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Perhaps there will be policies such as the banning of fracking that will cause energy prices to face upward pressure but these may be offset by reductions in economic activity which will mean less energy consumption and thus surplus supplies. The economic contraction would of course be accompanied b...

I was once bamboozled into watching an hour-long video by Cahn. It seemed to assume a familiarity with harbingers or shemitahs or some such oddities, which I had only vaguely heard of. Made no sense to me, and pretty much dampened any enthusiasm I might have been tempted to generate toward him. The...

How about an award for the most humble? or the person w an answer who just happens to be a pro no matter what the question is. I thought about nominating myself as a pro crastinator, but I'll wait a while. This may be a natural manifestation of an innate talent for which one seeks recognition, thou...

Well, Ragpicker, maybe it is just that the people of the first state are uniquely outstanding. Sorry for your loss.

To quote a once popular expression of culinary opinion while betraying a penchant for musical arrangements not necessarily condoned on this forum and not claiming any particular familiarity with the dishes mentioned, and further perhaps raising a cultural reference too obscure to be recognized; &quo...

Seems the solution to the "hypothetical" is obvious. Create a situation where the wife can kill him in self defense. The church pays her defense lawyer. Killing is forgivable even if divorce is not. After the fact, the man is dead, the wife confesses and repents, everyone forgives and happ...

Maybe to narrow the question a bit, let's consider a scenario wherein two persons of opposite sexual persuasion, for reasons of retention of individual property possession or government benefits to one party or the other, decline to obtain a legally available marriage license from the state, but wis...

Is it legitimate for the church to bless unions between a man and woman without a state issued license? Or why should the church involve the state in a religious ceremony? If there is no state license involved, who decides if a couple is married or simply co-habitating? And no, I am not contemplatin...

Is "Liberal Anabaptist" perhaps the definition of Oxymoron? Unless one confines the search to varying degrees of perceived apostasy within the legalistic wing of the church?

Taking offense because a political leader does not conduct himself or herself according to proper Christian standards betrays a lack of understanding of the appropriate application of separation of Church and State, i.e., two Kingdom Theology. The kingdom of Christ and the state is not even apples ...