by Leroy Seat | Mar 14, 2022 | Opinion
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for March 27, and the apocalyptic black comedy “Don’t Look Up” is nominated for the best picture. In that engaging movie, warnings about a Mount Everest-sized comet on course to crash into earth with extinction-level...
by Jim Somerville | Dec 3, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on December 2, 2012. Luke 21:25-36 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People...
by Yonat Shimron | May 20, 2011 | News
(RNS) Harold Camping’s campaign to warn Christians that the rapture is coming on Saturday (May 21) may have won him a band of followers, especially among those who have reportedly quit jobs or used up their life savings. But Camping’s acolytes may pale in comparison...
by James L. Evans | May 16, 2011 | Opinion
I worked with a preacher once who was convinced we were living in history’s last days. He was sure Jesus was about to return in what Christians call the “second coming.” In what I thought was a bizarre act of lunacy, he put off buying his car tags, which were due on a...
by Michael Helms | Dec 29, 2010 | Opinion
What’s ahead for us in 2011? Will unemployment drop? Will Congress learn to work together or will there be more partisan bickering and stalemating? What will be the next technological breakthrough? Will our military pull out of Afghanistan? Will there be another...
