COGwriter An ecumenical educational leader recently died in India: A Tribute to an Educationist in the Ecumenical Movement – Dr. Mani Jacob The National Council of Churches in India is saddened to learn of the demise of Dr. Mani Jacob, General Secretary of All India Association for Christian Higher Education (AIACHE) and Chancellor of Sam […]
Month: July 2011
Comet Expected During Feast of Tabernacles, Will Harold Camping’s Followers Point to It?
Comet Lulin COGWriter A ‘Holy Day’ comet is expected during the Feast of Tabernacles this year: Comet races toward Earth at peak of God’s holy days Pastor asking: ‘Will there be some type of magnetic pull? Will the poles shift?’ WND – July 31, 2011 excerpts… A newly discovered, real-life comet named Elenin is racing […]
Herbert W. Armstrong Would Have Been 119 Today
COGwriter Herbert W. Armstrong would have been 119 today. Even though we in the COGs actually do not celebrate birthdays, nor do we celebrate his (see also the article Did Early Christians Celebrate Birthdays?), since the anti-COG sites keep making a bigger deal of this day than we in any COG would and since many […]
Norway Shaken, But Terrorist Talks
Greek Riots, 2008 COGwriter People in the Nordic countries have tended to be shielded from the violence that affected Greece lately and other lands since the end of WWII until last week. Here is what the Living Church of God reported in its latest TW News & Prophecy: Terror in a City of Peace! Oslo, […]
Universe Made for Human Life, Atoms Should Help Prove God Exists to Scientists
Depiction of solar particles interacting with Earth’s magnetosphere COGwriter New Scientist admits that some things about the universe are just right for life on planet Earth, kind of like God intended it: IT HAS been called the Goldilocks paradox. If the strong nuclear force which glues atomic nuclei together were only a few per cent […]
COGWA Nominates Board Members
COGwriter In COGWA’s latest letter (7/30/11), its secretary wrote: I am pleased to inform you of the official results of the recent ballot to select nominees to serve on the Ministerial Board of Directors (MBOD). Here are the nominees, listed in alphabetical order: David Lawrence Baker Jim B. Franks Arnold Jerome Hampton Michael James Hanisko […]
TW on US Debt Ceiling
COGwriter Here is an item from today’s TW News & Prophecy by the Living Church of God: U.S. lawmakers and the President have been “haggling” for months over how to deal with the current debt ceiling crisis. Many commentators have compared the stalled arguments to children who will not give in unless the other party […]
Despite James Malm, No the Great Tribulation CANNOT Begin in 2012
“Orthodox” 16th Century Representation of the “Apocalypse” COGwriter Although inaccurate “prophets” such as Ronald Weinland and Harold Camping have declared that the biblical period known as the “great tribulation” began some time ago, the reality is that this biblically prophesied event cannot begin prior to 2015. Yet, in a 7/28/11 post titled Present Trends and […]
Germany’s Fourth Reich Beginning to Conquer Europe
Berlin Reichstag COGwriter A reader sent me a link to a blog of an interesting interview: Jim Rickards – Germany’s Fourth Reich Has Conquered Europe July 28, 2011… Rickards continues…”…The bad news at least if you’re Greece or Italy or Spain or Portugal is that from now on your fiscal policy is going to be […]
Muslim Call in Jerusalem for a Caliphate
Jerusalem COGwriter Calls for an Islamic caliphate are increasing: Radical Islamists Trying to Take Over Temple Mount Israel National News – July 28, 2011 On the 90th anniversary of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the vast Islamic Caliphate regime which fell in 1921 after WWI, thousands of members of the Radical Islamist organization Hizb […]