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Christians Experiencing Discrimination in Iraq; In ISIS-Controlled Northwestern Syria Suffering Persecution, early-December 2022
Turkish internet Christian news site, Sat7, on December 9, 2022, disseminated for its Turkish readership two articles that had originally been published in English. The article concerning Iraqi Christians was based on a FIDES wire that was picked up by several internet sites. One can be found at: https://www.worthynews.com/80474-iraq-christian-families-are-leaving-in-droves . The article on the persecution…
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“You have opened My ears” or “A body You have prepared for Me”: An Examination of Psalm 40:5-7 (LXX)/6-8 (Hebrew)
Psalm 40:6 ~ 6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.[a]Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” Hebrews…
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Christian Humanism – A Panacea for the Russian Condition?
In his editorial, In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct of Self-Preservation (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/125354824/posts/4359682819 for my translation), Russian intellectual Aleksandr Tsipko addresses Russia’s propensity, because of its authoritarian power structure, to “eternally intrud[e] into the world of the unpredictable.” This tendency, he argues, is based on an autocratic leader’s irrational intuition,…
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Book Review: Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War, by Ken Adelman
Ken Adelman’s masterpiece, running to a quite manageable 375 pages including notes and a bibliography, uses the October 1986 meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev as the springboard to prove his thesis that it was indeed the catalyst for…
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In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct for Self-Preservation
Russian intellectual and social philosopher Aleksandr Sergeyevich Tsipko on June 6, 2022, wrote the following opinion piece on the Newspaper Ideas and People internet site. By utilizing the Platonic philosophy of the partıcular vs the universal, Tsipko speaks truth to power, excoriating Russia’s return to an autocratic system of government which in turn led to…
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One Holy Catholic Church – Not!
This post is the result of having just read two volumes that offer convincing arguments against the quasi-ecclesiastical organization (this nomenclature is mine and should not be attributed to the authors) called the Roman Catholic Church: A Primer On Roman Catholicism by John Gerstner; and, Evangelical Answers: A Critique of Current Roman Catholic Apologists by…
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“Alone I Go Out On The Road,” by Mikhail Lermontov
Although I have read some Lermontov, for example, Hero of our Time and Caucasus Captive, I was not aware of this poem of his, the first line of which was applied to an article that I was reading. Since Lermontov’s writings are among the best of the 19th-century Russian Romanticism literary movement, I have decided…
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Being Infatuated with Anti-Western Ideas Has Become a Dangerous Path for Russia
The following is an opinion piece published on the Moscow Komsomolets news site written by Aleksandr Tsipko, who, as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1972, has enjoyed a long career as a social philosopher and political scientist. He was a proponent of Gorbachev’s perestroika strategy and is the director of the…
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Church In Southeastern Türkiye Targeted Again, Early September 2022
The Turkish news website, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on September 8, 2022, posted an item in which an up close and personal account was given of the planned murder of three men, who represent the Association of Salvation (Kurtuluş) Churches [1] in the southeastern province of Malatya in Türkiye. The murder there in 2007 of…
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A 1500-Year-old Inscription Points to the House of the Apostle Peter
The TV and internet news organization, Sat 7 Türk Haber, which promotes its mission as “news for Christians from Christians,” issued the above-entitled Turkish language article on September 5, 2022, from an unidentified original report. [As translation by Lahbrais O’Coileain] A team composed of Israeli and American archaeologists uncovered a 1500-year-old inscription on a centuries-old…
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