America Magazine: “Stand up and be counted.” In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, one might find this pithy phrase in the voter guides produced by the Christian Coalition, American Family Association or other evangelical political action groups that…
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Thursday November 1st, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“I like the pope. I like that he’s making the Catholic Church more open to bring people in and not exclude them. He’s a man of the people. I like what he stands for: humility, reaching out to others and…
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Wednesday October 31st, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“People say, ‘What are the saints all about? Why are you praying to the saints?’ And when you understand what they mean by what they’re saying, there’s a whole lot more commonality [that we have with Roman Catholics]. There’s still…
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Will the Trump Presidency Lead to Renewed Dialogue Between Catholics and Evangelicals?
Tuesday October 30th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsProphetically Speaking…
Tuesday October 30th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“I think one of the great mistakes in how we rationalize things in this country currently is that we have a tendency to perpetuate the ideology that we should focus on our differences, rather than to focus on our commonalities. When…
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Ambassador Haley: ‘It Would Be Tragic’ If Abuse Scandal Blinds People to Catholic Church’s ‘Good Works’
Monday October 29th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsCNS News: During her keynote speech at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner on Thursday, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said that while the Catholic Church is taking action to address the “moral failing” of the sexual abuse scandal, the church…
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Monday October 29th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting…
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State Tells Christian Filmmakers: Make Same-Sex Marriage Films or Spend 90 Days in Jail
Friday October 26th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsCBN News: Two Christian filmmakers appeared before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul Tuesday to challenge Minnesota state law which they say illegally forces them to produce and create films expressing messages that contradict their core beliefs. …
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Friday October 26th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.” Heywood Broun, (1888-1939) American journalist, founded the American Newspaper Guild. Source: New York World, 23 October 1926. Source Reference Heywood Broun Quote
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“Poliolike” Childhood Muscle-Weakening Disease Reappears
Thursday October 25th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsScientific American: A poliolike condition that left more than 100 children in the U.S. at least partially paralyzed in 2014 is back, and not much more is known this time around, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
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Floods in Niger claim 45 lives since June
Wednesday October 24th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsNews 24: Forty-five people have died in the arid West African country of Niger in flooding since June, and nearly 209,000 have been affected, the UN said on Tuesday. The rains destroyed nearly 17,400 homes, killed more than 33,000 livestock…
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Wednesday October 24th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.” John Viscount Morley, 1838-1923), of Blackburn. Source: On Compromise, 1874. Source Reference John Viscount Morley Quote
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Now the U.S. Justice Department is probing the Catholic Church for Abuse
Tuesday October 23rd, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsCNN: On Thursday we learned that federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania have taken a step long-sought by survivors of clergy sexual abuse: They launched a federal investigation into the Catholic Church. Seven of Pennsylvania’s eight dioceses told CNN that they have received…
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