by Gary Leazer | Apr 8, 2003 | Opinion
All Kurds dream of a free Kurdistan, and they hope the overthrow of Saddam Hussein will help them turn dream into reality. The Medes and the Chaldeans captured Nineveh in 612 B.C., 130 years after Jonah was sent to “that great city” (Jon 1:2). Cyrus,...
by Gary Leazer | Feb 18, 2003 | Opinion
The first words a baby hears after birth is the word of witness. The last words a person is supposed to hear before death is the word of witness. It is supposed to be a unifying statement among the world’s one billion Muslims. But the word of witness is also a...
by Gary Leazer | Jan 21, 2003 | Opinion
The origin of the Chinese New Year is centuries old and lost in a haze of legend and myth. All legends agree that the word “Nian,” a Chinese term meaning “year,” was the name of a cruel monster that preyed on and swallowed people the night...
by Gary Leazer | Sep 3, 2002 | Opinion
Rosh Hashanah, which literally means the head or first of the year, commemorates the creation of the world. Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the “Jewish New Year.” It is celebrated on the first and second days of the seventh month of the Jewish calendar,...
by Gary Leazer | Aug 8, 2002 | Opinion
In a full-page advertisement in the July 10, 2002, issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (and reportedly in newspapers around the world), The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification—a Unification Church organization—reports on an alleged spirit-world...
