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 nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those on earth is abolished. Ignatius of Antioch, to the Church at Ephesus (Ign., Eph. xiii)
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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 THE WINDOW OPEN during the administration of the poisonous chemicals and as the person is dying as well as after the person has been killed, as the medical professional verifies the death [...]
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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 capture he has been tortured and otherwise put through hell. The evidence against him has been discredited. He [...]
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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 of Hell: A Biblical & Theological Dialogue). On page 48 I came upon a very familiar statement that I just wanted to touch on. This has [...]
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