In the administration and in policy circles, a tricky problem: addressing the possibility that Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies hurt America.
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Washington Asks: What to Do About Israel?
Fans of the Newsboys will get to hear the first full-length album with new singer Michael Tait on July 13, when Born Again is officially released as the band’s 15th studio project. Its first single is available for download on iTunes and has been a chart-topper two weeks in a row
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Music: Newsboys putting up walls — in a good way
Mark 12: 35-37 2 Tm 3: 10-17 / Ps 119: 157, 160-161, 165-166, 168 David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, proclaimed, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.’ (Mark 12:36) In my devotion, never tire To love Your precepts and decrees, Lord, this is but my sole desire, So
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The Power of Scriptures
Wednesday June 2nd was amazingly informative about the state of affairs in the Anglican Communion. The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Bishop Katharine, wrote a pastoral letter that was graceful, theologically sound and clear in its implications for the life of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote Pentecost Letter, in which he either suggests or by right as appointing officer orders that members of The Episcopal Church serving on ecumenical dialogue groups for the Anglican Communion withdraw from full membership.
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Bishop Katharine writes a pastoral letter. Anglican Communion office opens twitter shop
Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said Wednesday that he will launch a new church from his Colorado Springs home, 3 1/2 years after he resigned from his ministry amid an embarrassing and devastating sex scandal. Haggard said he doesn’t know how many people will attend his new church, but he said the ordeal he and his wife, Gayle, went through has prepared them to help others.
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Ted Haggard to start new church in Colo. Springs
A “profoundly vulnerable” wheelchair-bound disabled woman was told she would die a horrible death unless she handed her life savings to doomsday cult leader Rocco Leo. The startling claims have surfaced during civil action launched by Silvia Melchiorre, 37, against Leo and senior members of Agape Ministries, Joe and Marie Antoinette Veneziano.
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Cult leader Rocco Leo told disabled woman that cash would save her
Prepare to be gobsmacked : BP’s safety violations far outstrip its fellow oil companies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97 percent of the “egregious, willful” violations handed out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ..
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Seven Hundred Sixty
by Phillip Luke Sinitiere Ted Haggard , whose ministerial career seemingly ended amidst a gay sex scandal is 2006, is back in the news. The former minister of New Life Church, and former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, announced today that he and his family have organized a new congregation in Colorado Springs: Saint James Church . It is likely the church takes its name from the New Testament epistle of James, a book that encourages perseverance in the midst of trials.
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Ted Haggard and Saint James Church
A number of former employees of the church have told ABC’s Lateline they were only paid a few thousand dollars per year for full-time work and had to resort to welfare payments to survive. The Church of Scientology claims people who sign up to work do so as volunteers.
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Scientology probed over underpayment claims
PTI Patna: A local court has acquitted all the 27 accused involved in anti-Sikh riots of 1984 due to the absence of witnesses against them in Bihar’s Rohtas district. Additional district and sessions judge (III) Nand Kishore Sharma while acquitting the accusedearlier this week (May 31) for want of evidences also crticised the police machinery for its failure to produce the four witnesses in court, whose absence led the court to let off the accused.
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27 anti-Sikh riots accused acquitted in Bihar
Charles Flowers, who founded Love Demonstrated Ministries, International with his wife, and Stephanie Bassitt, a former staff member, were accused of using a rope to tie a 15-year-old girl to a van on June 12, 2007, and then dragging her behind it. They were tried in 2008, but a judge declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict.
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DA’s office to refile assault charges in boot camp case
Australia’s industrial inspectorate has confirmed it is investigating the employment practices of the Church of Scientology .
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Fair Work Ombudsman looked into Church of Scientology
A day after City Harvest Church completed a massive five-day seminar which involved 30,000 people including foreign evangelists, police rounded up several individuals linked to the church for alleged misuse of church funds. The 17 people who are ‘assisting police with investigations’ included the megachurch’s founder and Senior Pastor Kong Hee, who was picked up early Monday morning.
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City Harvest Church under investigation by CAD and Commissioner of Charities
I’m pleased to guest post a contribution from Jon Rowe, who normally blogs at American Creation and at his own blog as well. Jon has done a lot of reading on religion and the American founding, and has the following thoughts on a popular history text, George Washington’s Sacred Fire by Peter Lillback, which has stormed from Glenn Beck’s show onto the top seller lists. On Glenn Beck’s show , they had the following conversation: BECK: Yesterday, it was like 475,000 on Amazon.com.
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George Washington’s Religion, the Founding, and the Perils of Glorified Self Published Books
AMRITSAR : A rare collection of hand-written manuscripts of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim religion along with outstanding relics of European Renaissance, collected by a Sikh scholar in Punjab village are in state of gross neglect. A Sikh scholar Dalip Singh of remore village Mallu Nangal on Indo-Pak border in this district who owns the collection is a disappointed man. He has got a collection of various religious books hand written even from the times of 15th centuary.
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Rare collection of hand written manuscripts in Punjab village getting ruined
New Delhi, Jun 1 (PTI) A Delhi Court today issued notice to the CBI on a petition challenging an order of a lower court accepting the closure report in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler. Additional Sessions Judge V K Khanna sought a response from the probe agency by July 24 on the revision petition filed by riot victims. Lakhwinder Kaur, whose husband was killed in the riots, sought further investigation by the CBI into the case following claims about emergence of fresh evidence
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Court notice to CBI in ’84 anti-Sikh riots case against Tytler
It’s time again for me to dive into the old Armstrongist material from days long gone and pluck out some choice quotes for you. Today we will answer what a “generation” is according to Herbert Armstrong’s reckoning of time, and we’ll add more fuel to the fact that the much-hyped “prophetic understanding” was no understanding at all. “Only the Church of God has the Key of David which is the understanding of where Israel is today – Rev.
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A Generation Since the "Last Generation"
A district judge today allowed a plea of a sessions judge to transfer a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case allegedly involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. District Judge Bimla Makin decided to hear the matter herself on June 2 after receiving a request along with details related to specific reasons from Additional Sessions Judge V K Goyal in a sealed envelop
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District judge to hear ’84 anti-Sikh riots case against Sajjan
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals. The respondent, Phelps, has staged loud protests with members of his Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals around the country.
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States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief
“H’Nguen, was forced to take her two children, H’Danh and Y-Ly, to the Nhan Hoa Police Station” on May 3 “and told she must sign documents giving custody to the government,” said International Christian Concern (ICC), an advocacy group closely monitoring the case. Her husband, Montagnard Christian K’pa Lot, died in March of torture while being detained for publicly expressing his Christian faith and fighting for religious rights, ICC and other activists said.
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Widow Of Murdered Vietnam Christian Forced To Hand Over Children
Delhi will soon have a new tourist spot, just in time for the Commonwealth Games. Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial, an architectural marvel that promises to give an insight into the life and teachings of the Ninth Guru of Sikhs, is ready and likely to be inaugurated soon
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Delhi gets its latest architectural marvel
A cavalier, devil-may-care insouciance famously comes more easily to some than to others — casual declarations on the conditions aboard slave ships no doubt came rather easily to wealthy antebellum southern “gentlemen,” the travails and pains of combat seem to flow with uncanny ease from the rhetoric of men who couldn’t find the time to sign up when their time came. All of which brings me, naturally, to the status of individual privacy, autonomy, and integrity as seen from the mountain of gold from which Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, regards the world : The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly …
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Strong Opinions from Above
T he Harper government vowed to review its immigration rules after Canadian visa officers in India touched off a furor by barring dozens of people on the grounds that their service in army, police and intelligence units made them complicit in human-rights violations. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney issued an apology on Friday, saying Canadian immigration officials should never have cast aspersions on India’s institutions. The incidents, he said, showed visa officers have too much latitude.
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Indian visa uproar prompts Canada to launch immigration-policy review
A Delhi court on Friday framed murder charges against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The Kadkaddooma court framed charges against Sajjan Kumar and five others for allegedly killing five people in Delhi Cantonment during the riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Earlier, the Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s petition contesting the framing of charges against him in the killing of five people in the city during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
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Charges framed against Sajjan Kumar
Here it is: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s communication with the Communion. Commentary will follow later today. Renewal in the Spirit The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Pentecost letter to the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion 1
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The Archbishop writes a Pentecost Letter to the Communion
It’s lead up time, friends, time in Anglicanland when the spin masters try out the words they will use when the going gets tough. Times are going to get tough indeed, for there is always wreckage in the fast lane. So here is the word of the day: Hypocrite .
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A.S. Haley on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion.
Mark 11: 11-26 1 Ptr 4:7-13 / Psa 96 Have faith in God… whoever… does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it shall be done for him. (Mark 11:22-23) Lord Jesus, free me from any doubt, Give me courage for faith to stand out; Unless my life is fruitful for Thee, My faith
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Fruitful, Faith-full, and Forgiving