by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 25, 2021 | Depression, Despair, Fear, Pilgrims, Suffering, Thanksgiving
If we said there is a great deal of angst and bitter division in our nation these days, I think most Americans would agree. Thankfully, Thanksgiving is approaching, and perhaps we may get a momentary reprieve from the never-ending cultural quarrel that besets us. It...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 18, 2021 | Branch Davidians, David Koresh, Heaven's Gate, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Latter-Rain Movement
Forty-three years ago today, November 18, 1978, over nine hundred men, women, and children in “Jonestown,” Guyana, committed suicide or were shot. They were followers of the Reverend Jim Jones and members of his Peoples Temple. The group had moved En masse...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 11, 2021 | Brian McLaren, Hell, Jehovah's Witnesses, Redemption, Richard Rohr, Rob Bell, Salvation, Scripture, Seventh-Day Adventist, Suffering
Before the first seven notes of the song are finished, nearly everyone knows it is Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. He first wrote the song in 1955, recorded it in 1957, and included it on a compilation album All Aboard the Blue Train in 1962. The song skyrocketed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 4, 2021 | Agnostic, Atheism, Atheist, Authoritarian, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Courtship, Remnant Fellowship, Weigh Down Workshop
Children of the Corn was a short story written by Stephen King and first published in 1977. It has since been adapted for film and television. It is a simple tale of a small town inhabited by a cult of children, all under the age of nineteen. The Christian church and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 28, 2021 | Bible, Education, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Morality, Progressives, Roman Catholic, Sola Scriptura
During the sixteenth century battle between the reformers and the Roman Catholic church, the reformers developed the Five Solas which demonstrated their core beliefs in contrast to the Catholic Church from whom they were separating. The first of the five was Sola...
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