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Judgement and Evaluation

Reprinted below is an article that appeared in the telegraph (of a highly respected newspaper in the UK) about the discovery of letters, previously unpublished, written by Mother Teresa, describing her own, considerable crisis of faith. Time (magazine) ran a similar article and included in their version additional observations from a constant critic of Mother Teresa and a confirmed atheist. Continue Reading →

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beah

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Comments by Bill Cumming

Before you buy or go to the library and borrow this book (and I suggest you do so as soon as possible), or read the rest of this article, I recommend you prepare yourself for a straight forward, devastating, nauseating, brutal picture of war. Of the fifty conflicts that rage in the world today, as you read these words, it is estimated that there are 300,000 (three hundred thousand) child soldiers. At thirteen, fourteen at most, this was the life of Ishmael Beah: Continue Reading →

An Experience of God

What in the world are we missing?

How is it that there are 5.5 billion (84% of the population of the world of 6.6 billion) people in the world practicing hundreds of different religious beliefs and we still have 2.2 billion people living in poverty, in many cases dying of starvation and without shelter tonight? Continue Reading →