Posts from the ‘Politics and Current Events’ Category

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  Joplin tornado: Who ya gonna call?

  May 24th, 2011 | Current events, Just a slice of heaven, Videos worth sharing | Grace | 23093 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fjoplin-tornado-who-ya-gonna-call%2FJoplin+tornado%3A+Who+ya+gonna+call%3F2011-05-24+18%3A47%3A11Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2309

  Had some friends who weren’t sure, so I’ll assure any­one out there who’s con­cerned: Our part of Mis­souri didn’t get blown away in Sunday’s tor­na­dos. Joplin is hours away from us, and — as it so hap­pened — Greg and I were in Con­necti­cut, so the wind would’ve had to REALLY be some­thing for us […]

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  Save the date: Rapture will come Saturday

  May 16th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Politics and Current Events, The looming crisis, Uncategorized | Grace | 23056 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Funcategorized%2Fsave-the-date-rapture-will-come-saturday%2FSave+the+date%3A+Rapture+will+come+Saturday2011-05-16+19%3A31%3A46Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2305

  Accord­ing to 89-year-old evan­gel­i­cal Harold Camp­ing, all the faith­ful will be Rap­tured at 6pm on Sat­ur­day, May 21. Seems like news you could use, if only to make the appro­pri­ate deci­sions re: dessert & alco­hol con­sump­tion on Fri­day.  Camp­ing has used “com­plex math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­las” to arrive at that date — they’re the same for­mu­las that […]

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  Happy 63rd birthday, Israel

  May 14th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2303No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fhappy-63rd-birthday-israel%2FHappy+63rd+birthday%2C+Israel2011-05-14+22%3A35%3A59Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2303

  Today, May 14, is the 63rd anniver­sary of the “rebirth” of Israel. After all the thou­sands of years since the nation was first founded, it is still a rev­o­lu­tion­ary place. Men­tion­ing the word “Israel” is enough to get you into debates in some cir­cles and to hear his­toric (some­times ancient) hero­ics or mis­deeds invoked as […]

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  Mourning one who left intelligence behind

  May 2nd, 2011 | Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 22703 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fmourning-one-who-left-intelligence-behind%2FMourning+one+who+left+intelligence+behind2011-05-02+17%3A02%3A03Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2270

  If you’ve been exult­ing over the news that Osama bin­Laden was killed, wel­come to the club. If you’ve then felt a twinge over exult­ing over the death of any human, join the club. Though he orches­trated the death of thou­sands and wanted to kill tens of thou­sands more, some of the expres­sions of cel­e­bra­tion at […]

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  “Cross & Switchblade” author crosses over

  April 28th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 22546 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fcross-switchblade-author-crosses-over%2F%22Cross+%26+Switchblade%22+author+crosses+over2011-04-28+02%3A25%3A37Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2254

  Well, I’ll be darned. Just read on RightWire that Pas­tor David Wilk­er­son (“The Cross and the Switch­blade”) died in a car crash. He was 79, so it’s not like he didn’t have a full life, but that still seems like a loss. I know he got a lit­tle nutty some­times, but I’ve never for­got­ten that […]

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  White House on Easter: The silence was deafening

  April 26th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Political circus | Grace | 2244No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fwhite-house-on-easter-the-silence-was-deafening%2FWhite+House+on+Easter%3A+The+silence+was+deafening2011-04-26+05%3A12%3A31Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2244

  Via Medi­aite: I think I may have just dis­lo­cated my shoul­der from cring­ing too hard. In what is one of the most awk­ward White House press brief­ings I’ve yet seen, White House Press Sec­re­tary Jay Car­ney some­how man­ages to say both not enough and entirely too much. White House Press Sec­re­tary Jay Car­ney was asked why […]

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  Christians targeted in Nigeria

  April 26th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2242No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fchristians-targeted-in-nigeria%2FChristians+targeted+in+Nigeria2011-04-26+04%3A48%3A55Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2242

  Via Chris­t­ian Post More than 60 churches were burned and thou­sands of Christian-owned homes destroyed in Nigeria’s pre­dom­i­nantly Mus­lim north after the recent elec­tion of incum­bent Chris­t­ian pres­i­dent Good­luck Jonathan, accord­ing to the Chris­t­ian per­se­cu­tion watch­dog group Open Doors. Riots broke out Mon­day after the pre­lim­i­nary results of Saturday’s vote were announced. Jonathan, who was sworn in […]

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  Thinking about civility and Orthodox centrism

  March 9th, 2011 | Orthodox perspective, Political circus | Grace | 16697 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Forthodox-perspective%2Fthinking-about-civility-and-orthodox-centrism%2FThinking+about+civility+and+Orthodox+centrism2011-03-09+23%3A14%3A30Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fthinking-about-civility-and-orthodox-centrism%2F

  Recently, talk of civil­ity has been in the news. It’s also some­thing I’ve heard Ortho­dox friends bemoan. Too much shrill­ness, not enough man­nerly dia­logu­ing. That’s right, of course, when it comes to things that don’t really mat­ter. But the closer you get to the front lines, the louder the noise gets. It is true that […]

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  Lessons from Exodus about Egypt

  February 13th, 2011 | Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 16553 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Flessons-from-exodus-about-egypt%2FLessons+from+Exodus+about+Egypt2011-02-13+20%3A39%3A31Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Flessons-from-exodus-about-egypt%2F

  Why didn’t I think of that? Bruce Feiler, the author of “Walk­ing Through the Bible”** found “6 Lessons from the Bible for Egypt Today.” Those include: The peo­ple rarely suc­ceed on the first try The leader has hench­men The peo­ple have pow­ers, too and this one that I liked: 4. The leader will harden his heart. But still pharaoh resists. […]

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  Astrology’s Old Calendar/New Calendar debate

  January 15th, 2011 | Culture gone mad, Current events, Pop goes the culture | Grace | 16468 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-gone-mad%2Fastrologys-old-calendarnew-calendar-debate%2FAstrology%26%23039%3Bs+Old+Calendar%2FNew+Calendar+debate2011-01-15+20%3A47%3A09Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fastrologys-old-calendarnew-calendar-debate%2F

  If you don’t fol­low mat­ters relat­ing to astrol­ogy, you might have missed this big storm brew­ing amongst those airy, herbal-tea-drinking folk. But it’s actu­ally kind of an inter­est­ing col­li­sion of their beliefs and a lit­tle hard sci­ence. And it might just give them the kind of schism that we Ortho­dox know all too much about […]

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