I posted the following a couple of days ago, but lost it due to a problem with Word Press (which is why the TW Christmas item and LU item are combined as I do not know how to fix them), so here is basically a repost of the great Chinese news: China to implement fully religious freedom: […]
Month: December 2007
WCG: Christmas Celebration is Not About Whether Jesus Was Born on December 25
TRANSFORMED FROM TRUTH WCG sent out an email stating: Speaking of Life, with Dr. Joseph Tkach: “The Meaning of Christmas” — The Christian celebration on December 25th is about Jesus, not about whether he was actually born on that day. —————————————————————— Comments by COGwriter Of course, since pretty much everyone who has investigated the matter […]
Tomorrow’s World, “Christmas: Harmful for Children?”
The current issue of LCG’s Tomorrows World magazine has the following in an article by its Rod McNair titled “Christmas: Harmful for Children?: Saturnalia’s Dark Echoes Author Hugo Slim reminds us that Christmas “is perhaps the best example of the early Church Christianizing the traditional non-Christian festivals of a season—in this case the festivals of […]
UCG, Living University, & “Merger” Clarification
Living University “All the World Is Our Campus” COGwriter Yesterday I made a “tongue in cheek” comment that UCG should consider sending its potential ministers to Living University. Based upon an email and other comments I have seen, perhaps I should give actual concrete reasons: UCG posted that it was running low on Ambassador College […]
United Church of God Announces Finances & Other Statistics
Yesterday, UCG posted information from its 12/11/07 Council of Elders’ Meeting which included the following: The income for the first four months of this fiscal year (July 1 to Nov. 2) was almost exactly flat, when compared with the same period last fiscal year. The income for the five weeks ending this past Friday (Nov. 3 to […]
LU Announces Theology Classes for Spring 2008
Living University “All the World Is Our Campus” Living University’s Spring 2008 theology classes were in LCG’s latest update. Here is what was announced: It appears that we will have more than 150 students in Living University classes this Spring. Living University Registration for Living University’s 2008 Spring Semester is now underway. Five courses are […]
CGCG: King of the North and King of the South
The above poster was produced by the Europeans over a decade ago. It may be of interest to note that the above inverted stars are pentagrams, a satanic symbol. The poster tower was based upon a painting of the Tower of Babel by a European, called Pieter Brueghel the Elder, in 1563 . In his […]
PCG Flurrys on R.C. Meredith in 1989
R.C. Meredith at the Feast in Fiji in 1989 The January 2008 edition of PCG’s Philadalphia Trumpet contains the following in an article by Stephen Flurry that states: …January 1989. As a freshman at Ambassador College, Pasadena, I had given some thought to possibly transferring to the Big Sandy campus for my sophomore year. I […]
Brian Knowles: Prayer in Britain
At the ACD blog, Brian Knowles posted: 42 percent of Brits still pray! One out of six of those pray every day, while one in four pray at least once a week. When you consider that Britain’s population is more than 60 million — that means there are at least 25 million people in the […]
ICG’s Mark Armstrong: David Pack and the Misuse of Herbert Armstrong’s Name
The Late Herbert W. Armstrong in Sri Lanka A few moments ago, I received ICG’s latest update. In it, Mark Armstrong states: ———————————————————————- News came to me this week that is sickening. That is, that one of those claiming to have inherited “the authority of Herbert W. Armstrong” has told his congregation that they […]