https://www.andrewlhicksjrfoundation.org/uncategorized/ocjl6n7v When my wife and I first arrived in Bolivia, in January of 1990, we went to Cochabamba to attend the Instituto de Idiomas Maryknoll (Maryknoll Language Institute). My wife was taking the beginning course, while I was taking the advanced course. Though I was born overseas, I had grown up in the USA. So, I […]
Archives for 2009
Post-traumatic stress syndrome and the missionary
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https://municion.org/jmlmsf5cmnj Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat. When I was a child, I can remember jokes […]
Roland Burris to be seated as Senator – Saturday Night Live at the Senate
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https://www.fogliandpartners.com/su2b536 I enjoy watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Tina Fay play Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. I never thought that I would watch Saturday Night type of skits at the United States Senate. But, I find that I am having quite an enjoyable time watching egos get punctured, and […]
Immigration aside
https://www.varesewedding.com/1v6a5puj7s From a newspaper article today comes the following quote: Immigration prosecutions have steeply risen over the last five years, while white-collar prosecutions have fallen by 18 percent, weapons prosecutions have dropped by 19 percent, organized crime prosecutions are down by 20 percent and public corruption prosecutions have dropped by 14 percent, according to the Syracuse […]
A small defense of the Calvinists
https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/0av01jo Having jumped on the Calvinists on the issue of the Early Church Fathers and history, I thought it would be only fair to mount a small defense of Calvinists on one issue. Calvinists are regularly accused of agreeing with the phrase that is so often heard in the South, “once saved, always saved.” It is […]
The scandal of Church history
For the Calvinists among us
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To adiophora or not to adiophora – the Calvinist response
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Zolpidem Tablets Online Huldrychus Zwinglius, the famous Swiss Reformer known to us as Uldrych Zwingli, and Jean Cauvin, the famous French Reformer who fled to Switzerland, known to us as John Calvin, are considered the fathers of the Reformed family of churches [shhh, and, of course, John Knox]. They, like all the Reformers, had to deal with the problem of […]
Adiophora, just a little dab will do you!
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https://hazenfoundation.org/63lio9cp8 There is a major difference between the way in which the Lutheran and Anglican Reformers looked at history, and the way in which the Radical Reformers looked at history. But, that difference is important. And the key difference was stated by the Lutherans in one word they called, “adiophora.” So, what is adiophora? This may […]
You were a believer, yes . . .
https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/ppzodwasd0y   Thank you iMonk!
