David Pack is trying to pick the low hanging fruit from the recent churn at UCG, and he’s posted “An Open Letter to the United Church of God". Recently, I was joking with someone about being getting kicked out of church, and the response was, “What? There are 400 different…
Yesterday and today were rather hectic. Actually, a lot more than hectic, but I’ll spare you the details. With everything going on, I’ve been burning the candle on both ends. I actually wasn’t going to post anything at all today, but then this came up. Roy Holladay posted a “Pre-Sabbath…
Seth Godin wrote on his blog Seth’s Blog the article “Losing Andrew Carnegie“. Andrew Carnegie, of course, wrote many works on the value of people in the workplace. Godin asked the question if there were any large corporations “today that still believe this?” I’m all for process. I am a…
I am not making this up. On Facebook, there is a group called The Ronald Weinland Appreciation Society. Yes, that’s it’s real name. Well, I do post links from time to time. OK, if that’s too boring for you, then you can check out the parody of Ronald Weinland at…
“If God exists,” goes the argument, “then why is there such evil in the world?” Some might replace “evil” with “suffering” or “wars” or the like. However, the implication is that the condition is wrong. Indeed, isn’t that what evil really is? Wrong? And, there then is the problem with…
The Religion News Blog ran a story about the “Furor over French Muslim woman fined for driving veiled“. She was fined around $29 because it was alleged that the Islamic veil restricted her view while driving. This is just one of the latest stories out of France, where tensions between…
Some in UCG in recent days have been asking, “Where do we go from here?” In some respects, I suppose we could all ask that from time to time. Perhaps, we should first ask if that is even the right question. The question assumes that where you are right now…
One indispensible resource I like to use is the online Blue Letter Bible. One area I recently became aware of is their "Sayings Not Found in Scripture" section. Hopefully, regular readers of this blog will be familiar with the sayings and that they are not in the Bible, but it’s…
Everything that has happened in your life has led up to this point in time. Every experience and every relationship has prepared you for this very moment. I wish I could remember who said that. However, it sometimes strikes me as odd when several seemingly unrelated events coalesce into a…
In a pretty amazing story, BBC News reports that the "First oxygen-free animals found". Deep in the Mediterranean Sea, 3 species of Loricifera have been found. The scientists verified that eggs from them could hatch in an oxygen-free environment. This is pretty amazing, and it shows that life is often…