The Vatican is an independent, land-locked religious city-state located near the western coast of central Italy. It officially became a country in 1939 as a result of the Lateran Treaty. Around 800 people make up Vatican City’s official population. The foremost citizen of the Vatican is the Pope, a religious …
The Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, Arizona is 36 feet tall and filled with rolls of prayer mantra, grains, medicines, objects of beauty, and even meteorites, all to protect and replenish the five elements of earth, air, fire, water, and space. Consecrated and sacred, the stupa serves as a beacon of …
Many of the Christians I know believe that the Big Bang is in direct opposition to the Bible. However, what if the Big Bang is just a physical expression of the same creation story found in Genesis? Before some of you dismiss the notion, let me give you some background …
A total lunar eclipse on April 15, 2014 obsessed our media. It was a part of a Blood Moon Tetrad. Tetrads consists of four successive total lunar eclipses, with no partial lunar eclipses in between, each separated from the other by six full moons. “Blood moon” refers to the deep …
On Christmas Day, I visited the Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, Arizona. It’s 36 feet tall and filled with rolls of prayer mantra, grains, medicines, objects of beauty, and even meteorites, all to protect and replenish the five elements of earth, air, fire, water, and space. Consecrated and sacred, the stupa …
The river Styx is mighty, life or death on either side, The current’s strong, the journey long, the destination bleak, The punishment of evil lives the boarders must abide They shall not find in any kind the respite they do seek The Frenchman, Jew, the Englishman, the unassuming Greek, Will …
Following is a quote from the Dalai Lama, taken from his Facebook website. Please share your thoughts on this in the comments section below: “All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today …
Ten years ago, Pastor Paul Palmer and his wife felt the nudge to move their family from California to Atlanta and plant the Atlanta Dream Center in one of the poorest, most desperate parts of the city. As a younger man, Pastor Paul had lived through a painful history of …
On a slightly elevated plain just east of Laramie, Wyoming on October 7, 1998, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson beat and tortured Matthew Shepard nearly to death, tied him to a buck fence, and left him for dead. After being discovered by a passing cyclist, Shepard was transported to a Fort Collins, …
A Libyan protest that resulted in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghaz, the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and the death of three other Americans was reportedly spurred by an anti-Muslim video made by an anonymous filmmaker. One segment of the film Innocence of Muslims makes a …
Thomas Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” letter is a defining document in American culture, and for good reason. It was so powerful that Americans coined the term “separation of church and state” based off of one of its most famous lines: “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American …