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2021-06-18T18:51:44-07:00

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Are Anti-Vaxxers Against Jesus?

Last updated on: June 18, 2021 at 6:51 pm By Kermit Zarley

There is a movement of people in the U,S., and throughout much of the world, called “anti-vaxxers” in relation to the vaccines now available to protect against the pandemic called COVID-19 that has so far killed 600,000 Americans. Yet people getting the COVID-19 vaccine reduces the chance of other people getting this deadly virus because of it is very contagious, thus easily transmittable for human to human. (See my previous post about “Non-Vaxxer Pro Athletes.” I think anti-vaxxers, who... Read more

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2021-06-16T10:41:14-07:00

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Non-Vaxxer Pro Athletes

Last updated on: June 16, 2021 at 10:41 am By Kermit Zarley

Now that Americans have been getting vaccinated for COVID-19 the past few months, there is a movement going on in which people choose not be vaccinated for it, called non-vaxxers.” Some are activist anti-vaxxers. Why? People have different reasons. Some don’t want to risk side effects. But the chance of getting a harmful side effect from a COVID vaccine, especially those administered here in the U.S. such as from Moderna or Johnson and Johnson, is so extremely minimal as to... Read more

2021-06-14T10:59:46-07:00

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Dr. Scot McKnight Unmasks Evangelicalism

Last updated on: June 14, 2021 at 10:59 am By Kermit Zarley

Dr. Scot McKnight is a New Testament professor at Northern Seminary near Chicago. He has been one of my closest friends for nearly 29 years. Scot is intellectual, gregarious, witty, and has authored perhaps a hundred books. Scot McKnight is also a lifetime evangelical who knows many, American, evangelical leaders, especially those in the academy. Today, he pens the following, needed, and sobering critique of American evangelicalism in his “Scot’s Newsletter” at [email protected]: The Unmasking of Evangelicalism Scot McKnight Jun... Read more

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2021-06-08T00:19:47-07:00

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The Billionaires Battle for Space

Last updated on: June 8, 2021 at 12:19 am By Kermit Zarley

The two richest men in the world–Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk of Tesla–are both on a mission to conquer space. Jeff Bezos announced today that he and his brother Mark will fly next month into space in the first space flight for Blue Origin, a rocket company founded and owned by Jeff. And Musk announced last December that he will fly to Mars, and he predicted the first SpaceX flight to Mars will occur by 2026. In 2002,... Read more

2021-06-21T00:31:13-07:00

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The Sign of Jesus’ Return Will Be the Cross

Last updated on: June 21, 2021 at 12:31 am By Kermit Zarley

My book, Warrior from Heaven, has an image of Jesus on a throne and riding on bright-shining clouds that are shaped like a cross. When I wrote this book, I hired a New York graphics artist to draw this image that I had sketched out. It’s one of my most favorite outcomes of my literary career. It is based on what Jesus said in his Olivet Discourse. During Passion Week, Jesus and his disciples were on the Mount of Olives... Read more

2021-06-17T21:36:01-07:00

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Foster Friess Died at 81

Last updated on: June 17, 2021 at 9:36 pm By Kermit Zarley

Foster Friess died last Thursday here in Scottsdale, Arizona, where I live. He was 81 years old. He had been undergoing treatments here at the Mayo Clinic for a blood and bone marrow cancer. The gregarious Foster Friess will be greatly missed by friends. With a name like that, how could you not like Foster Friess. His name always reminded me of when I was growing up in Seattle, my family sometimes would go have an evening treat after... Read more

2021-06-01T11:15:06-07:00

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Virginia Theological Seminary Announces Reparations

Last updated on: June 1, 2021 at 11:15 am By Kermit Zarley

The Virginia Theological Seminary–an Episcopal Church institution located about 20 miles south of Washington D.C.–has announced a reparations program to pay descendants of hundreds of Black people who were either forced without pay or paid very inadequately, from 1823 to 1951, to build and run this seminary as construction workers, gardeners, cooks, dishwashers, janitors, and laundry workers. Payments will extend to perhaps hundreds of their descendants as genealogists pour through records to determine who is qualified for what will... Read more

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2021-05-31T12:55:12-07:00

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China Now Allows Three Children Per Family

Last updated on: May 31, 2021 at 12:55 pm By Kermit Zarley

China is doing what the Bible says by allowing more and more children per family. For, the Bible says that when “God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1.1 NRSV), he afterwards declared to the first humans, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it” (vv. 26-27). That means populate the earth with humans. Demographers claim that for a nation to just maintain its same number of people year after year, couples must have an... Read more

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2021-05-30T09:01:06-07:00

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The Netherlands Is Trying Not to Disappear Due to Climate Change

Last updated on: May 30, 2021 at 9:01 am By Kermit Zarley

I posted Thursday that a court in The Netherlands (=Holland) this week ordered its largest corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, to “reduce [carbon] emissions resulting from its products sold in the Netherlands by 45% by the year 2030 compared to 2019 levels.” It was the first time in the world that a court ordered a corporation to reduce emissions resulting from its burning of fossil fuels. But it was especially significant that it was a leading corporation in the oil and... Read more

2021-05-29T10:15:15-07:00

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Some Republican Lawmakers Are Reminding Me of Holocaust Deniers

Last updated on: May 29, 2021 at 10:15 am By Kermit Zarley

Republican senators successfully voted yesterday to block the creation of an independent, bipartisan commission–similar to the 9/11 commission–to investigate the Capitol riot that occurred on January 6th. In my opinion, that is a travesty against our democratic form of government. Indeed, the House impeached former President Trump for causing that “insurrection.” And this negative vote was done yesterday despite the majority of American voters calling for such an investigation. It’s because there is so much disinformation going on and lingering... Read more

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