COGwriter The latest issue (print date February 29, 2012) of The Journal just arrived here electronically. The two main topics of this issue were related to the role of women as possible pastors etc. and arguments about the biblical canon. It also had various ads promoting unitarianism, conspiracy theories, etc. And while those type […]
Month: March 2012
Scholars and Easter
COGwriter Eash year, scholars have raised concerns about the secularization of Easter: Is the meaning of Easter being lost? Some scholars fear the story of resurrection has gone far astray By KATE SHELLNUTT HOUSTON CHRONICLE April 3, 2010, 6:22AM… Fewer than half of Americans mentioned Jesus’ death and resurrection when asked about the significance of […]
Latest ‘Shroud’ book promotes heresy
COGwriter Next week, a new book related to the Shroud of Turin is to be released: Penguin unveils secret book on Turin Shroud The Bookseller The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection by Cambridge art historian Thomas de Wesselow …tackles the question of how Christianity was born. The religion began […]
Park Romney on Mormon History
Mitt Romney (Gage Skidmore, 2011) COGwriter A former Mormon and cousin of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney had some comments about his views of LDS history: The two visions of Mormonism the Romney cousins present could not be more starkly opposed. Park Romney, 56, is a former Mormon high priest, who turned against the church. […]
Scholars Realize that Early Christians Kept the Passover, So…
COGwriter This time of year, those faithful in the Churches of God have been following Paul’s admonition to examine themselves prior to the start of the Passover and other Spring Holy Days (1 Corinthians 11:27-32). Jesus, of course, kept the Passover and told His followers to follow practices He associated with it: 14 When the […]
‘Hunger Games’ and Hunger Future
COGwriter The movie The Hunger Games came out a few days ago and is wildly popular (it has the biggest three-day opening weekend take of any original, as opposed to sequel, movie, per Erica Orden. ‘Hunger Games’ Triumphs. Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2012, p. B9). Here are some comments about it from an official […]
Obama suggests compromise with Russia after US re-election
COGwriter US President Obama was unknowingly recorded while hinting of a compromise with Russia: 26 March 2012 (CBS News) SEOUL, South Korea – Unaware that a microphone was recording him, President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for “space” until after his re-election to negotiate on NATO’s planned missile defense system for Eastern […]
100,000 Apparently Consider Pic de Bugarach a 2012 ‘Place of Safety’
COGwriter In 2009 Sony released its 2012 movie. The movie portrays Los Angeles, India, the Vatican, and other places being destroyed by a flood, starting December 21, 2012. The main ones that survive, survive on what could best be described as flotilla of modern versions of Noah’s Ark. Because the date of the start of […]
COGaIC’s David Hulme remaining ‘vision-less’ on Middle East
COGwriter Although they may be the fifth or sixth largest COG, I rarely post much about COGaIC. The reason is that they do not seem to have a whole lot going on worthy of report (and have also restricted certain information that other COGs tend to make public). David Hulme, who leads it, was the […]
Today is Temple Mount Awareness Day
Depiction of Levites Carrying the Ark of the Covenant COGwriter Today has been declared Temple Mount Awareness Day: March 25, 2012… The Temple Mount Institute chose Sunday, the second day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, to stage the Temple Mount Awareness Day because it is the anniversary of the dedication of the Holy Tabernacle, […]