To be seen on Canadian television: Canadian broadcast journalist Martin Himel, based in Israel since the 1980s, has produced an ambitious 13-part Vision TV documentary series on religious faith. Twist of Faith focuses on how religion shapes current events and how current events affect belief. and th...

The Pope will be coming to Israel (part of the Holy Land) and there seems to be a problem: Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed on Sunday that he was coming to Israel in May, will definitely visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, The Jerusalem Post was told on Monday. But he will not tour that part of...

For a long time I have had a love/hate relationship with Scott Weiland. Not like a real, personal relationship but like as a fan and music lover. When the Stone Temple Pilots first became big on the radio back in the early 90’s I was kind of digging their sound. It wasn’t the typical gru...

Sooner or later, every site or application will fail. However the consequences depend not only on how the failure is managed but also on how it is communicated. Recently the web hosting company Media Temple and even Google have well illustrated how hard it is for modern connected organizations to re...

In April 2007, I transfered Meandering Passage to Media Temple (MT) based upon the promise of their Grid Service (GS) hosting solution…scaleable and able to spread a load across a wide array of servers and disk units to give reliable hosting. What I’ve experienced with Media Temple and t...

Will the pope act like Belshazzar or Cyrus? Will Rome learn from history and receive instruction from the Bible or harden their hearts and be destroyed like pharaoh and Babylon? A House of Prayer For All Peoples? Jewish guards prevent Christians and Jews from exercising their religious right to pray...

If you’ve got substantial connection time at Salt Lake City International, you can spend time just hanging out, or take advantage of your ground time and get in a little sightseeing and cultural expedition. Between the hours of 9 am – 6:30 pm, a complimentary van service makes scheduled trips be...

By: Apogee In a recent post I suggested that focus on the temple at a young age might conflate religious aspiration with hormones.  This got fMh’s attention, so I have been asked to expound. In Cinderella, the impoverished waif aspires to be a princess.  The castle, and the ball at the castle, a...

"And they will build Me a sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst."(Exodus 25:8)Adar 3, 5769/February 27, 2009 Fourteen words in all, (in Hebrew only five), this singular commandment which appears in this week's Torah reading of Terumah, (Exodus 25:1-27:19), is short, succinct and so direct that e...

From a Washington Times editorial: Mrs. Clinton's wrong message on religion Monday, February 23, 2009 During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Asian tour, a Japanese student asked her how to "eliminate the prejudice towards the Islamic world" in the context of the war on terrorism. Mrs. Clinton r...