No Protestant on GOP ticket for first time ever

No Protestant on GOP ticket for first time ever

For the first time in the nation’s political history, the Republican ticket will be absent a Protestant as either the presidential or vice presidential candidate. Mitt Romney is Mormon and Paul Ryan is Catholic. Yet the Protestant, even evangelical heavy Iowa and Nebraska delegates who are filling the convention hall in downtown Tampa seemed unfazed […]

Sun Myung Moon: Son of the broken-hearted God

Sun Myung Moon: Son of the broken-hearted God

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 16, 2012 By Michael Breen [Originally published by Korea Times] On a freezing night in December 1950 during the last refugee exodus from North Korea, a heretic Christian preacher named Moon Sun-Myung stepped onto an iceflow and pushed out into the Imjin River. When he reached the far side, U.S. and […]

S. Korea on track to surpass U.S. in total number of Christian missionaries

S. Korea on track to surpass U.S. in total number of Christian missionaries

Prominent evangelical leaders in the U.S. joined famous Korean pastors at the Korean World Mission Conference, the largest gathering of Korean missionaries worldwide, in the Chicago area this week to celebrate a critical milestone in the world’s fastest growing missionary movement. The number of Korean missionaries in 169 countries has exceeded 20,000 – more than […]

Apocalypses through history: The world was supposed to end … often

Apocalypses through history: The world was supposed to end … often

Crazies may be on the street shouting about this or that, but it’s nothing new….Here is a selection of some of history’s greatest apocalyptic whiffs. 634 BC – Many Romans believed that Romulus, the city’s founder, had been visited by 12 mystical eagles, and that each one represented 10 years of the lifespan of the […]

Graham: Today’s secularism ‘is . . . anti-Christ’

Graham: Today’s secularism ‘is . . . anti-Christ’

WASHINGTON — Franklin Graham, son of American evangelist Billy Graham, said Sunday the state of world affairs could be construed as the end of days. Graham made his comments on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour.” Asked if Easter is about sacrifice or love, Graham said it’s about both. “It’s all of that,” Graham said. […]