Mother’s Day is today in the US. Some countries and cultures have it on different dates, as they have different origins. In the US, Mother’s Day is sometimes disparaged as a “Hallmark Holiday” due to its commercialization. Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day in the US, was so appalled…
It seems that Stephen Hawking believes that “Humans Should Fear Aliens” in a story in the Huffington Post, via COG-FF’s website. He states that aliens might come to plunder our resources. That is not the only bleakness in his interview, either. He believes that human beings must colonize space or…
Seth Godin wrote on Seth’s Blog an article about "The problem with cable news thinking". I am pleased that he doesn’t single out one side or the other in his commentary, as all political persuasions seem to be guilty of it. It should come as no shock to you that…
In my previous article “UCG General Conference of Elders Sabbath Webcast”, I wrote, Melvin Rhodes’ “assertion that much of the work in recent decades has been carried on by a centralized funded effort is not without merit. As far as what would occur if the US suffered such a calamity…
I have mentioned before that many COG interpretations of the Church at Laodicea in Rev 3 are somewhat off-base. Many speak of lukewarmness in terms of zeal, particularly as towards zeal to preach the Gospel. However, that is not what Christ is talking about. As I’ve mentioned in the “Temperature…
“If only I could know. If only there were more evidence.” How many times have you heard these statements or ones similar? Seth Godin published an article on Seth’s Blog that “Too much data leads to not enough belief”. His point is that you gather data and then more data,…
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There’s a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same. And…
On the UCG members website, they have put up the “Sabbath Webcast – General Conference of Elders" for services earlier today. Melvin Rhodes gave the sermon “Go Ye Therefore Into All the World”. Rhodes tends to give very informative and fact-filled sermons, especially when he talks about prophecy. I liked…
David Pack is trying to pick the low hanging fruit from the recent churn at UCG, and he’s posted “An Open Letter to the United Church of God". Recently, I was joking with someone about being getting kicked out of church, and the response was, “What? There are 400 different…
Yesterday and today were rather hectic. Actually, a lot more than hectic, but I’ll spare you the details. With everything going on, I’ve been burning the candle on both ends. I actually wasn’t going to post anything at all today, but then this came up. Roy Holladay posted a “Pre-Sabbath…