Tag Archives: Faith

Why I Keep an Empty Coke Can on My Shelf

Posted on June 16, 2018 by

When I was young, my parents or other adults occasionally quoted to me the old saw, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” I haven’t heard that for a long time. It’s as if the maxim has dropped out … Continue reading →

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Heaven Does Not Have an EB-5 Visa Program

Posted on June 24, 2017 by

In recent weeks, many of us learned for the first time that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services offers an employment-based visa with permanent resident status to foreigners who are willing to invest large sums of money in commercial … Continue reading →

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Promising a Better Future, Delivering a Better Present

Posted on October 1, 2016 by

The British ocean liner R.M.S. Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. As people rushed to the lifeboats, a woman passenger asked the captain what to do. The captain, according to Erik Larson’s book, Dead Wake: … Continue reading →

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You’ve Got to Believe It to See It

Posted on September 10, 2016 by

There is in Christianity an emphasis on faith that is, to my knowledge, unequalled in any major religion. In most religions, faith is presupposed. In Christianity it is demanded. In general, religions can be summed up with a set of … Continue reading →

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