by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 17, 2025 | Bart Ehrman, Christ and the Church, Church History, Jesus Resurrection, Jesus Seminar, Jesus the Messiah, John Dominic Crossan, Resurrection
The celebration of the resurrection of Jesus will take place for many this Sunday. For most people these days, it is more-or-less a cultural event. I don’t necessarily mean they deny that the resurrection happened, but that they believe it based on their family and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 9, 2024 | Antisemitism, Atheism, Bible, Born Again, Christ, Church, Church History, context, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Liberal Left, Progressives
Some have been shocked at what seems like a sudden explosion of anti-Semitism on university campuses. It is shocking, but perhaps we should not be all that astonished. Why should we be so surprised? William F. Buckley Jr. raised the alert in his 1951 book, God and Man...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 14, 2023 | Christ, Christmas, Church History, Deity of Christ, Incarnation, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jewish, Virgin birth
The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights) began on December 7 and will end today. It is an annual celebration of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, Israel, which took place in the second century BCE (Yes! Jews were living in the land long...
by Richard Howe | Sep 14, 2023 | Born Again, Church History, Cults and Religions, Deity of Christ, January/February 1996, karma, MCOI Journal, New Age, Reincarnation, Resurrection
(Originally printed in the January/February 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) Introduction No doubt, some in our society today find the doctrine of reincarnation to be strange, at best; and false, at worst. In Christian circles, especially, reincarnation is looked upon...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 22, 2022 | Christmas, Church History, Faith tested, Grief, Incarnation
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Christmas Bells) The poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was composed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 11, 2021 | Church History, Depression, Discipleship, Economy, History, Holiness, Persecution, Sin
Joy once asked her mother’s mother, Grandma Price, how in the world she had raised 6 children, one not yet four years old, in a converted garage in Chicago during the Great Depression? Her husband had died in 1934, leaving her to manage all on her own. Even as we type...
