COGwriter Zenit.org (A Vatican news service reported the following: Prelate: Bible Key for More Than Christianity Says Scripture Is Europe’s “Mother Tongue” LISBON, Portugal, JUNE 24, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The Bible is a cornerstone, not just of Christianity, but of Western civilization, proposed Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi. The president of the Pontifical Council for Culture affirmed this […]
Month: June 2008
LU Classes for Fall 2008
Living University “All the World Is Our Campus” COGwriter Living University announced that early registration is open and that the following classes are planned to be offered for the Fall of 2008: Below is the tentative 2008 fall schedule of classes. WC = Web Centered Course Delivery. SCH = Semester Credit Hours. Early Registration [June […]
Dutch Worried About 2012
Page 9 of the Mayan “Dresden Codex” (from the 1880 Förstermann edition) COGwriter The following news item was of interest: Many Dutch prepare for 2012 apocalypse UPI – June 23, 2008 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (UPI) — Thousands of people in the Netherlands say they expect the world to end in 2012, and many say they are […]
J. Swank, “There is no pre-tribulation rapture”
The above photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflect what pre-tribulation rapturists hope to miss COGwriter The following item in yesterday’s news was of interest: Preaching a pre-tribulation rapture weakens the church Joseph Grant Swank, Jr., is a pastor at New Hope Church in Windham, Maine, and is the author of five books and thousands of […]
Ronald Weinland: Nothing will happen between now and July 16
VS. Ronald Weinland Says His Books and His Interpretations of the Bible Are What He Wants Potential Supporters to Study. The COGwriter Site Instead Urges Those Interested in Him and End-Time Prophecies to Spend More Time Checking His Writings with the Bible. COGwriter In a sermon yesterday, which he eventually titled as “Following God”, he […]
Midwest Flooding and Myanmar
Flooding in Iowa Affected More Than Urban Housing COGwriter AOL had this news item: River’s Rise Renews Worries in Missouri By CHERYL WITTENAUER, AP Posted: 2008-06-22 02:40:41 Filed Under: Nation News FOLEY, Mo. (June 21) — Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northeastern Missouri and Illinois got an […]
Orthodox Getting Closer to Unity with Catholics
Outside of Orthodox Church of St. George, May 7, 2008 Constantinople (Currently Called Istanbul, Turkey) COGwriter As long-time readers of this page are aware, I have long believed that the Orthodox would enter into some type of closer unity with the Vatican. When my wife and I were at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople last […]
WCG Announces Three Retirements
COGwriter The July-August issue of WCG’s Together (formerly known as the Worldwide News) came out today. It announced the following three retirements: Paul Kroll…, senior editor of Christian Odyssey, author of numerous articles on our website, and writer in the Personal Correspondence Department, retired on June 6. He began full-time work with the WCG in […]
Trinity in Constitutions?
COGwriter Yesterday, the following was reported in the news: “There are numerous other cases where national identity and religion are officially connected in some way, and where there are official bonds between a nation-state and an ethnocultural Diaspora,” he writes. The Greek constitution, for example, makes some surprising provisions. Though it promises, to quote from […]
Ron Weinland Admits He Had Nothing Pertinent to Report–But that he will continue!
VS. Ronald Weinland Says His Books and His Interpretations of the Bible Are What He Wants Potential Supporters to Study. The COGwriter Site Instead Urges Those Interested in Him and End-Time Prophecies to Spend More Time Checking His Writings with the Bible. COGwriter Today, Ronald Weinland posted comments that included the following: June 19, 2008 […]