Posted in Faith on Mar 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Lee Grady of Charisma magazine wrote a column (here) concerning evangelist Todd Bentley’s restoration from sin he now admits to. Rick Joyner, who is the lead pastor for the restoration process, responded with an email (here) that he didn’t expect would be published and sounds somewhat harsh. I have been following Rick’s video updates (here) [...]
Posted in Business on Mar 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
The Obama administration says that its plans to remove up to $1 trillion in toxic loans from banks’ books, called the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility — or TALF, could be announced by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as early as Monday. AP reports that, “if banks are not burdened by the soured loans, then they would be in [...]
Posted in Business on Mar 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Populist anger over Wall Street bonuses is driving Congress to act rashly and irresponsibly. Hopefully, the proposed 90% tax won’t actually make it into law, or if it does, perhaps we can count on the courts to strike it down. But in some ways it doesn’t matter. Harm has already been done to the sector [...]
Posted in Business on Mar 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Everybody from Washington to talk radio is up in arms over the AIG bonuses. How dare AIG give out bonuses when the American taxpayer is bailing them out! Congressmen are demanding names and declaring that if the money isn’t given back that they’ll pass a special tax to take the bonuses away. Americans are outraged!
Hmm.
Well, [...]
Posted in Faith on Mar 16th, 2009 No Comments »
A friend said he wondered, “how much of ‘Christianity’ in the US is primarily cultural rather coming from a heart-devotion to Jesus?”
I was intrigued by this thought. For me, much of life is culturally determined. Not just in the U.S., but in most places and in most times. Even church has its own culture. We get [...]
