[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION] It has picked up almost universally positive reviews and is being tipped for Oscars glory next year. Now Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has begun to pick up praise from a surprising source – Christian critics who say the 3D space spectacular celebrates the presence of God in the universe. Paul […]
Pinned inside her mangled Mercedes, seriously injured and fading fast, Katie Lentz turned to her rescuers on the lonely open stretch of Missouri highway and asked them to pray. Struck head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning, emergency workers had been battling for an hour and a half to free Lentz, but to no […]
In a note found scrawled on the inside of the boat in which he was hiding at the time of his arrest, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, claimed responsibility for the chilling April 15 attack, dismissed victims as “collateral damage” and looked forward to joining his dead older brother in paradise. Billed part suicide […]
Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead — and some return with stories. … “The evidence we have so far is that human consciousness does not become annihilated,” said Parnia, a doctor at Stony Brook University Hospital and director of the school’s resuscitation research program. “It […]
Long after a near-death experience, people recall the incident more vividly and emotionally than real and false memories, new research suggests. “It’s really something that stays in the mind of people as a clear trace, and it’s even more clear than a real memory,” said Vanessa Charland-Verville, a neuropsychologist in the Coma Science Group at […]
Is it possible for the living to contact the dead? Capilano University psychologist Leonard George was determined to find out. The noted author and researcher travelled to upstate New York – to the global centre of Spiritualism, a religion that emerged in the 19th century and is based on the belief that humans can connect […]
Paul Kurtz, who became a national leader in efforts to debunk paranormal phenomena and pseudoscience — what he called “insidious” gimmicks that had blossomed into an industry profiting on ignorance, died Oct. 20 at his home in Amherst, N.Y. He was 86. … Dr. Kurtz taught philosophy for 25 years at the State University of New […]
Escape from North Korea, the Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad, by journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes how Chinese Christians and churches are supporting escapees in defiance of laws prohibiting such assistance. How do Christians explain their willingness to risk so much for the North Koreans coming into China? It’s a really powerful example of Christian […]
Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis. During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion “shut down” and that he then experienced “something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe […]
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 […]
