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Posted by admin | Feb 28th, 2010
The Bible Slam: Deuteronomy Chapter 3
Moses' speech about all the people he and his people killed with God's blessing continues. He recounts the victory over Og, King of Bashan, a giant who had a great big huge iron bed that was over 13 feet long. The land of Bashan was a land filled with giants, according to this chapter.
Moses will not be able to cross the Jordan River, but Joshua will do so.
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Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Father Jonathan Morris Claims Spirituality Cannot Exist Without Religion
People between the ages 18 and 29 are shunning organized religion, but continue to believe in God. Father Jonathan Morris gives his take about the phenomena on Fox News.
He says that searching with an open heart is good, but claims that there is no such thing as genuine spirituality without religion.
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Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Rev. Samuel Responds to Trent Franks' Comments on Slavery
Reverend Kenneth Samuel, Vice Chair of People For the American Way Foundation's African American Ministers Leadership Council, responds to comments by Congressman Trent Franks.
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Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Can Religion Be Bad for Your Health?
Clay Routledge, an assistant professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University, writes for Psychology Today that religion can be bad for your health. He points to three factors:
Religion can be stressful when beliefs are at odds with facts;
Religion can direct people away from traditional medical treatment; and
Religion can be a form of avoidant coping.
Routledge noted in a previous article how religion...
Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Ugandan Gays Fight For Their Lives
With the support of the Ugandan Unitarian Universalist Church and Austria Foundation, a clandestine group of 100 persons met in secret to determine how they would deal with the anti-homosexuality act being considered by Uganda's parliament. The act proposes the death penalty and/or life imprisonment for gays and lesbians. Two Americans, Episcopal minister Rev. Patricia Ackerman of New York City and...
Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
The March Against Hate
Joe Zamecki shared videos of yesterday's March Against Hate that took place in Austin. He writes:
The rally for the Austin March Against Hate took place on Saturday, February 27, 2010. This was in response to a violent attack and beating that took place the weekend before. Two gay men walked from Oilcan Harry's bar to their car a few blocks away, when they were brutally beaten by four unknown assailants....
Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Religious News Verses: Destruction, Lawsuits and Godless and Godly Education
Pat Robertson thinks that God is even more angry with Chile than Haiti and that in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake, he is "praying that the people of Chile will heed this warning, and never again blaspheme against God and international free-market commerce by nationalizing their most precious natural resources."
The Catholic Church has sued the producers of the movie, 2012, for showing...
Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Right Wing Christians Have a Fit Over Obama Administration Meeting with Non-Believers, Statistical Perspective
The "nones" — that is, people with no religious affiliation, are a growing cultural dynamic in the United States. According to Gallup, 13% of Americans are "nones." This is a significant percent of the population. Gallup broke down the percentages of belief across the country in mid-2009:
54% – Protestants and other Non-Catholic Christian denominations
24% – Catholics
13%...
Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 28th, 2010
Astrology the Cause of Climate Change, in SD Schools
The South Dakota legislature unanimously passed a resolution urging all of its state schools to to teach alternative explanations for climate change. The state legislature says that schools should teach that global warming is a scientific theory, not a scientific fact, and that there are a variety of "climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics"...
Posted by admin | Feb 28th, 2010
The Tabernacle, the Priesthood and the Offerings
The Tabernacle the Priesthood and the Offerings
This exhaustive, richly suggestive treatment is a classic in its field. Twenty-one illustrations based on s in the Old Testament and archaeological discoveries.
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5 Stars Outstanding work
The author was very detailed in the images and types that are associated with the Tabernacle. It is a very good book to use as a teaching and study...
Posted by admin | Feb 28th, 2010
Unfinished Business – Returning the Ministry to the People of God
Unfinished Business Returning the Ministry to the People of God
An updated, expanded revision of a classic resource showing how we are in the midst of a radical shift from church as institution to church as organism in which ministry is being returned to the people.
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5 Stars A Quality Book
This is a book that I will keep in my library. It is a must for every Pastor and laypersons...
Posted by admin | Feb 28th, 2010
Clericalism – The Death of Priesthood
Clericalism The Death of Priesthood
As members of the church, Wilson maintains, we are all responsible for creating a clerical culture and for that culture's transformation. Clericalism aids this transformation by helping us examine some underlying attitudes that create and preserve destructive relationships between ordained and laity. After looking at the crisis and establishing where we are now,...
Posted by admin | Feb 27th, 2010
The Bible Slam: Deuteronomy Chapter 02
Moses continues with his drawn out speech about wars that the Israelites won. There's a bunch of talk about giants and bragging about the God's helping them to "utterly destroy the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain."
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Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 27th, 2010
New Atheists Created In Part by the Religious Right
In this brief video conversation, Os Guinness, author and founder of the Trinity Forum, suggests that the Religious Right might have largely created the current culture war that has science and faith as its core antagonists. He also opines that the "New" Atheists are the result, at least in part, of the actions of the Religious Right.
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Posted by themanofearth | Feb 27th, 2010
Utah's Miscarriage to Murder
Ok. We're all used to crazy things coming out of Utah when it comes to politics and religion (Mormons?) but this takes the cake. The Utah State Legislature proposed this law recently Criminal Homicide and Abortion Amendments under the leadership of Carl Wimmer.
Utah's Miscarriage to Murder (meant to be in a window)
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Editor's Note: Some background on this can be found here.
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Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 27th, 2010
President Gaddafi Calls for Jihad Against Switzerland
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called for jihad (holy struggle) against Switzerland for voting to ban the construction of minarets last November. A top UN official said Gaddafi's call was "inadmissible" in the framework of international relations.
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Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 27th, 2010
Ice Geysers Discovered on One of Saturn's Moons
A NASA probe captured photos of ice geysers erupting into space on one of Saturn's moons. Dr. Michio Kaku, host of Sci-Fi Science, explains that this could be indicative of possible life and/or vast oceans of water existing under the surface of some of Saturn's moons. He said that the geysers point to a new energy source.
Mars is not the only game in town anymore, when it comes to water and possible...
Posted by God Discussion Reporter | Feb 27th, 2010
Kentucky Senate Approves Bible Class Bill
The Kentucky Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that would offer Bible courses throughout the state's public schools. The classes would be elective.
The bill now goes to the House.
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