Terrorism. Middle East unrest. Earthquakes. Corruption in high places. The world news is filled with stories like these, and they seem to be escalating. What will it take to stop them? Herbert W Armstrong used to use the phrase “a strong arm from somewhere” to describe what was needed to…
Let’s see, which is more important: Kate Middleton having lunch or a news story of international economics that changes the landscape of the stock market? Which would you choose? Well, if you judge by the time spent on each story, you’d certainly think it was Kate Middleton. It’s bad enough…
A lot of media focus has been upon Egypt lately with the civil unrest and the eventual stepping down of President Hosni Mubarak. There is good reason for concern. However, what the US news media seems to gloss over, if they mention it at all, is that the unrest didn’t…
Ronald Reagan would have been 100 years old on 6 February if he were still alive. There has been much in the news about him, but this morning I learned a few things myself. Did you realize that Woodrow Wilson was a “five point Calvanist”? FDR was still an elder…
One of the things that started me questioning what was really going on was the “Sabbath paper”. Subsequent to that, I had 2 comments that were either removed or not published on the Inside United: Realtime blog, which got me scratching my head even harder. You might recall one of…
Just saw this on MSN: Myanmar’s Suu Kyi is free – World news – Asia-Pacific – msnbc.com
According to MSNBC.com, “Crystal Cathedral files Chapter 11 bankruptcy". This isn’t the first report, though, of them falling on hard times. I have to admit that I have never cared much for Robert Schuller (the older one), but my aunt used to think the world of him and his “positive…
Frankly, I admire the courage of the pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas to say what’s on his mind. I wonder how many threats against his life will be made by the fringes of such a “peaceful religion”. The problem is that Mohammed himself supported violence, hatred, killing, even lying…
While some are fasting today, doing without food, perhaps it is a good time to reflect upon what else we can do without. Crass materialism is still with us, in spite of a somewhat lengthy recession. However, the admonition has always been that spending is good for our overall economy,…
In this week’s weird religious news, “IHOP (the pancake-maker) sues IHOP (the prayer center) over trademark”. Apparently, International House of Pancakes has 6 registered trademarks using the IHOP acronym, and it feels that the International House of Prayer is infringing on those trademarks by knowing it too would be called…