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by R7ehr
Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: NYC requiring residents to use trash bins
Replies: 18
Views: 298

Re: NYC requiring residents to use trash bins

In these Western cities, the trash pickup isn't quite a monopoly. The way it works (assuming it hasn't changed) is that waste companies bid on the trash contract for the whole city, or county. These contracts are for a set amount of time. Then, when the contract is up, the bidding process is opened ...
by R7ehr
Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Churches Borrowing Money
Replies: 25
Views: 296

Re: Churches Borrowing Money

Meeting for church is one thing. Pretty many low cost options if you don't want to borrow and build. But school is another. And it is a lot more difficult when you live in a state that has zoning laws that exclude operating a school out of someone's shop or home. And you starting a new church hours ...
by R7ehr
Sun Dec 01, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: WSJ: Sales of Bibles Are Booming, Fueled by First-Time Buyers and New Versions
Replies: 0
Views: 80

WSJ: Sales of Bibles Are Booming, Fueled by First-Time Buyers and New Versions

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/sale ... s-d402460e

Publishers attribute a 22% jump in Bible sales this year to rising anxiety, a search for hope, or highly focused marketing and designs
by R7ehr
Sun Dec 01, 2024 11:09 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: NYC requiring residents to use trash bins
Replies: 18
Views: 298

Re: NYC requiring residents to use trash bins

Wow, congratulations New York! Good job. Welcome to 1985!
by R7ehr
Sat Nov 30, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Imitating the Early Church
Replies: 24
Views: 725

Re: Imitating the Early Church

Back then anointing in this case, and in the anointing the sick, was doing one’s normal toiletries. In the case of the former, it was directed to do in order to appear normal. In the case of the latter, it was directed to be done as an act of faith that healing would follow. RZehr, You got your lat...
by R7ehr
Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Imitating the Early Church
Replies: 24
Views: 725

Re: Imitating the Early Church

Your counterarguments remind me a lot of the cavelier attitude of the Evangelical movement. That the gospel has to fit into every culture, time, place, and people, so a lot of things in the gospel that don't fit into EVERY culture needs to be left by the wayside. Head coverings, nonresistance, divo...
by R7ehr
Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: $2 Billion went to abortion providers
Replies: 16
Views: 484

Re: $2 Billion went to abortion providers

https://lozierinstitute.org/world-leaders-in-abortion-top-10-countries/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20second,number%20of%20abortions%20each%20year. The United States is second in the world in number of abortions each year. If Planned Parenthood were included for comparison, it would rank six...
by R7ehr
Fri Nov 29, 2024 9:56 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022
Replies: 3050
Views: 234548

Re: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022

I see that Zelenskyy has said that there are conditions where he would cease fighting without regaining his whole country back.
by R7ehr
Fri Nov 29, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump Team 2025
Replies: 259
Views: 8640

Re: Trump Team 2025

My Dad is pro-Russia and not pro-war. He hates the war and has lots of anxiety about it, but agrees with Russia’s rationale and believes they have a right to protect themselves from NATO and the West. I do think it’s a complicated situation. What I find helpful engaging Dad is the reminder that the...
by R7ehr
Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:09 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump Team 2025
Replies: 259
Views: 8640

Re: Trump Team 2025

Is anyone who is pro-Russia, pro-war? That would make more sense than saying anyone who is pro-Ukraine is pro-war. Being sympathetic to Ukraine is not pro war. I think it is more difficult to make the same case for Russia. That someone can be sympathetic to Russia without being pro war. Maybe you ca...