If you have never heard this parable, or only know the second-hand account from the Bible, reflect on the fact that the Son of Man created this story, not just for the confused and confounded souls of his day, not just for all future residents of our world, but for every lost soul on each and every world of a projected ten million inhabited planets.
Children are born believers in God, academic claims By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent, Telegraph.co.uk 24 Nov 2008 Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose. …
There is much hope and expectation in America that a new day has dawned, a day of justice and fairness, of true compassion and a new expression of our highest ideals. Today, we should all pray that this is true; that we are about to enter a new way of looking at our existence, at our world; a new way that eliminates the shameful neglect of the least fortunate among us.
The LA Times reports that: Ann Coulter’s jaw wired shut! We’re sooo sad…. Page Six is reporting that right-wing agitator and controversy-seeker Ann Coulter’s jaw is wired tightly shut. I know, I know. If the report is true, It’s almost as if our prayers have been answered. Apparently it was broken, but by whom, no one seems to be sure. …
WASILLA — With the dust and turkey stench not even dry cleaned out of the GOP’s clothes from her last public debacle, Sarah Palin is scheduled to troll for votes in Georgia for Senator Saxby Chambliss, the GOP’s dead ringer for Crocker Jarmon…
All stupidity aside for now, our “distinctive values” are, of course, rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition; they inform all the morals and ethics that attend our decision making as individuals, and collectively as the will of the people. But is it the job of the Government to teach Americans morals, ethics, and values, as this collective mass of various biological tissue claims? or are we responsible as individuals? as Republican racists insist?
Our world— Urantia— has become known among other neighboring inhabited planets as the “World of the Cross.” For newbies to this blog who’ve never heard of The Urantia Book, just the caption on the photo above holds the potential to make their head explode. “. . . neighboring inhabited planets”?? Uh huhh. But. Yeah. If all you’ve ever thought of …
