By Devin C. Foley, April 3, 2015 commentary at:  http://www.IntellectualTakeout.org  Foley’s website has over a million Facebook fans.  In this essay, posted on Good Friday this year, he comments on some on the comments he has received from millennials (those with birth years approximately early 1980s to early 2000s).    When it comes […]
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Above:Â From The Passion of the Christ, Â 2004 ————————- From The Passion Reconsidered, an article by Frank Turek posted April 12, 2009. Â Turek is coauthor of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. Â See more of his work at: Â CrossExamined.org. Â Â Â Nearly 45 years ago, medical doctor C. Truman Davis felt he
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   I am a descendent of immigrants.  Most Americans are.  The first generation of my ancestors in this country endured great hardship and suffering.  They left their homeland and families forever, they crossed the ocean in what would now be considered intolerable accommodations, and then entered an unfamiliar and frequently dangerous land.  Only then
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      (…continued)  Years later, George McGovern became a world famous U. S. politician, even running for president in 1972.  One time, he was invited to speak somewhere in Austria at a World War II Anniversary event.  He told that story as an example of all the suffering that war brings to civilians,
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Photo above: George McGovern (center front) and his crew ******************************    If God is all-loving and also all-powerful, why doesn’t He do something about all the troubles in the world and in my own life?  This has been one of the most troubling questions throughout the ages for theologians, philosophers, and just about everyone
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Quotes from The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis (1380?-1471); thought to be the most widely read Christian devotional book in history.  No book of any kind, besides the Bible, has been translated into more languages.    You have here no lasting home (Hebrews 13:14); and wherever you may be, you are a stranger and
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   Father Rick Frechette (1953- )(pictured above) is a Roman Catholic priest who has given his life to serving among the poorest of the poor in Haiti.  He has been there for over 30 years, and has loved his ministry with the Haitian people.  They have such miserable lives, he says, but are always
702) “May the Angels Lead You Far, Far From Here” Read More »
   Recently I ran across an old videotaped recording that contains a fascinating conversation between two men, Tim and Greg.  Thirty years ago, when the conversation was recorded, both men were in their middle 30’s, and both were teachers at the same college.  At about the same time, they were both diagnosed with an
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   In 1860 Andersonville, Georgia was a little town of less than 20 people.  It would have long ago disappeared and been forgotten, had it not been for one thing.  In 1863 the Confederate States of America built near Andersonville their main prisoner of war camp for captured Union soldiers in the American Civil War.
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   Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us.  ‘We have all we want’ is a terrible saying when ‘all’ does not include God.  We then find God to be an interruption.  As St Augustine says somewhere, “God wants to give us
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