In last week’s post , I shared a list of lies and false beliefs from Nancy Leigh DeMoss’ book, Lies Women Believe . The second part of her book title is, “And the Truth That Sets Them Free.” Today I want to share the list of truths she counters those lies with. There is no marriage God cannot heal.
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Is Divorce Really the Answer? — Part 2
DEAR KELLY: I recently found out that my boyfriend (of 8 months) has two Facebook accounts. One account that I can see says that he is in a relationship with me and posts things about how in love with me he is, but on the other account, he lists himself as single and looking to meet new people for “friendship and more.” Only his best friends (all guys) knew about the second account. One of my friends came upon his second account and showed me
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Teen Talk: Boyfriend’s deception is reason enough to end it
Ella Putnam, 6, and Grandpa Bob Foote The subject: Ella Putnam, 6, and Grandpa Bob Foote The snapshot: Ella’s grandparents, Bob and Dixie Foote of Cameron Park, took her on Amtrak to San Francisco’s Union Square for a two-day visit to experience the sights and sounds of the city.
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Snapshots: Smell the rose
DEAR CAROLYN: My husband is a local celebrity chef who gained notoriety during our first four years of marriage. This created some conflict with “foodie groupies,” and my husband’s inability to lay down boundaries when they hug, kiss, or hit on him at local events.
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Carolyn Hax: Husband’s fame stands between wife and a good marriage
UC Davis researchers have found that companies are using a new medium to peddle fattening, sugary foods to children. Online “advergames” – a blend of interactive animation, video content and advertising – are being used to promote corporate branding and products, particularly high-fat, high-sugar foods, according to public health researchers. The findings were recently published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
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Food companies target kids through online games
Conversion to Islam consists simply of declaring a belief in one God and the prophet Mohammad.
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Often, converts to Islam are diligent followers
Prisoners are converting to Islam because of the “perks” they can receive in jail, a report has claimed.
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Prisoners converting to Islam for ‘perks’
CNN reported yesterday that Helen Thomas, dean of the White House press corps, is under fire for anti-Semitic remarks she made in an interview (YouTube) with RabbiLIVE at the May 27 American Jewish Heritage Month reception at the White House. After saying that “Israel should get the hell out of Palestine,” Thomas was asked where the Jews in Israel should go
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Helen Thomas, Dean of White House Press Corps, Under Fire For Anti-Semitic Remarks
Hindu leaders have welcomed RUSSELL BRAND’s interest in their religion, i nsisting they’ll embrace him now he appears to have put his wild past beh ind him. The funnyman recently expressed a fascination with Hinduism in a Rollin g Stone magazine …
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PR-Inside.com Entertainment News – PR Inside
Well, its official. The Archbishop proposed, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion disposed.
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What makes The Episcopal Church so "Special" in the Archbishop’s eyes?
Passionate speeches, a rapt audience, reverberations of an auspicious conch, the sound of ancient Sanskrit verses, a unique idol of Lord Ganesh on display and an exhibition of objects attacked by ghosts were just some of the highlights of the second …
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Second Chicago Hinduism Summit Concludes Successfully – Newsblaze.com
World News Anchor, Diane Sawyer, asks physicist Stephen Hawking about the biggest mystery he’d like solved.
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Stephen Hawking on Religion: Science Will Win (6.7.10)
A conference sponsored by the Latter-day Saint Council on Mormon Studies, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame Held at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA March 18-19, 2011 In a world pervaded with religious fervor and seemingly perpetual war, it has become essential for religious believers to consider the realities of violent conflict and the possibilities for a more peaceful world.
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War and Peace in Our Times: Mormon Perspectives
The good news: this is quoted verbatim from an article describing landmark scientific findings in Australia: “But I bit my tongue, and sent it off to a recognised authority, palaeontologist Peter Murray in Darwin, to see what he thought. When he confirmed that it probably was Genyornis , it was pretty exciting,” Robert says. The bad news: as quoted, the passage gives the misleading impression that someone bit off part of his tongue and asked scientists to evaluate whether it was an extinct flightless bird
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Reading and Painting
June, and the strawberry season is upon us. How I used to love it as a child: a heaped dish of berries, the large and the small, all blushing with the excitement of summer … apply sugar, mantle with cream, and the result was heavenly
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Let’s bring back the flavour to our national fruit
There are two big differences between the coalition Government and the last Labour administration. One is the approach to tackling the deficit.
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Forget football. The coalition’s game is different
A Tory prime minister, at the head of a coalition just a few weeks old, speaks directly to the people, and warns that the nation must make great sacrifices to avert calamity. “If all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, and they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able … to ride out the storm
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Cameron must address his rhetorical deficit
As Iran’s leadership prepares to dispatch a Red Crescent flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, its propaganda organs are spreading one message throughout the Muslim world: the Jewish state, branded by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as “the Zionist stain of shame”, is heading for its inevitable destruction.
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Propaganda war latest: Tehran 3 Israel 0
What can one say about the Pentecostal slap-fest that is currently going on between Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and his counterpart here in the United States (his counterpart in every form of Anglican power that is meaningful, these days) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori? Let me make a few comments that strike me as rather obvious.
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Jefferts Schori (quietly) goes Pentecostal
Sal Vasquez approaches the finish line of the 87th Dipsea race in 1997, the last year he won the event. No one doubts Sal Vasquez’s toughness. But there is tough, and there is realistic.
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At 70, Carmichael runner and former winner reluctantly sits out 100th Dipsea race
This story that ran in the New York Times late last month is headlined “ In Ultrasound, Abortion Fight Has New Front .” The inclusion of the word “fight” made me think the story might include perspectives from those who support abortion as well as those who don’t. And I guess, technically, the story did
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Still just a clump of cells?
The controversial Agape Ministries Church is “not a doomsday cult ” and any claims to the contrary are “a load of rubbish”, a criminal lawyer says.
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Agape Ministries Church ‘not a doomsday cult’ – lawyer
A majority of people in Britain associate Islam with terrorism and the repression of women, a poll has shown.
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Islam associated with terrorism by public, poll shows
Have you ever been watching TV and see a report from an oil magnate, like the CEO of “Big Oil, Inc.” who is issuing an apology to his investors for being down in the first quarter… yet that company still … Continue reading →
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American Muslims “Indecent” Proposal regarding 9/11
Hindus have welcomed interest of Unitarian Universalists in Hinduism ideas, practices, and values.
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Hindus welcome Unitarian Universalist interest in Hinduism
Friday’s Detroit Free Press reported that the Canton Township, Michigan police have changed their policy and will no longer require persons being booked for arrest to remove head coverings if they are worn for genuine religious reasons. Booking photos will be taken with the person’s religious garb normally worn in public still on.
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Police Department To Take Booking Photos With Religious Headgear On
Yesterday’s Kentucky Post carries an article titled Covington Diocese Sex Abuse Settlement– 1 Year Later . While court records remain sealed, the article reports on a few of the victims who received payment form the 2009 settlement by the Diocese
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250 Receive Payments In Covington Diocese Settlement