It is sometimes said of Canadian evangelist, writer and politician Charles Templeton that he ‘lost his faith’, in the way people will simplify to categorise human experience, yet he spent his whole life searching for truth and serving others, leaving behind a legacy of long life-ministry: his Bible: everything Jesus said and did and many books, speeches and interviews. His 1995 [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Charles Templeton, man of faith
Posted in People on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pregnant children: just like old times…
Posted in Current events on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This month a state district judge in San Angelo ordered into state custody 462 children from a West Texas compound run by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, no connection with the larger ‘Mormon’ LDS Church. CPS staff are concerned that the sect requires underage girls to marry older men. 16 is [...]
Not so wise
Posted in Beliefs on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an email magazine today from one of Billy Graham’s ministries, an online community called Today’s Christian Woman, this was on the front page:
Today’s Verse from the New Living Translation
But a wise woman in the town called out to Joab, “Listen to me, Joab. Come over here so I can talk to you. …””I am one [...]
Off we go then…
Posted in People on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do your people differ so much about it? Why are you not all agreed, since you can all read the Book?
~ Sogoyewapha “Red Jacket”
Seneca tribe circa 1750- 1830
