Saturday, May 12 was Madeleine McCann’s fourth birthday. If the name sounds vaguely familiar, it is because the little girl’s story has been featured on news outlets all over the world. The child was taken from her parents’ holiday apartment in
Portugal on May 3, 2007. The story is heartbreaking, and we who sit so [...]
Prayers for Madeleine
let’s magnify our love
In 2003, three college students from San Diego went to Uganda to make a documentary film, and they found tens of thousands of people affected by the longest running war in Africa. (To see a very similar situation, watch Hotel Rwanda) The Lord’s Resistance Army has abducted thousands of children, subjected them to torture or [...]
A Violent Necessity: Part Deux
Comment by fitnessfortheoccasion on April 17, 2007 11:29 pm War is sometimes necessary, but that cannot mask how utterly counter-productive the so called war on terror has been.Those “eggs” marcelonicus refers to are human lives. Human lives lost. Human lives ruined by displacement, torture, and violence without end.Do not try to stoop to religion to [...]
A Violent Necessity
Are there times when war is a must? If you ask the Bible, the answer is ‘absolutely.’ Pose the question to History: ‘clearly and without a doubt.’ Now turn to a fellow American in, say,
New York City. He is likely to vehemently shake his head and cry, ‘War is never the answer!’ It seems [...]
…Erasing History…
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263146,00.html
So it seems that there are many history teachers that are taking it upon themselves to not teach their students any controversial history lessons like the Holocaust and the Crusades. This is because they “do not want to cause offence to children for certain races or religions.” Yeah, that is right! You read it correctly. [...]
The un-funny truth about Mormonism
Growing up in a Christian school my entire life I have studied fundamentalist Christianity at least 5 hours a week for the last 12 years. It dates back to the simple memorization of verses, and feltboard Jesus stories. Then as I progressed in years I learned of Islam and other world religions. They were taught [...]
The Older We Are the More Complicated
How many of you have ever sat down and though about your childhood. Thought how glorious it was to be ignorant. Do you remember the unfathomable “walk to school” when we were kids, that is now really a short walk in our adulthood. Do you ever find yourself missing that walk to school. Missing the [...]
