Pastors, Pulpits, and Politics

Last Sunday, over 25 pastors spoke about politics from the pulpit — and some of them even endorsed a presidential candidate.
As you may know, this goes against the tax code which restricts such speech by houses of worship.
According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 66% of the public opposes houses of […]

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Welcome to the new-look markdarb.com

markdarb.com is now using the Options WordPress Theme, after coming across it on a great guide (found on Digg) called 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Themes. I’m using the Blue Danube child theme.
The Options Theme is very useful. It comes bundled with features that I’ve wanted (and have had in some previously used themes and plugins), […]

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Debt Bondage: A Christian Perspective on the Paulson Bank Bailout

Dandelion Salad
by Dr. Michael Hudson
Global Research, October 5, 2008
An unprecedented popular protest led Congress to reject the Treasury’s initial bailout plan on Monday, September 29. Most commentators have noted how ironic and seemingly out-of-character it was that the bailout was defeated mainly by Republicans, and indeed by the party’s right-wing Bible Belt […]

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Chastity

This article was recently submitted to all-encompassingly for publication. It is one of a series of informational posts intended to address widely-held misconceptions about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. –Admin

Mormon doctrine teaches that sexual intimacy should take place between a man and a woman only when they are legally married; adultery, […]

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Satired Old Ass

My OutRage! colleague David Allison is spot on: “It’s the kind of remark you might expect from a drunk on a Saturday night, not someone in a supposedly responsible position,” he told the BBC, in response to this story.
I tip my hat to David. I was speechless.

A Church of England clergyman has been ordered […]

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Taxation without Representation: IRS vs The Church (Re: Flack #16)

I’ve been thinking more about this tension between Freedom of Speech and Separation of Church and State. We can toss about our ideals for Total World Domination by the Church or Elimination of Every Last Vestige of Unnessary Government Beaurocracy, but the fact is that we have a government, and it taxes us, and we […]

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The First Type of Evangelism

Our church’s verse for the year is “He that winneth souls is wise”, and while I have no problem with Scripture or focusing on winning souls, I’m a little underwhelmed with the modern concept of “soul winning”. And no, I’m not talking about my frustration with the concept of door-to-door evangelism, though before all is […]

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#5: Make Some Noise

Make Some Noise by Krystal Meyers From the Album: Make Some NoiseRelease Date: August 12, 2008 Download: $0.99
(Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in MP3 Songs > Christian & Gospel > Christian Rock list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.)

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Truth Decay

The catchy pithy title of this post is the same as that of a book I am currently reading by Dr Douglas Groothuis, associate professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary. That I am doing so coincides rather remarkably with several recent events that have all served to remind me that we are living in an […]

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Joe Jordan on Abductions and Spiritual Warfare

Follow this link to an MP3 file of a very recent interview of Joe Jordan on this subject. Joe, as you recall, was one of the central figures of the Roswell session that Greg Bishop blogged about dealing with deliverance from abductions via the name of Jesus. We blogged about it here as well. […]

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