Ready and Steady Til He Comes!
On September 5, 2009, I had the privilege of going on a special one-day tour of all 3 beaches involved in the D-Day Landings – at Omaha Beach (US), Gold Beach (UK) and Juno Beach (Canada). Follow along with me as I share my impressions from this most sacred soil
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Tonight, in honor of the great Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, heavily damaged in a tragic accidental fire, I am reposting my original travel blog of Paris, specifically of the day I visited this landmark Cathedral. The article’s wording has not been edited, since its original Blogger posting in 2009. For the events of Friday, September 4, 2009 10:15 AM
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On the evening of July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian resident of France, deliberately drove a 19-tonne cargo truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, killing 84 people and injuring more than 300. He was shot and killed by police. The incident has been described as the third major terrorist attack
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By Calling Out Community, posted March 2, 2016. After years of ‘feeling the heat’, Yale University’s Climate & Energy Institute (YCEI) is finally facing ‘an inconvenient truth’: it was announced on March 2, 2016 that the program will close at the end of June, following three consecutive years of budget cuts for the program, which was established eight years ago to conduct climate
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At least twice in the last 24 hours, as I discussed the ISIS attacks in Paris (and my latest article on same) with some of my nearly 1,300 Twitter followers and a few on Facebook, I was amazed to hear people actually blame the State of Israel for the Friday the 13th attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and
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IslamRising: Special feature to the Calling Out Community, Posted November 15, 2015. Once again, radical Islamic terrorists have struck at the heart of France – the city of Paris – and with devastating results. The scenes were heartbreaking, as France faced its most deadly assault since the Second World War on Friday the 13th (November 2015). With 129 dead and
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IslamRising: Special feature to the Calling Out Community, Posted September 12, 2015. Updated January 28, 2016 A Michigan city’s planning commission turned down a request to build a large new mosque project on September 10, 2015, according to Arabic news agency Al-Jazeera. And as an evangelical conservative Christian, it may surprise you to know – I actually initially didn’t agree
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IslamRising: Special feature to the Calling Out Community, Posted January 12, 2015. After reading the horrific headlines screaming at us all week, the average John and Jane Citizen could be forgiven for becoming sick and tired of hearing the word “Islamic”, and all the negativity the word conveys. This centuries-old faith group has quickly become the greatest threat to our peace and safety in the world today
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