Daily Archives 30 June 2009

Frequent and harmonious meetings

30 June 2009 Early Church, Nonviolence  No comments

Therefore make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is

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Keeping the death chamber windows open

30 June 2009 Torture  No comments

This letter from Sister Helen Prejean is positively stellar. Writing to the California Department of Corrections on a recent proposal, she made wonderfully and graphically clear how depraved we can be as humans. She urged California to
KEEP

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Christians: take a stand! Torture must stop!

30 June 2009 Torture  No comments

Mohammed Jawad was captured in Kabul and given over to the US forces in 2003. At the time he was around 14 years young. And this is what the US has done to him:
What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his

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The debate over hell continues

30 June 2009 Theology  No comments

Thanks to the help of a brother I've been reading through Edward Fudge's The Fire That Consumes. No, I don't need help reading; he's graciously allowed me to borrow the book (he's also let me borrow the Fudge and William Peterson dialogue, Two Views

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