Our idea of freedom today is often individualistic and autonomous from other people's ideas values and problems Peter had a counter-cultural message that true freedom comes only through community [... more]

In three teens were arrested for the murder of a fourteen-year-old According to news reports the younger teen was ldquo shot because of his athletic jacket rdquo Sentenced to life in prison the three spent thirty-six years behind bars before evidence surfaced that revealed their innocence Another man had committed the crime Before the judge released them as free men he issued an apology No matter how hard we try and no matter how much good is done by our officials human justice is often flawed We never have all the information Sometimes dishonest people manipulate the facts Sometimes we [... more]

The Bible explicitly states in its final book Revelation that the world will be ruled someday by an authoritarian leader called the beast or Anti-Christ Here is the all-encompassing degree of authority the Anti-Christ will have And he causes all the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free men and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell except the one who has the mark either the name of the beast or the [... more]