December 2009
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Book Review: "The Search for God and Guinness"
Author Stephen Mansfield has ventured to provide his readers with a ‘biography of the beer that changed the world’. Given the option to read and review a book with such an intriguing title, I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
The title while intriguing, however, was misleading. Whereas the title and dust jacket promise a biography of Arthur Guinness, the brewing company...
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Rediscovering the 'Good News': the problem of...
Recently, I have spent a great deal of time reading about the continent of Australia and the missionary methods which were employed to introduce this particular segment of the world’s population to the good news of Jesus Christ.
The historical records of the attempts by the British to both colonize and Christianize the penal colonies and the aboriginal population are wide and varied in...
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Santa + Noah's Ark = Advent Calendar
After my friend Drew Tatusko’s latest blog post regarding a postcard that he recently received in the mail, I couldn’t resist posting this picture of an advent calendar that a friend and his family were recently given.
Advent for me is a challenging time. It is a time of excitement and eager anticipation in which I long fo the celebration of Christmas morn and the dawn of...