Jesus’ Health Care Plan

Source: The Barna Group
Jesus’ Health Care Plan

An editorial by George Barna
September 2009
“You can’t turn on the TV, listen to radio or read a newspaper without confronting some information about the raging debate on health care. Surveys continue to show that Americans are not well-informed on the issue and are struggling to figure out who is [...]

The Women’s Crusade

 
“IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount [...]

Please, help Us Send Medical Help to Haiti’s Poor

The letter below is from a friend. Hubner Soivilien sent it to me yesterday. I thought I would inform you readers about it. Mr. Soivilien is seeking for assistance to provide and send medical supplies to help sick people in Haiti. If the great Lord is called you too help the Haitian people, [...]

N.T. Wright, “World Needs A Strong United Nations”

World Needs A Strong United Nations
by N.T. Wright
 

“The doctrine of ‘just war’ was developed in order to emphasize that, though war is always an evil, sometimes it is the lesser of two evils. Doing justice, in whatever form, is always about anticipating in the present God’s eventual design to put the whole world to rights, [...]

The Patriot’s Bible and Justified Torture

Greg Boyd wrote an interesting piece on the subject of the Patriot’s Bible and Justified Torture. Give it a read if you can. Let me give you a sneak preview. Boyd writes,
“The Patriot’s Bible consists of hundreds of commentaries on various patriotic themes, ranging in length from one sentence to four pages, inserted at various points [...]

Evangelicals and Torture

A recent survey conducted by Pew Research Center  reports how Evangelical Christians respond to the use of torture:
“More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to [...]

The Law and Human Dignity or Civil Law and Civil Rights

Things like that happen everyday in America, and this particular incident should not be  considered a “casaulty.” Why? Because  in our society some people are still viewed as “the other” and treated as if they belong to another human species or category. One of the promises of a democratic state is that people should be treated with dignity [...]

Black Women get Double Life Sentence for $11.00!

Grand Injustice ! Read Below:
Mississippi gave Gladys and Jamie Scott each a double-life sentence in an armed robbery where no one was murdered or harmed and the amount alleged to have been taken was a whopping $11.00.
This is a damn shame and a total injustice, says black blogger African American Political Pundit. We here so [...]

What I learned In Seminary (Part II)

My journey to seminary has been both a cultural shock and survival. Cultural shock, in reference to the insensitive atmosphere and the socially limited space represented on-campus; cultural survival describes best the urgency to subdue the socially-constructed confinements, isolation and disgrace. What I’ve discovered was that the myth of a Christian collective goal and shared [...]