![]() I picked up my phone, clicked it open, and found that it was still on Twitter. “Stay there, Jack, don’t move,” I told him, because he clearly understands English. Jack began licking his paw and using it to clean his face. ![]() ![]() I had about twenty minutes to kill before an appointment with the gynecologist, followed by a trip to the DMV (I like to schedule the worst errands back to back so I can just get them over and done with, like ripping off a Band-Aid), so I turned the TV on and put on an episode of The Office. After sending it, I clicked my phone off and tossed it onto the couch next to me. I sent this tweet in the middle of 2017, right after Bill Cosby had been arrested for drugging women. ![]() “As a Philadelphian and fan of his shows and comedy, I can say that Bill Cosby deserves every ounce of that jail time. ![]()
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Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall was one of the earlier short stories he submitted in his writing career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The need for a coherent treatment of these and related problems, and one that is not concerned simply to propagate a particular universalistic theory, seems undeniable. This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth the range of possible mythical functions the effects of developed social institutions and literacy the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims. Almost none of these problems has been convincingly handled, even in a provisional way, up to the present, and this failure has vitiated not only such few general discussions as exist of the nature, meanings and functions of myths but also, in many cases, the detailed assessment of individual myths of different cultures. ![]() ![]() VOM was really created to inform and inspire the American Church and to provide practical ways they can reach back into hostile and restricted nations and help Christians still undergoing persecution today. He shared the stories of the torture chamber and he shared the stories of the prison, and not just his story, but he said, “Hey, there are still pastors in those communist prisons.” And that’s really why and how VOM was founded. Lord Jesus, you humbled yourself to redeem our weaknesses. Richard came to the West and did exactly what he was told not to do. For it is in the dirty water of the basin in the Upper Room, that is, in our own weakness, that we see reflected the true face of our God For every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God (1 Jn 4:2). But don’t talk about us, don’t talk about what we did to you.” When they were ransomed out of Romania, the police took them aside and said, “You can preach all you want now, you can talk about God all you want. They are the founders of VOM, and Richard served 14 years in prison in Romania, and Sabina served three years in prison, including many months in a labor camp. A cinematic retelling of the testimony of Voice of the Martyrs founder, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, as written in his international bestseller 'Tortured for Christ'. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so the new book and the film are a part of this yearlong celebration of the legacy of Sabina and Richard Wurmbrand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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