Sep
Meatballs and Chilean miners
posted in Daily Devotional by Jim Denison
Credit: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
When are meatballs, chicken and rice a feast? When they’re the first hot meal you’ve eaten in three weeks. Today’s BBC website tells us that Chilean miners trapped underground since August 5 had been eating only glucose tablets and high-protein milk. Yesterday the hot food was piped through a tube to the 33 men who are trapped 2,300 feet below the surface. Keep reading »
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Sep
Glenn Beck and spiritual awakening
posted in Daily Devotional by Jim Denison
Photo by Luke X Martin via Flickr
Is Glenn Beck “the most potent political force in American life today,” as ABC’s Rick Klein describes him? Was last Saturday’s Restoring Honor rally on the National Mall a political event or a religious assembly? How many came? (Estimates range from 65,000 to 650,000.) What does the event mean today? Keep reading »
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Aug
A frozen corpse, a chimpanzee and Simon Cowell
posted in Daily Devotional by Jim Denison
“He was basically in a deep freeze for the last 21 years.” That’s how a public safety expert described the corpse of William Holland, an American mountaineer who fell 1000 feet to his death in the Canadian Rockies in 1989. His body had been preserved by glacial ice; when it thawed, hikers found him earlier this month. Today’s BBC website reports that more bodies are out there—at least two other climbers missing in Jasper National Park since the 1970s have never been found. Keep reading »
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