Thanks to my friend Duane, who passed this gem on to me. According to The Poker Bride, a new book by Christopher Corbett that traces the journey of many of the first Chinese immigrants in the American West, and reviewed by Melanie Kirkpatrick on Wall Street Journal, Before the transcontinental railroad, a ship could cross …
After an outcry from Christians and people of other faiths, Trijicon has released a statement saying it will no longer imprint Bible verses on its gunsights. Thank you, Trijicon, for your quick and responsible action on this matter.
In case you haven’t already seen this, it’s been discovered that gunsights on weapons used by British and American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with coded biblical references, including: Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have …
Thousands are feared dead in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, with millions more affected and displaced. Haiti is the most impoverished nation in the western hemisphere, with a heartbreaking history rife with slavery, despotism, disease and disaster—in 2008, the country was hit by four hurricanes, which killed hundreds. Please …
Applications for The Beatitudes Society Fellowship are open for summer 2010. One of the options for placement is here at Sojourners, so yeah, you’d get to work with me. Isn’t that exciting? 😉 Here’s a description of the program: This core program of The Beatitudes Society empowers seminary students to Expand their experience in ministry, …