The Anti-Manichaeist

Charles Sheldon was the author of In His Steps the turn of the 20th century novel about a congregation that after meditating on 1 Peter 2:21 and the death of tramp in their sanctuary has a remnant who commit themselves to asking “What Would Jesus Do?” for all their important decisions and following through no […]

I like what Jim Wallis has to say…

The Prez of Iran has written a letter to the US people, saying the people of both states “were God-fearing, truth-loving and justice-seeking”. He says some stuff I agree with, including that “Only a shift in policy could mend damaged relations and with other states and a bruised global image.”The problem is he calls for changes […]

BBC source 
Up to 10 million people died during the 1932-1933 famine.  Joseph Stalin created the famine, confiscating the harvest of Ukrainian peasants to force them to join collective farms.  A bill was proposed by President Viktor Yushchenko, who wants the UN to also recognise the famine as genocide.
This would never have happened if it were not […]

Bob Robinson tells it straight about how the birth of Jesus is about the subversion of powers. 

Because of our inability to acknowledge that we majorly messed up in how we regime-changed Iran(’53) and Iraq(’03), our country’s leaders are diplomatically forced to hold Putin’s hand, despite how this subverts the “War on Tyranny” that ought to complement the “War on Terrorism”. 
The recent poisoning of Mr Litvinenko in London is drawing more attention […]

Levko at Foreign Notes translates into English some of a letter written in Ukraine by a friend of Alexander Livinenko, the murdered ex-KGB spy. 

Kudos a Foreign Notes, there is an important commentary made on Andrew Wilson’s Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.  It provides important reminders of the meaning of the Orange Revolution(OR), despite the serious failures of its political leaders. 
Wilson writes, “A self-proclaimed Orange Revolution can be accepted as profoundly revolutionary in several key senses, and I have been happy […]

An Australian piece that goes in depth into the socio-cultural history of James Bond and the many diffs between the Bond of Ian Fleming’s novels and the Bond of Hollywood films.
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Over at Orange Ukraine, GMM has translated into English a recent speech given by Yulia Tymoshenko prior to the 2nd anniversary of the Orange Revolution.