Attached to our company in Korea was a medic by the name of Shanty Horrigan. Shanty was from the Bronx. He had lied about his age, and he had enlisted at 17 years old, and became a combat medic. Combat medics were a special type of …
Scholars who define "Gnosticism" generally agree that Gnostic philosophies had their source in the Zoroastrianism and Hinduism of Persia and India, and that these ideas were brought into the West via Alexander the Great's conquest of …
One beautiful summer afternoon, as a welder in a steel mill, I was performing a task that required a fair amount of concentration. I was alone, separated from others in my crew who were doing another part of the same job, and I remember …

(3) And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like his father David; he did everything as his father Joash had done. (4) However the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Jehoash's son, Amaziah, became king at age 25 and reigned until age 54. Like his father, he declined to do anything about the high places in his realm. In many respects, Amaziah's reign mirrored his father's; it began well …
Sunset on October 31 marks the beginning of All Hallows' Eve, better known as Halloween, the beginning of All Hallows (or Saints') Day. Many of our readers are already well familiar with the origins of this pagan celebration - a Celtic harvest festival that included spiritism and superstitious rituals, later co-opted by the Roman Catholic Church and joined with its celebration of All Saints' Day. The origins of this now-"Christian" holiday are easily researched, so they will not be detailed here. Most who celebrate this time see it as harmless fun, a chance for the kiddies to be creative …
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