Once Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Getting Significant Votes

Muslim Brotherhood الإخوان المسلمون Al-Ikhwān Al-Muslimūn COGwriter The Muslim Brotherhood continues to do well in Egypt’s elections: Muslim Brotherhood Takes Elections by Storm Islamist parties are expected to control Cairo’s parliament by the spring with the Muslim Brotherhood projected to be in the driver’s seat…Judges overseeing the vote count in Egypt’s parliamentary elections say Islamist […]

German Mayan Researcher 2012 Conclusions are Incomplete

Dresden Codex Picturing a Flood COGwriter A German researcher’s conclusions about the Mayan 2012 date are in the news today: Sven Gronemeyer, a researcher of Mayan culture from North Rhine-Westphalia said that his decoding of an old stone tablet referencing 2012 has shown that the Native American civilization merely expected the return of one of […]

Secular Concerns About Christmas

COGwriter Various sources outside the COG have recently raised some concerns about Christmas that those who profess Christ should consider: …what little connection exists between the birth of Christ and this consumerist thing we call “Christmas” continues to erode. Perhaps that’s a good thing. Maybe we should all just ’fess up and admit that there’s […]