Friday, 25 October 2013

25 years ago: Ian Paisley "renounces" Pope John Paul II

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And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Cante...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

40 years ago: The Yom Kippur War begins

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Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflic...
Saturday, 5 October 2013

Headline of the year: "The Mecca That Is Jerusalem"

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Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, t...
Monday, 30 September 2013

50 years ago: Then-obscure Maharishi Mahesh Yogi tours Canada

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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20 In Septe...
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90 years ago: British Mandate for Palestine comes into effect

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And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from th...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

Swedish judge exhibits the wisdom of Solomon

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This sounds like a real-life episode of the 1990s television comedy series Seinfeld . Maybe this is how the proverbial 60-year-old Swedes (...
Monday, 16 September 2013

10 years ago: Garner Ted Armstrong goes to the "wonderful World Tomorrow"

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On September 15, 2003, Garner Ted Armstrong , the second son of Worldwide Church of God founder Herbert W. Armstrong , died at the age of 73...
Wednesday, 4 September 2013

10 years ago: The execution of Paul Hill

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On September 3, 2003, Paul Hill was executed by lethal injection in Florida State Prison in Starke, becoming the first American to be execu...
Thursday, 29 August 2013

40 years ago: Egypt and Libya announce their intention to unite in a single state

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On August 29, 1973, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi announced the "birth of a new unif...
Friday, 23 August 2013

Take me out to the ball game funeral

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In 1979 the television situation comedy series WKRP in Cincinnati aired an episode titled Commercial Break in which the radio station prod...
Thursday, 22 August 2013

The most unwelcome invention of 2013: the "urinal gaming system"

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I'm sick and tired of sports events and leagues being used to promote trendy and politically-correct charities and causes. In recent ye...

10 years ago: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from the courthouse

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I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before ...
Thursday, 15 August 2013

Never trust a talking teddy bear

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If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. Andy Rooney As if there isn't enough surveillance already, now...
Monday, 5 August 2013

50 years ago: Jesuit priest advocates public relations techniques for churches

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We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We...
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10 years ago: U.S. Episcopal Church approves first openly sodomite bishop

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Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Thai Buddhist monk faces sex and fraud charges

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A luxurious lifestyle financed by his followers; claims of miraculous powers; allegations of sexual immorality--no, it's not an American...
Monday, 22 July 2013

Physicists are still trying to understand what God has already revealed

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The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on ear...
Thursday, 11 July 2013

Archaeologists discover Jerusalem's earliest alphabetical written text

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As reported by Xinhua , July 10, 2013 : JERUSALEM, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Working near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, archaeologists have une...

Egyptian sphinx discovered in Israel

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Sphinx Hazor 370 (photo credit: Courtesy of archaeologists Amnon Ben-Tor and Sharo) As reported by the Jerusalem Post , July 10, 2013 :...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy against Islam is now in Canada with her family

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As reported by Terry Glavin of the Ottawa Citizen , July 1, 2013 : Until the Canada Day weekend, it was a closely-guarded secret in Ontari...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Ancient Roman road discovered in Jerusalem

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As reported by Jewish Telegraphic Agency , June 25, 2013 : JERUSALEM (JTA) — A section of a 1,800-year-old ancient road from the Roman per...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

50 years ago: Congress on Prophecy emphasizes the Lord's return

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If there seems to be confusion or neglect of truth regarding the return of the Lord Jesus Christ in 2013, the same appears to have been the ...
Monday, 17 June 2013

50 years ago: U.S. Supreme Court outlaws required Bible reading in public schools

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On June 17, 1963, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of...
Thursday, 13 June 2013

Canadian Forces Base Edmonton: Standing on guard for Sodom

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Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who...
Friday, 31 May 2013

200 years ago: The birth of Soren Kierkegaard

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May 5, 2013 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Mr. Kierkegaard has been called the father ...
Sunday, 5 May 2013

30 years ago: Mormon front organization sponsors talk by Eldridge Cleaver and Cleon Skousen

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath li...

50 years ago: Spiritualists in Edmonton get a visit from their national leader

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When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. Th...
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