Making Magic Between December of 2017 and February of 2018, the world was taken by storm by two films - landmark releases from two major film franchises. The first was Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi, which in typical Star Wars form destroyed box office competition. Shortly after, the…
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Authority
Authority On July 8, at 4:30 p.m., delegates of the Seventh-day Adventist church at the 2015 General Conference session in San Antonio, TX, voted 58% to 41% not to allow individual geographical divisions to decide for themselves whether to ordain women to ministry. Coming as it did after…
You Shall Not Kill
Thou Shalt Not Kill In Exodus 20:13, we find a simple, seemingly unambiguous command: "Thou shalt not kill" (KJV). Taken at face value, this commandment suggests that all taking of life is forbidden - a reality that seems odd in light of the thousands of deaths through…
Justice & Mercy
Justice & Mercy It was the early 1980s, and the AIDS epidemic was sweeping through North America, making people into social pariahs and killing them in weeks. Affecting mainly gay men and drug abusers, AIDS was so stigmatized that President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even refer to it by name.…
Peculiar Preachers
Peculiar Preachers Shane Claiborne isn’t about to win any beauty contests. Tall and almost painfully skinny, with glasses, a scraggly beard and dreadlocks that he pulls back with a faded bandana, he has the intense, slightly crazed look in his eyes that you often find in street preachers. When…