On June 24th New York joined six other states including Connecticut where same sex marriage is legal.
New York Daily News reported that the state Senate passed the Gay Marriage bill by a 33-29 margin. Gov. Cuomo signed the bill minutes before midnight.
(Picture: People celebrate inside of Stonewall Inn after the New York Senate passed a bill legalizing gay marriage in New York June 24, 2011. Lucas Jackson / Reuters)
What would you do if your pastor preached a sermon including teachings from the Koran?
According to a recent report, a number of mainline Protestant Churches may have shared passages from the Koran this past Sunday.
The same report details a number of well known evangelical leaders who signed a declaration recognizing ‘Allah’ and ‘Yahweh’ are the same God (some are pictured).
Michael Card with World Net Daily reports.
What do you think? NEST wants to know.
I recently had a thought-provoking conversation with a good friend in which he questioned whether miracles (including biblical miracles) actually prove the existence of God. This led me to formulate the following thesis: Biblical miracles are never directed at the simple philosophical question, “Is there a God?” but rather they tell us something about the God who exists. In other words, biblical miracles are not God’s way of saying, “Look, I exist!” but rather, “See, this is who I am.”
Take the two defining miracles in the Bible: In the Old Testament, it is the parting of the Red Sea and the associated events rescuing the people of Israel out of Egypt. In the New Testament, it is the resurrection of Jesus. Continue reading
Indiana has created new laws (2011) to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood in response to congress’s failure to repeal healthcare. Other states are also taking action. Kansas state lawmakers passed a budget in May restricting funding for Planned Parenthood. North Carolina lawmakers are also preparing to block Planned Parenthood funds.
Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester, born seconds apart in 1919, died hours apart earlier in the week.
The two Buffalo-born brothers were co-workers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor who worked at St. Bonaventure University in Buffalo New York.
The twins were born into a family of five older sisters surprising their father who prayed for a son. The twins often joked “the Lord fooled him and sent two.”
The two were turned away from military service because of medical issues: one brother had a bad right eye and the other a bad left eye.
Friends and coworkers describe the two as “gentle souls” serving at perishes in Buffalo for 17 years and finally at St. Bonaventure seminary for 35 years (1973-2008). Their careers spanned 65 years of service as friars according to the Associated Press report.
“They had this intimate bond, in which neither was selfish at all,” their cousin, Michael Riester, told the Buffalo News.
We thought it was over on Saturday. Not the world but perhaps Harold Camping’s date setting obsession. It’s not over and he’s back at it again.
Yes you read that correctly. After the colossal forecasting flop, costing millions of dollars in sponsoring 5000 billboards nationwide, Mr. Camping revised his May date to October 21st when the Earth would be destroyed.
Readers of the NEST blog expected May 21st to be just like any other day between the two comings of Jesus Christ, and so were not surprised to see the calendar move to May 22. So…now what?
The third issue of NEST’s newsletter Veritas (Latin for truth) is now available for download in PDF format – simply click here. Volume 3 Issue 1 is a special issue pulling together the cluster of articles written by faculty members of The New England School of Theology on the contemporary issue of the Return of Christ and the predictions of Harold Camping. It was originally broadcast by e-mail on May 19 but the articles it contains all date from earlier in the month.
NEST has made the conscious decision to engage the issue of Harold Camping, Family Radio, and the prediction that Judgment Day would be May 21, 2011. Not everyone would agree with this decision. Our esteemed friends at The Gospel Coalition, for example, made the well-considered decision not to give the prediction any more publicity. For our part, however, we recognize that there is enormous interest already and there may be compelling positive reasons to engage the issue publicly. These include:
Judgement Day is now days away…according to Harold Camping with Family Radio. Perhaps you have followed our short series evaluating Mr. Camping’s claim.
In this final installment of Harold Camping’s Judgment Day calculation, I will take up several additional claims upon which Mr. Camping rests his argument. Continue reading
Harold Camping with Family Radio has announced that Judgment Day is days away. A national campaign is underway featuring radio programming, TV broadcasts, and billboard adds to proclaim the news to the world.
NEST is continuing to look at both Mr. Camping’s specific claims and offering some thoughts on the potential general impact upon believers and the unbelieving community.
In this installment I will formally offer a critique of Mr. Camping’s Judgment Day calculation drawn from Genesis.
The Gospel Coalition