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  Monday, November 25th 2013    Ninth Century depiction of Gospel writers at work. Demons are in the Bible. Everywhere. Especially in the New Testament: the Gospels; the Book of Acts: the epistles of Paul Peter, James, John; the Revelation. The subject is inescapable. Still Christian critics of deliverance argue such miracles have ceased. Other …

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  Friday, November 22nd 2013    I live in a state that doesn’t have a helmet law. Every time I drive down the freeway and see some biker pass me going 90 M.P.H., not wearing a helmet, I cringe.  I also may mutter something under my breath about how dumb he is. I’m right. In …

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  Thursday, November 21st 2013    “Every step you take, every move you make, I’ll be watching you.” Perhaps Sting, who was singing those lyrics while still with The Police, should license his song to our government’s National Security Agency, which we now know has been snooping illegally on the lives of private citizens. Worried …

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  Wednesday, November 20th 2013    Our neighbors in Canada have lately been giving us some valuable lessons on what leadership isn’t, how not to run a city, and who not to vote for. Normally, news from up north gets buried behind the obituaries, unless they are having an Olympics or sending a Polar Express …

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  Tuesday, November 19th 2013    Take that Tina Turner line, “What’s love got to do with it?” shift it a little and you’ve got “What’s luck got to do with it?” That’s a question that more and more scientists are asking. We now know that the entire universe looks like either a grand design …

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  Monday, November 18th 2013    Demons plan strategy against mankind. Perverse. Sinister. Cruel. Even diabolical. Descriptions of the devil usually emphasize his evil nature, but the Wicked One and his minions are seldom seen as ingenious. And adaptable. But as I was thinking back over some of the evil spirits I’ve encountered in recent …

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  Friday, November 15th 2013  Stylized portrait featuring some of the music artists who died at age 27. A new, controversial book, explores the  oddity of famous rock stars all dying at the age of 27, some by their own hands (Curt Cobain) and the latest, Amy Winehouse, found dead in 2011 surrounded by vodka …

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  Thursday, November 14th 2013  X marks the spot. It’s an important concept in spiritual warfare. Twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, X in Roman numerals, it’s known in math as an independent variable or unknown value.  It’s sometimes used, for example, as Individual X, Situation X, Factor X, or Generation X. It can replace …

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  Wednesday, November 13th 2013  The many faces of Lady Gaga designed for shock, art, and attention. Preparing to launch ashes into space. She’s appeared in a dress made of raw meat and more recently entirely in the buff at a concert in France. Her passions are gay rights and poking fun at religion. She’s …

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  Tuesday, November 12th 2013  Mummiform. Pet mummies also offered by Summum. I just found out about these folks, and they’re creepy to say the least: Summum. (The word is Latin for “the sum total of all creation.”) The Salt Lake City-based cult practices the ancient Egyptian religious observance of mummification. Last May, they took …

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