Hello podcast listener, The 50th audio podcast in CMF Public Media’s Heard in Central Florida (HCF) series has been posted on-line Wednesday, February 15, 2012. God and The Community of the Resurrection. Hear a presentation on God and the Community of the Resurrection by noted scholar and spiritual writer Dr. John Dominic Crossan. This was [...]
Welcome to My Local Page February 15th, 2012 I am not using this page to parrot the local news or present breaking news necessarily. There will be times I simply state something that is happening or a stance of the local government and things like that. But more often I hope to have an explanation [...]
Unless it’s Justin Bieber, I don’t get star-struck but I have to admit, it was pretty cool to meet President Barack Obama yesterday. During President Obama’s visit to Seattle on Friday, February 16, I had the opportunity and privilege to attend one of the events he was speaking at. Specifically, it was an event at [...]
Opelika City Official Elections – Early Announcement February 16th, 2012 Opelika will be voting in a municipal election on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 for the purpose of electing a Mayor and City Council Place Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Need a reminder of who is in office now? Click Here This is fair [...]
Local Addition February 15th, 2012 For those of you who live where I live, Lee County, Alabama, I would like to invite you to check out the new “Local” section of this site. I am purposely separating it completely from my primary blog because I have gained a significant audience out side of Lee County [...]
Following a conference at Lambeth Palace, jointly convened in the summer by Their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury (Church of England) and the Archbishop of Westminster (Catholic), addressed by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem among many others from all faith communities in the Holy Land, the Archbishop of Canterbury, [...]
From Christian Families News Source- http://emilyhasbooks.com/freethought-social-meetup/ ____________________________________________________ One student was most interesting, as she is an out atheist, yet lives at home with her conservative Christian family . … I left the freethought coffee social with a renewed sense of focus and an urgency to address local issues . ____________________________________________________Read Full Article- Click HereChristian Families [...]
From Christian Families News Source- http://kgvo1290.com/ravalli-county-issues-audio/ ____________________________________________________ Ravalli County Commissioner Matt Kanenwisher speaks out on local issues . … By: Peter Christian | 1 minute ago. Ravalli County … Ravalli County Commissioners are considering several issues of interest to their constituents. On Monday, they met to discuss ways to return the county to three commissioners [...]
From Christian Families News Source- http://kgvo1290.com/ravalli-county-issues-audio/ ____________________________________________________ Ravalli County Commissioner Matt Kanenwisher speaks out on local issues . … By: Peter Christian | 1 minute ago. Ravalli County … Ravalli County Commissioners are considering several issues of interest to their constituents. On Monday, they met to discuss ways to return the county to three commissioners [...]
To mimic Nobbly – “oh fer fucks sake !“ A whole bunch of Christians in the UK are getting their knickers in a twist because a judge has ruled that prayers have no place in local council meetings. Churchmen and politicians are jumping up and down, foaming at the mouth, at this ‘assault on Britain’s [...]
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Michael Hagerty has been named news director for KUNR 88.7 FM – Reno Public Radio. He comes to KUNR from his position as senior producer and news director for KNPB-TV Public Television in Reno, bringing to the job more than a decade of public radio and public television experience. He holds a [...]
From Christian Families News Source- http://emilyhasbooks.com/freethought-social-meetup/ ____________________________________________________ One student was most interesting, as she is an out atheist, yet lives at home with her conservative Christian family . … I left the freethought coffee social with a renewed sense of focus and an urgency to address local issues . ____________________________________________________Read Full Article- Click HereChristian Families [...]
From Christian Families News Source- http://kgvo1290.com/ravalli-county-issues-audio/ ____________________________________________________ Ravalli County Commissioner Matt Kanenwisher speaks out on local issues . … By: Peter Christian | 1 minute ago. Ravalli County … Ravalli County Commissioners are considering several issues of interest to their constituents. On Monday, they met to discuss ways to return the county to three commissioners [...]
RENO, Nev. — Michael Hagerty has been named news director for KUNR 88.7 FM – Reno Public Radio. He comes to KUNR from his position as senior producer and news director for KNPB-TV Public Television in Reno, bringing to the job more than a decade of public radio and public television experience. He holds a [...]
SPECIAL REPORT-Nigeria’s Boko Haram: between rebellion and jihad By Joe Brock | Reuters – Sat, Feb 4, 2012 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At about 10.40 one morning last August, Mohammed Abul Barra rammed his ash-coloured station wagon into a security gate outside the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, knocking it off its [...]
Today will be cloudy with a chance of drizzle, but the skies should clear gradually as kickoff time for the Super Bowl approaches. Temperatures will return to a more seasonable high of 43. The low tonight will dip to 26. Tomorrow will be sunny with a high of 46. Highs should remain in the 40s [...]
When she visited St. Stephen’s a week ago, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said that she had declared immigration reform to be her number one public issue to concentrate on in the first phase of her episcopacy. She explained that she has decided that two such issues are a plenty for a bishop to make priorities. [...]
Vocal Artistry honors Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr. with a multimedia concert experience, “peacemakers,” on February 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church at 1735 Jackson St in Downtown Fort Myers. As with all Vocal Artistry concerts, this event is choral music for a cause. Lee Interfaith For [...]
Vocal Artistry honors Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr. with a multimedia concert experience, “peacemakers,” on February 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church at 1735 Jackson St in Downtown Fort Myers. As with all Vocal Artistry concerts, this event is choral music for a cause. Lee Interfaith For [...]
State Sen. Shane Massey and state Rep. Tom Young were present at the event to listen to the concerns of their constituents. Economic development The importance of economic development and attracting businesses large and small to the area was a large focus of the meeting. Dan Rickabaugh, a businessperson from North Augusta, stressed the importance [...]
Egyptians are celebrating the first anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the 30-year Mubarak regime. By contrast, America’s reaction to this historic event is tellingly muted. Egypt contains a quarter of the Arab world’s people. Here in Egypt, the US had a golden opportunity to encourage genuine democracy. Instead, it long opposed demands by Egyptians [...]
Egyptians are celebrating the first anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the 30-year Mubarak regime. By contrast, America’s reaction to this historic event is tellingly muted. Egypt contains a quarter of the Arab world’s people. Here in Egypt, the US had a golden opportunity to encourage genuine democracy. Instead, it long opposed demands by Egyptians [...]
January 29, 2012 / by admin / Make A Comment / Filed under All, Publicity This article first appeared in Creative Loafing. by Rhiannon Fionn Let us tell a story of an oft-leaderless group of protesters who meet in public parks in costumes, carry signs and shout about government injustices. A group that split over differences of opinion only to then [...]
New here? You can subscribe to our blog via RSS feed and email. Thanks for visiting! We began our ministry in India in 1997 with the Child Sponsorship Program. In 2003, we started the Child Survival Program, and the Leadership Development Program followed in 2004. Country Director Paul Asveen joined our ministry as Country Director [...]
New here? You can subscribe to our blog via RSS feed and email. Thanks for visiting! We began our ministry in India in 1997 with the Child Sponsorship Program. In 2003, we started the Child Survival Program, and the Leadership Development Program followed in 2004. Country Director Paul Asveen joined our ministry as Country Director [...]
Let us tell a story of an oft-leaderless group of protesters who meet in public parks in costumes, carry signs and shout about government injustices. A group that split over differences of opinion only to then begin educating its masses on the inner workings of government and American history. A group that feels misunderstood by [...]
One can’t help but to notice the passion of many people on a couple of local issues. Yet more important issues don’t receive much local attention. I’d like to address that. First, there has been a tremendous amount of attention directed at the ordered euthanasia at the Mercer Co. Animal Shelter. It is a real [...]
Honest reflection on the past twelve months of discontent, as manifested in various forms of revolutionary zeal, rhetoric, and violence, exposes a solitary thread weaving through all the demonstrations and “rebel” and “opposition” movements that cycloned through the Middle East and North Africa: In each case, local issues were the engines of public mobilization. Whether [...]
Despite having struck out twice before in attempts to turn back the clock and recriminalise street sex work, the Auckland and Christchurch City Councils are trying to reintroduce an anti-soliciting bill that has failed twice before In Auckland, Papatoetoe residents have repeatedly attacked the provisions of the Prostitution Law Reform Act that decriminalised street sex [...]
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Honest reflection on the past twelve months of discontent, as manifested in various forms of revolutionary zeal, rhetoric, and violence, exposes a solitary thread weaving through all the demonstrations and “rebel” and “opposition” movements that cycloned through the Middle East and North Africa: In each case, local issues were the engines of public mobilization. Whether [...]
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.Albert Einstein Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein Every day I [...]
Dozens of evangelicals and other conservative leaders decided Saturday to rally around Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination, after meeting in Texas to try and pick a consensus candidate. The decision comes amid speculation that, among social conservatives reluctant to support frontrunner Mitt Romney, indecision over which GOP candidate to back could end up [...]
John’s Gospel is deceptive. The stories are vivid, the language fairly simple; but there is always much more going on than meets the eye. Sometimes when you try to make sense of what he is saying you find yourself really having to think it out – which I suppose is John’s purpose; to puzzle and [...]
A vacant lot in a depressed neighborhood a block from an abandoned school building seems an unlikely place to start a peace movement. But that’s what the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center did a decade ago at the corner of Douglass and Hamilton in Orange Mound. It was the late Alcine Arnett’s idea. A neighborhood [...]
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow stunned the AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL AFC wildcard playoff football game in Denver, Colorado, on January 8, almost everybody predicted would take a miracle for Denver to win. Well… The devout Christian’s statistics in Sunday’s game mirrors the numbering of the Biblical passage that Tebow at times [...]
Disclaimer: I don’t profess to be an expert on this area, it’s just reading some articles recently and my experience being in these 3 countries recently ‘inspired’ me to write this piece. Please feel free to comment. Thanks. Introduction Being a Christian in Singapore and also due to my sociological leanings, I am rather interested [...]
Life with Little Miss “A”, Big Brother “B”, and Baby “C”.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:21 — 2.7MB) Approximately 700 hundred Vancouver and Portland high school students will brave the predawn darkness Saturday morning and descend upon Vancouver’s Evergreen High School with one thing in mind: building robots. FIRST Robotics students build a robot as part of their after-school program. This weekend is the launch of the [...]
State Sen. Shane Massey and state Rep. Tom Young were present at the event to listen to the concerns of their constituents. Economic development The importance of economic development and attracting businesses large and small to the area was a large focus of the meeting. Dan Rickabaugh, a businessperson from North Augusta, stressed the importance [...]
I do have to say that what we see on the news of the “Occupy” movement seems like a lot of street theatre to make a point. It is usually the troublemakers that seem to get on the national news (and that would include protesters who break the law or law officers who over-extend their [...]
Sol and Manuela Bah in Gambia. Podcast: Download (0.0KB) Sulayman “Sol” Bah, a former Muslim, came from Gambia in West Africa 21 years ago as a student. His intent was to live the American dream, make a lot of money and eventually return to Gambia a wealthy man driving a Mercedes Benz and living in [...]
Jawed Basharat / AP This photo taken Dec. 28 shows Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan wife, being carried in a wheelchair to a hospital in Baghlan, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. A 10-man police force is hunting down the husband of a teen bride who was tortured and locked away in a toilet by her in-laws [...]
State Sen. Shane Massey and state Rep. Tom Young were present at the event to listen to the concerns of their constituents. Economic development The importance of economic development and attracting businesses large and small to the area was a large focus of the meeting. Dan Rickabaugh, a businessperson from North Augusta, stressed the importance [...]
Disclaimer: I don’t profess to be an expert on this area, it’s just reading some articles recently and my experience being in these 3 countries recently ‘inspired’ me to write this piece. Please feel free to comment. Thanks. Introduction Being a Christian in Singapore and also due to my sociological leanings, I am rather interested [...]
Disclaimer: I don’t profess to be an expert on this area, it’s just reading some articles recently and my experience being in these 3 countries recently ‘inspired’ me to write this piece. Please feel free to comment. Thanks. Introduction Being a Christian in Singapore and also due to my sociological leanings, I am rather interested [...]