Dr Ryland, when dying, comforted his weeping children: "Keep near the Lord, my dear children, and he will be with you." He wasw much engaged in secret prayer; and like Dr. Scott, he prayed and thought aloud.  "Spirit of Christ," said he, "O take the things of Christ, and show them to my soul!" "O m...

by Paula Harrington Recently, a friend and sister in Christ who lives nearly ten thousand miles away e-mailed telling me of her conversion and what life is like for a Christian living in her country. As I read her story, I was brought to tears. Due to the law in her country, neither she nor her husb...

Description: There are 345 conflicts ongoing in the world today, but one gets more attention than all the others. Vilified: Telling Lies About Israel is a hard-hitting short film from AJC exposing the lies and libels to which Israel has been subjected, particularly during the recent conflict with Ha...

Bacn: Email you want, but not right now. Thanks JoeCascio on Twitter for this one. You have the problem with Spam, which we all hate.. but then you start to get all these email notifications from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, that start to clog up your inbox.  They are not emails you don’t w...

The Name Inspector has recently learned about Lard Butt , a new athletic apparel company based here in Seattle. This is a great example of naming done right. First, there are the positive associations of lard, a filling and economical ingredient that makes fried foods taste great. The word lard also...

The picture shown here is believed to be the last photograph of Abraham Lincoln. The photo was recently discovered in a family photo album of Ulysses S. Grant. His great-great grandson suspected that the tall human figure in the center......

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Friendiligence: the amount of time and effort it takes to accept, add and maintain your social network friends! People are actually trying to make this a word.. and others are trying to say that it is the act of gathering intelligence on your friends through social networks.  Perhaps a look at the ...

When I was little I went to a nice school in a leafy suburb in Adelaide. It was the 1970s so we wore roman sandals and my uniform was pink with a zip down the front. What a crazy uniform. I think they have changed it to something far more conservative now. Roman sandals? The toe-jam was insane in...

The chain of related albums picks up again after an interval for Van, as Jackie Leven has played with David Thomas of Pere Ubu as Ubudoll. I once saw them play together, at the Borderline in 2004, and was impressed that Jackie Leven had miked up the floor by his foot — his boot was the only pe...