McCain’s VP…a post-denominationalist?

It is always good to stay informed. This is why we are trying to inform you about the facts behind the presidential class of candidates and their religious affiliations. 

News Analysis
When news broke yesterday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain had named little-known Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate, religion writers across the country and the curious in the blogosphere scrambled to …

There is a growing Ecumenical Movement-L.A. Times

 
By Steve Padilla, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 
August 30, 2008

Conflicts between religions continue to rock the world, but when Gustav Niebuhr looks out on the religious landscape, he sees what he calls the “possibility of community.”

Niebuhr, an associate professor of religion at Syracuse University, detects an encouraging (he calls it unprecedented) trend: people of faith reaching out to …

Dead Sea Scrolls going digital

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of theDead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet. Full Story

Catholics lead in prayers for Democratic and Republican Conventions

In this week’s democratic convention and also for the upcoming Republican convention, Catholic leaders have been asked to lead the conventions in prayer. The appearances will be made by Jesuit leader Edward Reese and ‘St. Joseph Sister Catherine Pinkerton. 

Isn’t it interesting how now it does not even matter what party wins the elections or runs for office, because Catholicism is taking it’s …

So Sad-flooding in India

Biden’s Catholic faith-a closer look

 

By ERIC GORSKI, AP Religion WriterSun Aug 24, 12:43 PM ET

DENVER - When Joe Biden underwent brain surgery for a life-threatening aneurysm in 1988, he asked doctors whether he could tuck his rosary beads under his pillow. The six-term Democratic senator from Delaware also has offered to shove his rosary down the throat of the next Republican who tells him …

1500 years later…Pagans to hold special prayer at Acropolis

-The Associated Press

 
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS –ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A small group of pagans pledged Thursday to hold a protest prayer among the ruined Acropolis temples, more than 1,500 years after Christians stamped out worship of the ancient Greek gods. Full Story
 

Check out the handiwork of God

This is an awesome picture of what God has done around the universe. Enjoy 

Noah’s Ark Found…but not where you would think

It is official, Noah’s Ark has been found. Well not the original ark, but one built very similiar. The ark in Schagen, Netherlands was built by a man who wanted to show the world the boat that God inspired to save Noah and his family. Check out the Video Below:

 

 

…Noah’s Ark Opens In SCHAGEN, Netherlands …

Christian Guitar Hero…coming soon

-Tom Jonze

Guardian.co.uk-August 28

“The devil, it is often said, has all the best tunes – now it turns out he owns the best interactive video games too. Next month, a Christian take on the Guitar Hero game, called Guitar Praise, is set to hit shelves in the US”

What I want to know is who asked for this? The software creators or the Christian …

Methodism founder Charles Wesley’s secret code diary cracked

An Anglican Priest has unlocked the code in a diary written by Charles Wesley. The ‘code’ deciphered shows the passionate move by C. Wesley to prevent a split from the Church of England among other things. Full Story

New Director of U.S. International Religious Freedom-The Associated Press

 

-The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - James Standish, a former legislative affairs official with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has been named executive director of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Standish, whose appointment was announced Aug. 20, succeeds Joseph R. Crapa, who died last fall. The commission is an independent, bipartisan federal agency that advises the president and Congress on religious freedom issues worldwide.

Standish …

Archeologists discover ‘portal to the underworld’

“Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.” Known as the Popol Vuh in Xibalba, a mythical underworld that ‘dead souls’ hung around.

The idea of immortality of the soul has existed since Satan decieved Eve in the …

BibleDoc-Check out some interesting articles

Here is an interesting site that goes in depth with some pretty deep biblical topics. Check it out

CNN calls Obama the ‘Anti-Christ’?

The new ad spot with McCain as ‘The One’ with it’s apparent Messianic overtones. The view one can feel when they walk away is that Obama is the anti-christ. Check out this quote from the authors of the ‘Left Behind’ Series:

“I can see by the language he uses why people think he could be the antichrist,” adds LaHaye, “but from my reading …

World Net Daily-God does not operate on a 7 day cycle

In an article published this week on the popular website www.WorldNetDaily.com it was reported that two women from the Seventh-day Adventist Church are refuting the idea of a 7 day creation and of the biblical Sabbath. They say the Sabbath changes all the time and you can not know when it is for sure. 

The bible is clear that God created the earth …

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