In this exciting new edition of FWBI we take a look at Deuteronomy 13:6-10! Do you have any friends who are devoutly Christian but are married to a non-believer or someone who practices a different religion? Or perhaps they have a child who decided to strike out on their own path and adopt a faith…
hope ho-p/ noun 1. a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. “he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information” 2. archaic, a feeling of trust. Today, I tried to have a lighthearted conversation with my friend, Dictionary, and I think I may cry. My friend,…
“So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna’ stiff me. And I say, ‘Hey Lama, hey, how about something, you know, for the effort. And he says, ‘Oh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me. Which is nice.”…
As my friend, the dictionary, would have it, trust is the following: firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. “relations have to be built on trust” synonyms: confidence, belief, faith, certainty, assurance, conviction, credence; More reliance Trust is also tricky. Trust is built on tested truth, but testing that…
A Halloween message from your friend, Duncan Trussell: It’s Halloween…and most of you are aware of the fact that this holiday was originally called Samhain and that the door of the spirit world opened up and fairies and spirits were most active during the night of Halloween and the preceding days. So, this is probably…
I was speaking with a friend online today regarding the NSA’s domestic surveillance program. Much to my dismay, he seemed to be fine with it. He’s proven himself to be an intelligent and persuasive guy in the past, so I pressed him on it, hoping he would reveal some groundbreaking new argument that I hadn’t…
by Cynthia Cone On October 7th, 2013, I was arrested with members of Veterans for Peace at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in NYC. My arrest was not a surprise. As a matter of fact, I went to NYC fully intent on going to jail that evening. Ending the wars is a cause I care very…
Mortality is a great heavy weight dangling over each and every one of us. It’s poised to strike us down when we are either least or most prepared for it. It doesn’t care. It’s part of life. I hate tragedy. This is when mortality’s strike is the most painful – when suddenly and unexpectedly it…
Every day I get my daughter off the bus and every day she bounds toward me with all the confidence of a tea party Senator, aware of lots of things but still not really thinking with an adult brain. She tells me how great her day was and walks inside, plopping her hefty backpack on…
During our early religious indoctrination, most of us were told stories from the Bible about Satan. He was an evil, demon-man, a fallen angel lording over the underworld of Hell while causing mischief in the upper world, patiently awaiting sinners, backsliders, and non-believers so he could torture their souls forever. And God, being omnipotent and…
As children, we all “learned” in school about the adventures and exploits of Christopher Columbus: the brave explorer who set out on a perilous mission to discover the New World. He was sold to us as a folk hero, a man to be admired. Banks would close, and we would get a day off from…
This has been one of the strangest weeks I have ever had. Ironically, it all seemed to start at Liberty Tattoo on Friday night when I made the decision to have the word “chaos” tattooed on my leg (words of advice: be careful of the statements you declare on your body). By Saturday evening it…
The spoil of the oil makes true freedom impossible The area that contains the modern Iraq has seen much strife and bloodshed over its long and storied history. The spoils and land of the area have been fought over by the Romans, Mongols, Ottomans, British, and most recently the United States. The early aggressors had…
To start off my little rant here, I’d like to say that I am probably the biggest “gun-nut” on this planet. Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated by firearms. As a teen – when my father felt I was mature enough – we would go target shooting and then work on…
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