If elephants aren’t persons yet, could they be one day? | Aeon Essays


At present, many people treat elephants as objects of entertainment and sources of valuable ivory. Although the international ivory trade was banned in 1989, poaching is on the rise – and in 2017, the US president Donald Trump lifted the US ban on imports. To harvest their tusks, humans slaughter elephants at rates that, if they were persons, would amount to genocide.

Source: If elephants aren’t persons yet, could they be one day? | Aeon Essays

Labyrinth Heart | Keith Giles


Watchman Nee which says: “Most Christians spend all of their lives trying to get into a room they are already in.”

Source: Labyrinth Heart | Keith Giles

Watch “Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God” on YouTube


If you’ve seen the alternative to this world and Elijah, why would you want to balance your checkbook?


Do physicians commonly categorize Near Death Experiences as dementia? I’ve know several people that have had them during medical procedures and no, they were never the same afterwards. If you’ve seen the alternative to this world and Elijah, why would you want to balance your checkbook? Despite medical advances determinism perhaps is  a permeable facade.

Dementia Sometimes Starts In A Hospital’s ICU : Shots – Health News : NPR

Up to half of all patients who survive emergency medical treatment in the intensive care unit have mental problems when they return home. Doctors studying the problem say it starts with delirium.

Source: Dementia Sometimes Starts In A Hospital’s ICU : Shots – Health News : NPR

Concentric Circles of Love | Keith Giles


http://www.patheos.com/blogs/keithgiles/2018/10/concentric-circles-of-love/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Progressive+Christian&utm_content=781

Alien Citizens: Karl Barth, Eberhard Arnold, and Why the Church Is Political by Will Willimon


The most revolutionary political statement we can make is that Jesus reigns; that God, not nations, rules the world: All political, all social, all educational, all human problems are solved in a concrete way by the rulership of Christ.

Source: Alien Citizens: Karl Barth, Eberhard Arnold, and Why the Church Is Political by Will Willimon