A few nights ago I held a little mini bible study with the kids in regards to something that is very close to my heart right now: spiritual warfare and battling in the spirit. If you are not a Christian what I am about to share might not have any meaning to you. If you […]

Compass Direct News reports that:

A longstanding effort to replace a church with a mosque in Kenya’s northern town of Garissa culminated in an attack by 50 Muslim youths this month that left the worship building in ruins.
The gang stormed the building of Redeemed Gospel Church on Sept. 14 and pelted the congregation with stones, sending […]

Despite the relative calm and void of terrorist attacks on US soil, we are nonetheless a Nation at war. We all must remain vigilent and report anything, as a DHS agent said in a recent presentation that I attended, that “Doesn’t Look Right.” I some circles, a rumor of an attack on October 7 2008 […]

Ave Maria Meditations: St. Francis on the Blessed Sacrament (October 4th)

St Francis had such an immeasurable love for the Blessed Sacrament. He understood this sublime Mystery as few others. He exhorted his friars to have the greatest possible reverence for the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, together with His Holy Name and […]

The bombing outside the U.S. Embassy in Yemen is instructive for its scale and apparent failure to do anything but kill Yemeni civilians. It was certainly not a game-changing event like the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and certainly not on the scale of the 2000 USS Cole bombing. There is nothing to […]

Il s’agit ici d’un condensé de huit petits billets (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8) que j’ai consacrés il y a quelque temps à un arrêt que si peu de gens concernés semblent avoir lu qu’il mérite bien une reprise.
Le 21 mai dernier, donc, la 11e Chambre de la Cour d’appel de Paris déboutait Charles Enderlin et France 2 […]

The Emir’s Clock in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fifth Annual Collection: A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. [Synopsis from Fictionwise]

I’m currently reading John Howard Yoder’s seminal The Politics of Jesus, and there are many times when I could have posted excerpts. Yoder discusses how modern ethical theory is obsessed with first defining the meaning of history and then grabbing the right handle to move it in (what we have identified as) the right direction. […]

[Published July 15, 2008, in the Providence Journal]
WASHINGTON - Pakistan has denied the Afghan government’s insinuation that its military intelligence had masterminded the suicide blast that killed 41 people at the Indian Embassy in Kabul. If Pakistani military elements had indeed engineered the bombing of at the Indian facility, I would suspect that they […]

Pastor Steve on John 1:1-14. John tells us that Jesus brings life that is the light of all people. What does that mean in a world so afflicted by darkness? What does it mean in our own lives? How can we have that light in our own lives? Listen and find out!