Living Sacrifices

Christians often spend much of their time wishing and trying to manipulate God. We do not always do this in the most obvious of ways, but sometimes...
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Shattering Preconceived Notions and...

Coming from the west coast of the United States, the Adventism that I have grown up with has been of a more liberal brand, in perceptions of the...
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A cult is a religion without political...

Opining on Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech, Crunchy Con Rod Dreher quotes Tom Wolfe: "A cult is a religion without political power."
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| Friday Film | Friendship has no...

H/t to Ryan Bell. Adventist screenwriter Christoph Silber, a native East German, who was a screenplay consultant for Goodbye Lenin (2003) has a new...
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French Diary: A Book or the Street

When I decided to study for a semester in France, I was determined to avoid anything American in search of full cultural immersion. For this reason...
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From Bali: Al Gore calls out the lack...

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The Golden Compass: Family...

Perhaps you too received the alarming email warning of the upcoming movie The Golden Compass based on the book by British author Phillip Pullman, a...
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Oakwood College Officials "Regret...

Administrators of Seventh-day Adventist-owned Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, say they “regret” a confrontation between...
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“But the Fruit of the Spirit Is . . ....

The Sabbath School Quarterly lesson for this week comments on the December 8 Saturday introductory commentary: Scientists did an experiment with...
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The shopocalypse is nigh: What Would...

Why is Christmas defined by Congress and retail receipts? Like so much else in America, the right, consumerist wing of Congress is politicizing...
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