Saddam Hussein was hung yesterday as a consequence for his murder of many innocent people. Steve Camp posted an excellent article on God’s requirement for justice and I reprint a few excerpts here:

But God “takes no delight” in Saddam’s death… Because at the moment of his last breath he entered everlasting perdition and now has knowledge of his torment; Read the rest of this entry »

SEATTLE - Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an environmental impact — Puget Sound is being flavored by cinnamon and vanilla. “Even something as fun as baking for the holiday season has an environmental effect,” said Rick Keil, an associate professor of chemical oceanography. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently the Hindu’s have had it with ‘Christians’ co-opting their religious practices. Unlike today’s emerging church, there is now a movement to retain the integrity of Hindu orthodoxy.

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My sister, my niece (APU current music major) and I were asked yesterday to sing a trio for the Christmas Eve service at our church on Sunday eveing. We have not sung together for some time and this was a new song so we needed practice, practice, practice. Read the rest of this entry »

Can you guess who said this?

“Some of my friends good-humoredly – and some a little bit severely – have called me a ‘mystic.’ Well I’d like to say this about any mysticism I may suppose to have. If an arch-angel from heaven were to come, and were to start giving me, telling me, teaching me, and giving me instruction, I’d ask him for the text. I’d say, ‘Where’s it say that in the Bible? I want to know.’ Read the rest of this entry »

It’sofficial: Political correctness makes people stupid, said Elizabeth Kantor of the Boston Globe. After interviewing 14,000 undergraduates at 50 colleges across the country, researchers from the University of Connecticut have determined that “seniors actually know less about American history and government than entering freshmen.” Read the rest of this entry »

As a testimony to the greatness of the baby boom generation, Yoko Ono has placed a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for December 8, the anniversary of John Lennon’s death, to be made a global day of healing. “One day we will be able to say that we healed ourselves,” promised Ono, “and by healing ourselves, we healed the world.”

Out Of Ur, the blogsite for Christianity Today, had a post today by Skye Jethani about Rick Warren’s celebration of World Aids Day. My response to that follows this quote from the article:

“I am amazed when Christians refuse to participate in the fight against the pandemic because others in the trenches don’t agree with them politically or theologically.”

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Lorri Jean, CEO of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, which recently launched an ad campaign built around the message, “HIV is a Gay Disease. Own it. End it,” said:

“In Los Angeles County, gay and bisexual men make up less than 7% of the population but account for more than 75% of the people living with HIV/AIDS … The men in our community continue to get infected at an alarming rate, continue to get sick, and continue to die. Most alarmingly, a new generation of young gay men has grown up accepting the epidemic as a community norm. That must change.”  Duh!

Washington, D.C. — Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League,
issued the following statement regarding the 2006 World AIDS Day:

“The United Nations has declared today World AIDS Day, with the focus
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