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Apparently, according to the Internet, there really is such a thing as Dry January. Perhaps it began for many as a New Year’s Resolution. Having imbibed a little too freely over the holidays, some made a determination to do without alcohol for the entire month of January. To be
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Back in the '80s a fifth-grade class did not like the teacher. They started coming forward and claiming sexual misconduct on his part. He was suspended because everyone knows that kids wouldn't lie about something so serious. However, they had. Eventually the teacher was exonerated but
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Dwight Friesen is a part of the "emerging church" movement, and these are his comments about churches in the Seattle area when he moved there: "We also visited fifty churches in the first year. The most discouraging aspect was that they were all the same…. The music
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Preface This article is in no way to be considered anti-immigration or anti-immigrant. This writer and others spent at least five years singing patriotic songs at court house naturalization ceremonies to welcome immigrants as they became official United States\current. One of our members is currently teaching English
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Doubleday published in 2017 Dan Brown’s (whom we’re calling Brand Now by scrambling the letters in his name [he likes that]) new book, which is titled briefly Origin. So far we have noticed that he plays fast and loose with facts, giving the reader impressions that are not
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Having looked at some of the insulting and disparaging statements made about Christianity and the Bible in Brand Now's brand new book, Origin (#2 last week on the best seller's list), it is time for a look at his evolutionary statements, which are just about as
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In the fictional Origin (see the inside article), people respond to a televised speech both in favor of it and in opposition to it. Someone posts the comment, "Religion cannot claim morality as its own . . . I am a good person because I am a good person! God has nothing
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This time around we are calling Dan Brown Brand Now. He likes symbols, puzzles, and word scrambles, as evidenced by his former best seller, The DaVinci Code, which was reviewed in Spiritual Perspectives (see April 30, May 7, and May 14, 2006 on the spiritualperspectives.org website). Another of Brown\
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Lee Strobel is well known as an atheist who became a "Christian." He has since that time written a number of books, some of which are listed below. The Case for Christ The Case for Faith The Case for a Creator The Case for the Real Jesus The
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The glam rock group, Poison, had several Top Ten Hits from 1985-1990, including "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Talk Dirty to Me." No, this is not an endorsement of them or their music. Scott Shannon plays a few of the top songs from the
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The name of Pelagius has usually been associated with heresy. Was he a heretic for advocating free will? The controversy can best be understood by beginning with Augustine of Hippo (a town in modern-day Algeria, according to William J. Bennett’s book, Tried By Fire). This theologian is sometimes
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Anyone reading Bill Bennett’s 2016 book, Tried by Fire (see the article on the front page, "Why Is Baptism Omitted?") could easily come away confused because of the conflicting descriptions and comments he makes regarding the organization of the church. For example, he correctly writes that at