AGNOSTIC: Doubter or Somebody Who Does not Know?

DOUBTING THOMAS? MIDDLE PATH? MY LORD AND MY GOD! The focus of this article is on Agnostics and Agnosticism. Questions such as these came to me about a week ago as I watched  prime-time evening news. Actually, I'd like to come back to this after a bit. Clarence Darrow,...

The One About FAITH

When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8 The Conversion of John Newton Captain John Newton wrote in his book, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade: With our ships, the great object is to be full. When the ship is there, it is thought desirable, she should take...

The One About Marriage: NEW POEM BY NEETU!

[Start the song now.] MARRY ME, M. Only once was I offered a hand in marriage just what I needed -- the sanctity.  It could have been the look in those eyes, in that moment you could be mine.  Our hands entwined for all to see I dreamed that dream believed it could be  You couldn’t...

John Unlike Me - REVISED February 11, 2018.

John Unlike Me is a pseudonym, a symbol even, for a truly amazing man that I met during the post-modern 1990's. I had newly come to faith in God in the mid-90's and I was progressing through a six-week interval some of you may be conscious of or have observed in new believers: It is a stage most...

THE GOSPEL SERIES: NewsTalkers 2018

THE GOSPEL SERIES New Testament Book: Gospel of Matthew The Gospel of Matthew is likely the most widely read of the four Gospels. Like all the Gospels it comes to us “anonymous,” but strong early church tradition supports Matthew as author. Matthew, a former tax collector, and one of the...

Pressed Into Service

When Were You Ever Pressed Into Service? How Did It Make You Feel? As a teen male, I was first pressed into service in an unappreciated role of "gay" high-schooler. Of course, in those years, it was nowhere a positive look. My life was a lonely, terribly unspectacular tale of beatings,...

THE GOSPEL SERIES: NewsTalkers 2018

THE GOSPEL SERIES New Testament Book: Gospel of Mark Although the Gospel is anonymous, there is adequate reason to ascribe the book with certainty to John Mark, the attendant of Peter. The Marcan [ascribe to Mark] authorship finds its earliest attestation in the writings of Papias from the...

Understand The Internet Troll

We're all adults on NewsTalkers, I assume. I am exchanging my points of view with others able to read, write, and comprehend me. Consequently, when it becomes overwhelming, "No more means No More!" When you are asked to stop. Just do it.  I reflect on this fact; That as I walk down the streets...

Understand the Internet Troll

We're all adults on NewsTalkers, I assume. I am exchanging my points of view with others able to read, write, and comprehend me. Consequently, when it becomes overwhelming, "No more means No More!" When you are asked to stop. Just do it.  I reflect on this fact; That as I walk down the streets...

"Anonymous" Gospel of Mark - CLARIFIED!

The Gospel of Mark Although the Gospel is anonymous, there is adequate reason to ascribe the book with certainty to John Mark, the attendant of Peter. (Wycliffe Bible Dictionary.) Amanumensis - A literary agent who is empowered to dictate, copy, sign, and/or publish what another person has...