RSS FeedPRAYING FOR THE WOUNDED AND BEREAVED IN SAN BERNANDINO, CALIFORNIA AND FOR AN END TO MUSLIM VIOLENCE
Heavenly Father, we grieve with those who have lost loved ones, and have been severely disabled by the tragic events of this past week. All of a sudden, politics and foreign conflict, the stock market and taxes are displaced by dangers closer to home. Our first...
CHRISTMAS GIFT TO FEED THE SOUL, MIND AND HEART
SOUL FOOD Daily Devotions for the Hungry 365 readings for the year in four quarterly volumes is once again available as a gift set. The books come bundled with a bow and placed in a festive gift bag. Just $40.00 per set (a 33% discount) A great Christmas gift. To...
THE 33
On August 5, 2010 a mine shaft caved in at a depth of nearly 1,000 feet in the San Jose mine, 500 miles north of Santiago in Chile. Thirty three miners were trapped below. The recently released movie “The 33” is the story of these Chilean miners who spent 69 days...
WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF THE SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS REMEDY?
RACHEL MCADAMS The movie Spotlight, directed by Thomas McCarthy, is a masterly portrayal of the Boston Globe team that investigated the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan cover-up of sexual abuse amongst its clergy. It stars Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Michael Keaton,...
WORLD CHRISTIAN LEADER ON ISLAMIC PERSECUTION
In an interview with www.virtueonline.org the Rev. Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity expressed his belief that Islamic State wants the destruction of Christianity and the West. Their interpretation of Islam is...
HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR OURSELVES AND OUR WORLD THREATENED BY TERRORISM?
In the light of the Paris terrorists attacks I have used the following prayers. Almighty God, Lord of all peoples and nations on the earth, Whose power no one is able to resist, and who can turn evil to good. Save and deliver us, we humbly pray, from the hands of...
SUFFRAGETTE
My wife and I went to see the movie SUFFRAGETTE. It is a powerful presentation of the movement to win voting rights for women in Great Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. Carey Mulligan plays the lead role of a working class mother who became involved in the...
WHAT ARE THE LIMITS AND DANGERS OF MODERN MEDICINE TO THE TERMINALLY ILL AND THEIR FAMILIES?
Atul Gawande, surgeon, author and public health researcher, in his recent book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, argues that the reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and deny...
WHAT PLAYING RUGBY TAUGHT ME
Last Saturday New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup by defeating Australia. This makes New Zealand the first country to win three times. The newspapers and commentators opined on why this small nation of 4.5 million in the South Pacific should be so successful at this...
WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?
There is a television commercial for a credit card that concludes with the question: “What’s in your wallet?” I fished out my wallet and looked inside. I found that I carried two prayers. One is from Ephesians 3:14-19 and the other is from a hymn, written by Ada...
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