Entries from April 2007

April 29, 2007

What? No Farting Cows On Mars?

From The Sunday Times
April 29, 2007
Climate change hits Mars

Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced [...]

April 28, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 11

1866  Isaac Errett (1820-188 founds the Christian Standard, a liberal voice. The Christian Standard was to come out in favor of the Missionary Society and in favor of instrumental music in the corporate worship of the saints. The Standard today is associated with the independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.
1872 Ben Franklin, writing in the American [...]

April 27, 2007

Power, pyramids, and the modern pastorate

Somehow this post from Jimmy Shaw reminds me of my previous post of an e-mail from Edward Fudge (See Below)
Sally Morganthaler has a post (which is actually an excerpt from this book) at the Leadership Journal blog in which she assails the transformation of church leadership over the past thirty years. As a result of our having embraced [...]

April 25, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 10

1848 HISTORY OF THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.
BY PROF. R. RICHARDSON, OF VIRGINIA.
THEIR RISE, PROGRESS, FAITH, AND PRACTICE.
THE religious society, whose members prefer to be known by the primitive and unsectarian appellation of “Disciples of Christ,” or by that of “Christians,” the title first given to the followers of our Lord at Antioch A. D. 41, [...]

April 25, 2007

A Skeptical Vietnam Voice Still Echoes in the Fog of Iraq

“I just never thought it was going to work at all,” Mr. Halberstam said of Iraq during a public appearance in New York in January. “I thought that in both Vietnam and Iraq, we were going against history. My view — and I think it was because of Vietnam — was that the forces against us [...]

April 24, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 9

1841 The Love-Feast by Walter Scott in (THE EVANGELIST)
Last night we had a Love Feast: It was opened by prayer, and psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. The sweetest brotherly feeling pervaded the assembly, which, by the way, was large, the house being crowded. A brother C.D. Hurlbut then addressed us on the subject of [...]

April 24, 2007

America The Beautiful

WIPE OUT GLOBAL WARMING:  CROW PROPOSES LIMITS ON TOILET PAPER…
Rosie to Sheryl Crow: ‘Have You Seen My Ass?’…
Rosie Grosses Out Media Elite

April 23, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 8 (Some Sad Quotes Here*)

1838 From the Millennial Harbinger, June 1838
           News from the Churches
           JACKSONVLLLE, Illinois, March 1st, 1838
We have had a very uncommon religious excitement here. Our church has met for five or six weeks every night, and often in the day. We have received and baptized about fifty–the Methodists double, and the Presbyterians and Congregationalists a large [...]

April 22, 2007

Weapons of Mass Destruction?

How many millions of these are out there?

 

The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US. Parts of a video of the beheading were broadcast on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV network.
The Taleban said the dead man, Ghulam Nabi, had given the US [...]

April 21, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 7

1829 Alexander Campbell served as a delegate in the Virginia Constitutional
Convention which met in Richmond, Va., from October 1829, until January 1830.
While there, he wrote to his wife Selina:
I preached yesterday to about 3000 souls, the largest assembly which Richmond has seen for many a day hundreds had to go away without hearing
Early 1830’s Churches from [...]