Kurdish All-Female Militia Launches Offensive Against ISIS to Avenge Sex Slaves


An all-female Kurdish militia has launched a military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq with the aim of avenging and liberating the Yazidi women who’ve been raped, assaulted and killed by the terror group in Northern Iraq’s Sinjar region.

Source: Kurdish All-Female Militia Launches Offensive Against ISIS to Avenge Sex Slaves

10-Eye-Opening Quotes From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger | LifeNews.com


10-Eye-Opening Quotes From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger

Source: 10-Eye-Opening Quotes From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger | LifeNews.com

Bono & Eugene Peterson | THE PSALMS – YouTube


Part of Us Always has to Die –Richard Rohr


Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr

Whenever we’re led out of normalcy into sacred space, it’s going to feel like suffering. It’s letting go of what we’re used to. That causes suffering. Part of us always has to die. If that readiness isn’t there, we won’t enter into sacred space. The prophet leads us into sacred space by showing us the insufficiency of the old order; the role of the priest is to teach us how to live in the new realm. Unfortunately, the priest too often operates separately from prophet. He talks of a new realm but never leads us out of the old order where we are still largely trapped. Such priesthood is commonly ineffective, although quite popular. In this new realm, everything belongs. The awareness is often called a second naiveté. It is a return to simple consciousness. The first awareness is a dangerous naiveté. It doesn’t know but thinks it does. In second naiveté the darkness and light coexist, paradox is revealed, and we are finally at home in the only world that ever existed. This is true knowing. Here death is a part of life, and failure is a part of victory. Opposites collide and unite, and everything belongs.

 

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: the Gift of Contemplative Prayer

Finally, an Awesome Backgrounds Bible!


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One of the great publishing delights of 2016 is the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible. Zondervan, of course, is the publishing house. The NIV 2011 is the translation employed, one that is faithful to the meaning of the Greek and Hebrew and communicates clearly to English-speakers of the 21st century. This is truly a landmark publication; the subtitle says it all: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. The dense, nearly 2400-page Bible is packed with notes, graphs, photographs, sidebars, tables, charts, maps, and cross-references. It would be difficult to find two more qualified general editors than John Walton and Craig Keener. These two scholars live this stuff. They are giants in the field. Kudos to Zondervan for signing them on for this project. Their names alone are a solid recommendation of this Bible.

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Virtually every page brings fresh illumination to the text of Holy Writ. The NIV…

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A Curator’s Guide — An Exploration into Matthew and Mark


Daniel B. Wallace's avatarDaniel B. Wallace

img_9080Across the next few weeks, I will be publishing a series of blog posts celebrating the work of Robert M. Bowman, Jr. in creating helpful bibliographies on books of the Bible. Bowman is a very careful and well-researched theologian, exegete, and author, having published many articles and books on religion, theology, and apologetics. In particular, I’d like to highlight a book he co-authored with Ed Komoszewski, Putting Jesus in His Place, which is the most accessible introduction to the deity of Christ published in the last several decades. Each week I will upload new posts with the bibliographies of certain New Testament books compiled by Bowman. This first post will feature the bibliographies for Matthew and Mark, and subsequent posts will provide bibliographies for books up through Revelation. Rob has done his homework and I am grateful for the opportunity to post this bibliography of resource tools for studying the New…

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This Is How Sand Looks Magnified Up To 300 Times | Bored Panda


Comparing something to a grain of sand is usually supposed to mean that it’s small or insignificant, but Dr. Gary Greenberg’s microscopic photography aims to turn this stereotype on its head. His photographs of miniscule grains of sands reveal that each grain of sand can be beautiful and unique. The sand in his images is full of remnants from various tropical sea organisms large and small.

Source: This Is How Sand Looks Magnified Up To 300 Times | Bored Panda

The White Horse and the Humvees—Standing Rock Is Offering Us a Choice by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Kathleen Dean Moore — YES! Magazine


Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures.

Source: The White Horse and the Humvees—Standing Rock Is Offering Us a Choice by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Kathleen Dean Moore — YES! Magazine