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Do you recognize the top six scams in the USA?

The Ten Commandments COGwriter CBS put out a report a while back about what one author believes are the top six scams that affect people in the USA: Overall, the nation’s most prevalent scam remains a fake check con, which involves “overpaying” for a product or service and asking the recipient to refund the difference. [...]

Do you recognize the top ten scams in the USA?

The Ten Commandments COGwriter CBS put out a report about a while back about what one author believes are the top six scams that affect people in the USA: Overall, the nation’s most prevalent scam remains a fake check con, which involves “overpaying” for a product or service and asking the recipient to refund the [...]

Barack Obama goes to a mosque to promote religious liberty

COGwriter US President Barack Obama went to a mosque to ‘reaffirm religious liberty’: Obama Reaffirms Religious Liberty in First Visit to US Mosque February 3, 2016 WHITE HOUSE— President Barack Obama, on his first visit to a U.S. mosque as president, says Americans “too often” conflate Islam with terrorism. “We’re one American family,” Obama told [...]

EU offers UK deal, but PM Cameron wants details improved and Nigel Farage wants out

David Cameron and Nigel Farage COGwriter The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom received an offer from EU’s Jean Claude Juncker intended to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union.  David Cameron likes the deal, but wants more as do others: February 3, 2016 David Cameron has mounted a defence of his EU reform [...]

Valentine’s Day ‘love’

COGwriter Valentine’s Day is observed by many in February. Currently we are starting to see store displays and tv & print ads for it. In the past, the improperly named Christianity Today (CT) sometimes seemed to try to justify its position on the holiday by talking about love, as this is what its Valentine’s page [...]

Orthodox set date for ‘a Great and Holy Council;’ could it fulfill prophecy?

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Pvasiliadis) COGwriter Leaders of the Eastern Orthodox announced the dates to hold what is now being called “a Great and Holy Council”: February 2, 2016 The heads of most of the world’s Orthodox churches have called a Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church to be held in the month of [...]

Iowa caucuses past, candidates look to the future

Iowa Caucuses top vote getters COGwriter Iowans voted in their caucuses last night.  Sometimes Iowa matters a little and sometimes a lot in US presidential politics.  If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had pulled off significant victories last night, their eventual nominations could have appeared to be unstoppable. But that is not the view after [...]

Should Christians watch the Super Bowl?

COGwriter This coming Sunday is known as “Super Bowl Sunday” in the USA. Most years, the American football (which is not the same as the sport called soccer in the USA) contest known as the Superbowl is the most watched television program in the USA. Between 100,000,000-150,000,000 are expected to intentionally (as opposed to perhaps [...]

‘From Antichrist to Brother in Christ’

Ecumenical Church Service COGwriter Mike Gendron put out his newsletter today.  Here is some of what he published February 1, 2016: In his first-ever video declaring his “prayer intentions,” Pope Francis called for dialogue and collaboration among those of the various world religions asserting that they are simply “seeking or meeting God in different ways.” Francis [...]

British scientists get permission to genetically-modify human embryos–21st century Frankenstein’s?

Boris Karloff made up as Frankenstein’s monster COGwriter The UK just approved something it should not have: February 1, 2016 Britain’s fertility regulator has granted its first license for the genetic modification of human embryos for research into the causes of infertility and miscarriages. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said Monday, “Our license committee [...]