I really enjoy J.D.’s blog, “Get Rich Slowly” (GRS). I used to visit there every day, but things have been a little crazy lately. GRS is a top-notch blog, and I recommend it to anyone trying to get a handle on their finances. Whenever I think of “professional blog”, I…
The headlines are oddly mixed. The Bangkok Post writes, “Iran welcomes Obama’s olive branch”, yet even within it we read: “We welcome the wish of the president of the United States to put away past differences,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s press adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr said in reaction to Obama’s message…
Answers In Genesis has an article on “Johan Huibers and His Ark” that is rather fascinating. Mr Huibers built a replica of Noah’s Ark in the Netherlands. It is quite huge, but the surprising thing is that it is only half the size of the one depicted in the Bible!…
The AP reports that a record number of babies were born in the US in 2007. Furthermore, “births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago.” According to a leading fertility researcher at Duke, S. Philip Morgan, it has become more…
Daniel 11 gives an account of 2 political powers that struggle with each other down through history. It starts with the Empire of Alexander the Great, whose empire was split into 4 powers after his death (vv3-4). Eventually, 2 of these powers dominate. One was called the “King of the…
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh…
In “Bonus furor may prompt limits on AIG bailout money”, AP Philip Elliot writes: President Barack Obama and his top aides expressed outrage at reports that American International Group Inc. went ahead with $165 million in bonuses even though the company received more than $170 billion in federal rescue money….
For the first time, Pope Benedict has directly addressed condom use. The AP reports, “Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with…
And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. …And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. …And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and…
Two articles caught my eye this past week. Neither of them really portends good things, IMO. The 1st was reported by COG Writer on 11 March. Robert Thiel commented on a Christian Science Monitor article titled “The coming evangelical collapse” by Michael Spencer. Let’s face it: Most “evangelicals” couldn’t articulate…