http://hdlns.com/g1213 http://hdlns.com/rss_g1213.xml Religion en-us Aggregation copyright hdlns (dot com), articles copyright original authors. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9610za29034781/3rd+Annual+Vital+Church+Planting+Conference click here for the website http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9610za29034783/Failed+Stewardship+idea+%2317%3A++%27Ananias+%26+Sapphira+Sunday%27 Acts 5:  But a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property;  with his wife's knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet.  'Ananias,' Peter asked http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9610za29034782/Letter+from+the+Bishops+of++the+Ecclesiastical+Province+of+Rupert%27s+Land [ed note:  published with permission]Message to the Church in the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's LandGreetings in the name of the risen and ascended Lord, whose return in glory we await.We, the Bishops of the Province of Rupert's Land returned http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9677za29034690/Midstream One of the regular situations in my life comes around October or November, of just about every year I can remember.I get bored. I get tired. I get frustrated, and consider giving it all up and going on to something else - anything else. One year it e http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9530za29032776/Because+I%27m+So+Busy+I+Present+...+Hitching+a+Ride This is hypnotically entertaining whilst simultaneously bringing a smile to any animal lover's lips. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9530za29032775/Worth+a+Thousand+Words Clark GableOf course.Found at Mental Floss Blog where you can also find a list of 10 facts about Clark Gable. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9530za29032779/I+Keep+Seeing+References+on+Food+Blogs+About+to+How+To+Manage+a+Meatless+Th First of all, what are these people? Communists?Secondly, if a vegetarian can't find plenty of delicious vegetable dishes at a standard Thanksgiving feast then they're just not trying hard enough.Or not going to the right house. C'mon by ... we'll fi http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9530za29032774/Well+Said From my quote journal.I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.Madeleine Albright http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9530za29032778/I+opened+the+book+and+saw+... First a bit of context.Catholic Bibliophagist reviewed one of William L. Biersach's books featuring a Catholic priest solving murders. It sounded something out of the ordinary and our library didn't have anything by that author. Eventually I found a http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9530za29032777/An+Unexpected+Treat I got to sit next to my friend Heather last night in Scripture Study. I just don't get to see her enough (or ever, let's face it) so that was a real treat.It also reminded me that I don't think I have pointed y'all to her blog, The Practicing Catholi http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9629za29031700/The+difficult+peace+of+Christ Ekklesia and the London Mennonite Centre are advertising a seminar, "Threatened with resurrection" on the 26th. I shan't be travelling from Australia to attend (!), but the questions to be discussed are thought provoking as Advent approaches. (The S http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9780za29031693/Gratitude+Scripture+%234 Psalms 1001 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the shee http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9360za29031331/My+Toyota+experience http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9409za29031271/An+Unexpected+Sadness I was looking through some old stuff on my computer and I found this song that I wrote a few months ago... the lyrics made me sad. I remember liking it a lot because it was a good song, but it has died and moved on into the good song afterlife, or wh http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031264/No+Title Good for Bush!He's trying to protect freedom of conscience for health care people who don't want to be press-ganged into the abortion industry. Naturally, the media portrays it as evil. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031259/Hey+Spokane%21Check+out+the Hey Spokane!Check out the Gonzaga Socratic Club, modeled on the Oxford Socratic Club which C. S. Lewis participated in. The site has past talks recorded and copies of written stuff. Well worth the exploration, and for you Spokanites, well worth at http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031268/No+Title Tolerance is Not Enough. You. *MUST*. Approve.Gay marriage is about using the law to extirpate from the public square and punish those who disapprove of homosexual practice. Period. That's the goal. That's what it is all about. It is a movement p http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031263/No+Title Gay Community Labors to Undo Brown v. Board of EducationOf course, you could just address the bullying without creating a separate-and-more-equal-than-the-common-herd subculture sucking off the public teat. But that would not be in character for the http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031258/EvolutionOne+begins+to+suspect EvolutionOne begins to suspect that Benedict is the last sane person in the Church. Whenever he does his job (say, articulating the faith in the light of what the sciences and reason show us), you can always be sure there will be some yahoo from the http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031267/No+Title Ditch the Christians! Back to Rockefeller and the Good Solid Worship of Mammon!Because if there's one thing we can learn from McCain, it's that contempt for the base, discomfort with Judeo-Christian types, multiple wives, six houses, cheap theatrics http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031262/Journalism%2C+Never+Forget%2C+is+Largely+Done+by+People Journalism, Never Forget, is Largely Done by People Eager to *Appear* Instantly Conversant in the Matters They DiscussWhen my wife was growing up, one of the older kids in her family got wind somehow that something about sex was different after you g http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031266/Quirky+Japanese+Pranks Quirky Japanese Pranks http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031261/Human+Toothach Human Toothaches Hate Christmas, Annoy Normal People http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031270/My+La My Latest for the RegisterIn which we discuss the (still surprising to some) fact that everlasting damnation, pain, despair and the loss of God are not what Christ came to accomplish, any more than the jungle guide who warns 'Don't step there or you http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031265/No+Title It's bad enough that she lost the tools, leaving them to burn up in Israeli, Russian, North Korean or Iranian airspace and trigger a nuclear exchange that annihilates mankind... did she really have to go and be named Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper? http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031260/Me Meet the Flintsteins http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9518za29031269/My My Latest on Catholic ExchangeIn which we continue discussing St. Paul's approach to Spiritual Warfare. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29030004/American+Anglican+Council%3A+Equipping+the+Saints November 2008The American Anglican Council (AAC) has recently published a booklet showing TEC membership and attendance figures over the last five years, quotes from TEC leaders, reports on TEC litigation, and more. Below is an excerpt from the openi http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29030006/Matt+Kennedy%2B+interviewed+on+Family+Life+Network Wednesday, November 19, 2008I was interviewed yesterday on the Family Life Network which is, perhaps, the main Christian radio station in the Binghamton area. The three to five minute interview aired around noon yesterday and I hear that they have be http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29030005/Professor+Hired+for+Outreach+to+Muslims+Delivers+a+Jolt Islamic Theologian's Theory: It's Likely the Prophet Muhammad Never ExistedBy ANDREW HIGGINSNOVEMBER 15, 2008MÜNSTER, Germany -- Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany's first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29030003/Attorney+General+Asks+California+Supreme+Court+to+Rule+on+Prop.+8 Tuesday November 18, 2008By Kathleen GilbertSACRAMENTO, California, November 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a legal brief with the California Supreme Court requesting that the court swiftly settle thre http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9621za29030002/And+why+we+did+it Stuart commented with a question on the post below, concerning the Diocese of NY passing a resolution supporting the state's movement towards marriage equality. He askedWhen we were discussing the resolution, some wondered why there wasn't a parallel http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9401za29029636/Car+Crash+Journalism Art, the Daily Mail, and the culture of the car. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9379za29017235/Petition+Presented+to+the+Prophet+%28S%29 Sultan Abdul Aziz (rah) (d. 1876)  wrote a letter to the Prophet (S) and sealed and sent it to Madina to be placed at the Prophet’s tomb.  Preserved in the Apartments of the Holy Mantle (Istanbul), there is no record of how it was returned to http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9280za29017234/In+Review+-+R%27+Ephraim+Luft%27s+%27The+Torah+Is+Not+Hefker%27+Part+IV Moving on to Chapter Two, 'Quotes From Newspapers and Books On 'Rock and Roll''...In the first section of this chapter, Rabbi Luft brings many quotes from books and media condemning Rock and Roll. Most of these quotes are from the mid 1950's. Rabbi L http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9280za29017233/Off+The+Review+Stack%3A+Pitom%2C+Josh+Nelson%2C+Yitzy+Spinner%2C+Craig+Taubman%27s+Li Off the review stack...Yoshi Fruchter's PitomThis disc is composer/guitarist Yoshie Fruchter's debut recording on the Tzadik record label.This disc sounds as though members of The Ramones, Sonic Youth, and one lone violinist were the only ones to tu http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9598za29016614/Do+Not+Adjust+Your+Monitor I have finally decided to bite the bullet and redo my blog from a one-sidebar layout to a two sidebar layout. I've been wanting to do this for a while and finally figured out a HTML script that I liked for it that actually works well with blogger.com http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9284za29016611/Heading+for+a+fight A Guest Post by Rafi G.(originally posted on LII)As the government and the Supreme Court continue headstrong into their upcoming pre-election anti-right wing, anti-settler positions, they are heading into a serious clash in Hebron.Why this is so impo http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9284za29016613/Cell+Phones I don't see any reason for a 14 year old to have a cell phone. Cell phones are time-wasters, distractions, and can easily generate charges in excess of $100 per month. The typical teenager can't be expected to use one responsibly; also I didn't have http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9284za29016612/The+sort+of+thing+I+wish+I%27d+done+first Click(I sort of did) http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9678za29016033/Bonfires%3F I’m in the office this morning finishing up some things before heading out tomorrow for NYWC in Nashville, when I ran across this article.  We had a bonfire Sunday night at youth, and had one of our best attendances to date.  I’m just g http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9603za29015937/A+Night+with+Violins Last night I was invited by one of the professors here at Cambridge to an event at Madingley Hall, a small stately home kind of a place that's now a conference and events venue. The event was a bit hard to describe, but it was part lecture on the hi http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9427za29015796/Healthier+Coffee If you want a quick and easy way to less guilty coffee, consider switching from half and half to evaporated milk. It contains about the same number of calories, but is much lower in fat. You will be surprised at how creamy it is, and it is more nutri http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9682za29015352/2008+Blog+Awards+for+This+Blog%21 BW3 and Payne Stewart at Pinehurst No. 2.I am very pleased to announce that the Blogsperts that be have announced that this blog has been named one of the top five blogs having to do with the Bible and Religion, and this is based not merely on traffi http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9682za29015351/NT+Wright+on+the+Colbert+Report http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/174352/june-19-2008/bishop-n-t--wrightAnd here is another URL link for a fuller discussion by Wright about what he was discussing on the Colbert Reporthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA0NLb0pXGI-- http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9302za29015034/Trep%27s+Travel+Tips+%28part+I%29 [written in the departures lounge at the Chennai Airport] Here are some tips I've been meaning to share... so while I'm waiting for my flight to be called, I'll jot down as many as I can. Feel free to add... http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9534za29014791/Happy+Birthday+to+Us Korrektiv turns 4 today. (Not 5 as previously reported. Unless you count the 'lost year'.) http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9498za29014440/A+Life-Oriented+Catholic+Carnival This week's Catholic Carnival seems to have a lot of posts about 'life' - including pro-life issues and the need for evangelization. Check it out and get a taste of what some other bloggers write. .http://www.livingcatholicism.com/archives/2008/11/ca http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9639za29013508/Wednesday+Highlights Good morning. Wonderful news … with a picture. The part of the “really smug, err, smart” people takes one on the chin, here too. More seriously, sometime I’d like to hear a non-partisan argument why uniformed and uninterested http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9450za29012452/Reynolds+Price%3A+Eve+as+%27Hero%27+of+Paradise+Lost%3F Reynolds PriceTeacher of Milton(Image from Duke Magazine)Novelist, poet, and Miltonist Reynolds Price has written a short, personal piece of his experience of teaching Milton at Duke University since 1958, and in the penultimate paragraph, he makes http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9367za29010454/Al+Jazeera%3A+Counting+the+cost+of+US+healthcare+%5B%40+SUNY+Downstate%21%5D Source: Al Jazeera English Beyond reviving the US economy, many Americans are hoping a new US president can address problems with the country's health care system, where even the most common treatments are expensive, and private insurance is often http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9479za29009476/Real+Price+of+Gas+Approaches+Historic+Record-Low%3F Gas is now available in Kansas City for as low as $1.47 per gallon (updated), and the average retail price for gas is now $2.07 per gallon. Using real gas prices from the EIA (in November 2008 dollars), the chart... http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9479za29009475/Survey%3A+Megachurches+more+intimate%2C+believers+less+gullible Presbyterian Outlook: Survey: Megachurches more intimate, believers less gullible... For example: Are stereotypes about churches that have an average weekend attendance of more than 1,000 worshipers accurate?'We all know that megachurches have all so http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9479za29009474/Plane+to+monitor+Brazilian+tribes BBC: Plane to monitor Brazilian tribes The Brazilian authorities are to use a plane equipped with body-heat sensors to monitor uncontacted Indian tribes in the Amazon from a distance.Brazil has a policy of leaving such isolated indigenous groups in p http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9479za29009477/A+Grower%27s+Perspecitve+on+Fair+Trade+Coffee Several days ago Scot McKnight had a post about the merits of fair trade coffee. During the discussion that ensued, a commenter named Edwin Martinez offered his insights. Good stuff!Comment 24Disclaimer. As a third generation coffee grower I grew up. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9742za29008789/An+Open+Letter+to+Mitt+Romney Well Mitt, I recently read your piece in the New York Times about the auto industry.  It made so much sense Mitt!  Why would anyone try anything different.  The auto industry has mismanaged itself into the ground, becoming bloated and refusing to http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9461za29008386/Banish+Romans%3F So, I have this (nasty? beautiful?) habit of waking up in the middle of the night with a million questions running through my mind. Usually they concern what I'm currently working on, but this morning was different. I've taken to reading 'Monster J http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9297za29007301/In+which+don+feder+agrees+with+ira+forman via memeorandum Don Feder complains: If there was ever a year in which Jews should have been forced to reconsider their robotic loyalty to the Democratic Party, 2008 was it. The Democratic presidential candidate should have set off alarm bells in the http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9297za29007300/Redneck+orthodox+jews Rabbi Reuven Tradburks as 'Are we Jewish rednecks?' - referring to the Orthodox Jewish community - and effectively answers 'yes.' His point is that Orthodox Jews, overall, did not vote for President-elect Obama and he attributes that to a simplistic http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9693za29007218/Mini-Nuclear+Plants+to+Power+40%2C000+Homes (Image from hyperionpowergeneration.com) $25 million shed-size reactors will be delivered by truck. John Vidal and Nick Rosen, UK Guardian, 11-9-08.* Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale withi http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9452za29006484/Review+of+Campbell%27s+Basics+of+Verbal+Aspect This is a guest post by Dr. Carl Conrad, one of the moderators on B-Greek, and a Greek professor for many years. I was thinking about doing a review, but Dr. Conrad says essentially the same thing I would, only much better and in greater detail, with http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9459za29006284/No+Title THE JESUS PROJECT - a new Jesus Seminar, sort of:Scholars will investigate the Sources of the GospelAmherst, New York (November 17, 2008)--Following in the footsteps of the famed Jesus Seminar, scholars representing the cream of the crop in the field http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9459za29006283/THE+BIBLE%27S+BURIED+SECRETS+from+PBS+is THE BIBLE'S BURIED SECRETS from PBS is reviewed by Alan Boyle on the Cosmic Log.'The Bible's Buried Secrets,' premiering tonight on PBS, presents archaeological findings that will annoy believers as well as skeptics - which suggests the TV documentar http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9459za29006282/BOOK+REVIEW+%28one+of+Reform+Judaism%27s BOOK REVIEW (one of Reform Judaism's great gifts for Chanukah):Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz, illustratedby Caren Loebel-Fried(Oxford University Press, 618 pp., paperback $29.95)Is there a Jewish mythology? If myth refers http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9459za29006281/No+Title WEST BANK LOOTING continues relentlessly:Since the start of the second intifada, looters have overrun not just Khirbet Tawas but countless other archaeological sites that crowd the West Bank (map, opposite). Few jobs, inadequate law enforcement by bo http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9706za29006059/The+Perversion+of+the+Sodomites It's not what you think it is. In a comment at Payne Hollow, Monk-In-Training reminds us of God's priorities. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9706za29006060/Predestination+vs.+Free+Will+from+the+Perspective+of+Video+Game+Characters Free Will:Deviation(Video Link)Predestination: Video-Game Character Wondering Why Heartless God Always Chooses 'Continue' http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9472za29005821/A+Classical+Loser Nearing the end of my blogging gig and after a night where yet another cause that I cared deeply about met with dismal failure, I want to reflect today on losing and what it means.I've only been a pastor for about seven years and already I see a tren http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9629za29004974/Limits+to+Growth+and+keeping+out+of+the+caves In 1972, the seminal book The Limits to Growth by the Club of Rome presented some challenging scenarios for global sustainability, based on computer modeling of population, food production, industrial production, pollution, and the consumption of n http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9548za29004907/The+Seraphim The City of Angels is burning.We remotely watch thousands of people as they watch everything they own in the worldup in flames, completely torched, nothing left but dust and ashes.Watching the fires burn in the darkness recalls two very strange passa http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9548za29004906/How+Barack+Obama+Got+Elected People who followed the election won't be surprised by this.The anonymous commenters on this blog undoubtedly will be. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9429za29004823/Dishonest+money%3A+what+the+financial+crisis+tells+us+about+ourselves A guest-post by Scott Stephens (originally written for an Australian church newspaper)Credit is the lifeblood of the modern economy. It saturates our lives - from the personal credit we each use to purchase household items or to buy our homes, to the http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9720za29004006/Grateful+for+%2319%3A I am grateful for my dentist. No, I am not kidding! I may not have perfect teeth (far from it!) but I am grateful that I have had good dental care for the majority of my life. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9720za29004005/Bullets I saw the ISS tonight before my Bible Study.I didn't hit a deer, but I saw two by the side of the road.It was COLD tonight -- 26 degrees F.I saw gas for $1.76 a gallon. That would be $1.66 with my Kroger card. Wow!But gas is the only thing this wee http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9517za29002937/Shrinky+Dinks+for+Christ+the+King (Another installment of This Week with St. Paul)The last week of the Liturgical year is upon us and we're getting ready to honor Christ the King. This week's word is from St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians. The word is'reign' and it is situated on http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9533za29002920/A+Festival+of+Hope Visit Barry Michaels and his Festival of Hope for a dose of that always-needed theological virtue.Today's guest blogger is Mike Aquilina and if you go here you'll have a chance to win Mike's newest book, Signs and Mysteries, which I reviewed here. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9533za29002919/Buy+a+book%2C+help+a+family The 'Helping Those in Need' project is in full swing.Stop by to see what's for sale on the donation page here!Or, you may click on the 'Donate' page, and simply donate a dollar amount. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9533za29002918/A+No-Panic+Advent%2C+Part+II%3A+Note+some+dates November 30: First Sunday of AdventDecember 5: St. Nicholas Eve (very important that St. Nicholas not go to bed without remembering to do a few things first)December 6: St. Nicholas DayDecember 8: Immaculate Conception (Holy Day!)December 12: Ou http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001829/Half+of+UK+Anglican+clergy+will+be+women According to the Church of England's own projections, if present trends continue women will occupy nearly a quarter of all full-time posts by 2012.Wednesday, November 19, 2008By ENI A member of the (Anglican) Church of England's general synod who sup http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001833/Britain+Grapples+With+Role+for+Islamic+Justice By ELAINE SCIOLINONovember 18, 2008LONDON ' The woman in black wanted an Islamic divorce. She told the religious judge that her husband hit her, cursed her and wanted her dead.Men praying at a Shariah council in London. Islamic judges usually urge tr http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001828/Devotional%3A+Believe+God%27s+word+and+power... Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea. ...Samuel Rutherford image http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001832/Catholics+Who+Vote+for+Freedom+of+Choice+Act+Could+Face+Automatic+Excommuni Wednesday, November 19, 2008By Matt Hadro(CNSNews.com) - Catholic members of Congress who vote for the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) could face 'automatic excommunication' if the act is determined to be 'formal cooperation' in the evil of abortion.Whe http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001827/Will+the+Bishops+of+the+Traditional+Anglican+Communion+Spend+Easter+in+Rome By Deacon Keith Fournier11/18/2008Catholic Online'What I have heard that is public is that the TAC bishops have been invited to Rome 'en masse' for Easter.'DURHAM, England (Catholic Online) - Fr. Jeffrey Steel is a priest of the Church of England wit http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001831/First+transplant+of+a+grown-to-order+organ Mother-of-two becomes first transplant patient to receive an organ grown to order in a laboratoryBy Jeremy Laurance, Health EditorWednesday, 19 November 2008A 30-year-old Spanish woman has made medical history by becoming the first patient to receive http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001826/Plans+to+create+a+conservative+province+%27disturbing%2C%27+says+primate Leigh Anne Williamsstaff writerNov 18, 2008News of a plan to create a new North American Anglican province that would be defined by conservative theology rather than a geographic location may have been greeted with enthusiasm by delegates at the Angl http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001835/World%27s+Worst+Persecutor Will U.S. diplomatic shift and Graham visit help Christians?Ruth Moon11/18/2008The United States removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in October, but observers say Christians still have much to fear from its government. 'A http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001830/Canada%3A+Legal+fight+brews+over+St.+Aidan%27s Doug Williamson, Windsor StarWednesday, November 19, 2008The battle over scripture is escalating between two factions of the Anglican Church, with each claiming ownership of St. Aidan's on Wyandotte Street East.Rev. Tom Carman represents the 109 chur http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9665za29001834/The+abortion+president November 19, 2008Nat HentoffDuring a July 17, 2007, speech before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, then Sen. Barack Obama pledged: 'The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.' That is a bizarre way 'to bring us together http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9463za29001532/Epigraphica+Anatolica+%28Anatolian+Epigraphy%29+journal+articles+now+online Maybe this is old news to others, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the latest articles from Epigraphica Anatolica (EA; from 2003 to present) are available for free online at: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/EpAnat/index-web.html That http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9463za29001533/Angel-loving+association+cancelled+-+A+new+reading+of+an+often+cited+inscri The availability of the journal Epigraphica Anatolica online is already paying off!  There you will find a new article which has some notable repercussions not only for the study of associations in Asia Minor but also for the study of the opponents http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9279za29000792/Problems+Vs.+Issues+-+The+Use+Of+Language (Painting by Shoshanna Bauer)The Sudilkover Rebbe stopped me on two separate occasions in the midst of our conversations and suggested that I use the word 'issue' instead of the word 'problem'. The Rebbe explained that I was inadvertently training m http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9279za29000791/Dangerous+Consequences The shaliach tzibbur must be beloved by the congregation. If not, when he reads the Tochacha, there may be dangerous consequences for a congregant whom he dislikes. If he hates him, that congregant should not accept the aliya.(Shulchan Aruch HaRav 53 http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9702za29000776/Wyshina+Harris%2C+tragic+loss Last Saturday morning at about 7:00 a.m., Wyshina Harris, our dear friend and former team member here at Central Dallas Ministries was gunned down on her way to work. A wonderful person, a great mom, a hard working community leader, Wyshina Harris wa http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9685za29000702/There%3Fs+a+light Monastic Mumblings provides the first recorded use of The Rocky Horror Show for theological purposes. Kudos. http://hdlns.com/g1213zf9685za29000701/Obama+songs I know. This is hardly topical anymore. But I’m grateful to Big Circumstance for alerting me to the Irish O’bama song. Very funny. 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