Church of God News

Month: December 2021

Time: If America Became a Christian Nation They probably wouldn’t like what it looks like

COGwriter A while back, I saw something from Time that seemed interesting. It was partially in response to the PEW survey showing that less people in the USA identify themselves as Protestants or Roman Catholics (see PEW: Declines in USA Catholics and Protestants). And that has reduced further since (see As America becomes more Godless, […]

Response to Shane Schaetzel’s ‘Against the Modern Judaizers’

Ancient Fragment of Jude;s Epistle via Wikipedia COGwriter A reader sent me a copy of a post from Shane Schaetzel that he wanted me to respond to. I was hesitant at first, but after praying about it, decided to post about it. Shane Schaetzel’s post (https://news.gab.com/2021/12/15/against-the-modern-judaizers/) starts out as follows: Against the Modern Judaizers Is […]

What If The Rest Of The World Tightens And The U.S. Doesn’t?

(Unsplash photo) COGwriter The US Federal Reserve announced the following “Federal Reserve Events” for the first half of 2022: December 21, 2021 2022 January 25-26 (second day: statement released 1400 EST/1900 GMT; news conference expected 1430 EST/1930 GMT) March 15-16 (second day: statement released 1400 EDT/1800 GMT; news conference expected 1430 EDT/1830 GMT) May 3-4 […]

Yuletide, Christmas, and Mithraism

COGwriter On December 25, people in many parts of the world celebrate a holiday. This holiday was celebrated before Jesus was born. And, depending on where it was observed, this season had some different names. Two that come to mind are the Saturnalia and Yuletide. The real reason for the season was to worship the […]

Church of God News in Spanish

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God continues to get additional materials translated into the Spanish language. Here are links to the latest news posts we received today: Peter and Paul and Roman Catholic Myths Pedro y Pablo y mitos católicos romanos https://www.cdlidd.es/pedro-y-pablo-y-mitos-catolicos-romanos/ ‘Is Putin Saber-Rattling or Preparing for War?’ ‘¿Está Putin haciendo “ruido de sables” […]

Cursing has reportedly risen between 27 and 41%

(Pixabay) COGwriter The amount of foul language has been increasing. Here is a report from the Wall Street Journal on that: December 20, 2021 In November, Jay Rosenthal unexpectedly found himself uttering a curse word—at his children’s school. … The old boundaries between work and home have blurred, reducing formalities and often forging foxhole bonds […]

Bill Blain: The Omicron Economic Threat

SARS-CoV-2 Variant B-1-1-529 Omicron lineage mutations (Wikipedia via Stanford University) COGwriter The Omicron variant is causing changes around the world. For example, “Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant” (https://www.voanews.com/a/israel-to-ban-travel-to-us-canada-over-omicron-variant-/6361828.html). Notice also: Is Joe Biden About […]

Doctor of the Greco-Roman Churches, John Chrysostom, on Christmas and biblical Holy Days

John Chrysostom (Istanbul, Turkey. May 2008) COGwriter The 4th century bishop John Chrysostom is a ‘saint and doctor’ of the the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Certain Protestants also consider him to be of great importance. He is considered to be so important, he is one of four persons depicted in holding up a […]