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Posted in Faith, Health, Humor, Humour, Psychology, Religion on Jan 12th, 2008
If you want to slim for Him, there are now plenty of programs, books, and DVDs to help you. Christian diets are now part of a multi-million dollar industry. Many are claiming that faith is providing the ingredients missing from traditional diet programs that tend to be universally discredited as inevitably failing and even [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jan 10th, 2008
I confess I have never been to Oxford, and have no personal interest in the city. However, I find myself writing about it for the fourth time in the past few months. It certainly seems to be hitting the news recently (see here and here and here).
The latest row has been caused by [...]
According to reports on newsnet5, thieves in Ohio stole a baby Jesus from a Christmas display in a resident’s front yard.
I suppose if you are of the view that the Christian faith is under attack in the West, the above theft could be seen as some kind of prophetic drama or parable.
Posted in Faith, Government, Religion, Society on Nov 14th, 2007
I read recently of someone working in the Thai Embassy who loved her job, not least because as well as being given British Public Holidays (some of which were Christian religious festivals) she was also given Thai public holidays. Imagine the appeal that that would have if legislation were introduced into the UK to grant people holidays [...]
The talking plastic Jesus recites three verses from the Bible - Mark 12:30, Mark 12:31 and John 3:16 - each lasting 11 seconds or less, as well as a 59-second telling of the feeding of the 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes. It stands 30cm (1ft) tall and has a chest circumference of 20cm (7.75in). [...]
Posted in Faith, Other Blogs, Politics, Religion, Society on Oct 15th, 2007
I am grateful to Libby Purves at Faith Central who brought this to my attention.
Libby writes:
“There is a basic law of media which says that if you are a beautiful woman with fantastic legs and very good hair, you will be given airtime to vent even the most naively offensive views. Step forward Ann Coulter, [...]
If you had a personal relationship with a divine being, wouldn’t you want to know what she or he wanted? I mean, how can you have a personal relationship if the other being doesn’t communicate - certainly theoretically possible (just about), but practically very difficult. I mean, I might need to know if God wants [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Aug 8th, 2007
The summer period marks an important anniversary for me. I used to be an evangelical Christian, and in the summer of 1966, I got ’saved’. I literally came out - I got up out of my seat in front of family and friends at a Billy Graham rally at the age of 13, and [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Aug 5th, 2007
In the early part of the sixteenth century, a man called Felix Manz was executed in Switzerland. He was a sincere Christian, and his only crime was that he held different views about baptism from those held by the sincere Christians in the local ruling authority. They chose drowning as a method of execution.
Aha, you [...]
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