Criswell College Graduate Named to Senior Post at Southern Seminary

Thursday, 27 September 2007, 15:31 | Category : Campus, Church
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Dumas named senior vice president for institutional administration at SBTS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — R. Albert Mohler Jr, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has appointed Dan Dumas, executive pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., as senior vice president for institutional administration.
Dumas also oversees conferences at Grace Community Church, a congregation shepherded by [...]

- – - – - opher Hitchens: Religion poisons everything

Thursday, 27 September 2007, 8:06 | Category : Bible & Theology, Church, Culture/Society, Missions/Evangelism/Apologetics
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Christopher Hitchens, laments in his most recent post the contention that morality finds its base in a “Dear Leader” that we must “simultaneously (and compulsorily) love, and also fear.”
Then, he casts the gauntlet: I should like, for the continued vigor of this discussion, to repeat the challenge that I have several times . . . [...]

Sex and Alcohol discussed around SBC

Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 8:20 | Category : Bible & Theology, Campus, Church, Culture/Society
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From the halls of LifeWay Research (think: Ed Stetzer), a new study is released revealing the “beliefs and attitudes of Protestant pastors and laity toward drinking alcohol as well as the percentage who personally drink alcohol.”  Click here for the Results.
Also, over at SEBTS, Dr. Danny Akin, who has written on sexuality before, recently invited [...]

Break Fast? Harvard University Jews and Muslims Celebrate Together

Monday, 24 September 2007, 9:43 | Category : Bible & Theology, Campus, Church, Missions/Evangelism/Apologetics
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On Harvard University’s campus, over 150 students from both Jewish and Muslim communities gathered together to break fasts together on Saturday night, celebrating the commonalities of their religions and sharing the similarties of their faiths. As the Crimson reports, Saturday was “Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, and Muslims are [...]

Auschwitz and remembering fallen humanity

Friday, 21 September 2007, 21:44 | Category : Culture/Society
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From a recent donation the USHMM has made available the photos collected from Auschwitz–through the lens of an SS leadership officer at the camp.
Click here for album.
SS officers.
Pictures of Jewish prisoners arriving at camp. 

Smiles in Darkness

Thursday, 20 September 2007, 5:35 | Category : Bible & Theology, Missions/Evangelism/Apologetics, Politics/Public Policy, World News
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Can you guess the setting for this picture? How about the next one?
Whatever the setting, they seem to be enjoying themselves. Still Wondering? Answer: These staffers are taking a break at Solahütte, a vacation spot just a stone’s throw away from their “day job” in Auschwitz. Where, you ask? These “happy” [...]

First NYT mention of TV science

Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 15:02 | Category : Culture/Society
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“SENDING PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELEGRAPH; Professor Korn has Triumphantly Succeeded in Transmitting Portraits over Long Distances by Wire Experiments in France and Germany Conclusive Description of the Marvelous Instrument.”
See the article.
View the PDF.

Another NYT moment…

Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 14:59 | Category : Culture/Society, World News
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This article from April 16, 1912, brings chills:
Read the abstract.
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Reason why the NYT release is a Good Thing

Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 14:54 | Category : Culture/Society, World News
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Read this link, or see the pdf of this article from April 15, 1865.  Wow.

Christopher Hitchens Curses Billy Graham

Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 12:55 | Category : Bible & Theology, Church, Missions/Evangelism/Apologetics
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Christopher Hitchens was recently interviewed to self-promote his newest rant, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, calls Billy Graham “a self-conscious fraud,” who didn’t believe a word of what he preached, but was just in business for the money.
He calls Graham a “power-worshiping bigot” who made a living by “going around spouting lies [...]