Monthly Archives: September 2009

Taking Up Serpents

"They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." – Mark 16:18 From the emergence in the early 1900s of Pentecostalism from the Holiness movement, various denominations arose whose members speak in tongues (glossolalia), cast out [...]
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Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

On April 1, 1933, the Nazis began their boycott of Jewish businesses across the country.  It was not the first indication of the persecutions in store.  A week earlier, thirty brownshirts had broken into Jewish homes in a small town in southwest Germany, herded the occupants into the town hall, and beaten them up.  The [...]
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Onward Christian Soldier

According to French President Jacques Chirac, George Bush told him that the Iraq war was needed to bring on the apocalypse: In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old [...]
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End of Summer

They, only set on sport and play, Unweetingly importuned Their own destruction to come speedy upon them. So fond are mortal men, Fallen into wrath divine, As their own ruin on themselves to invite. - J. Milton, Samson Agonistes 01-Grails // Predestination Blues 02-Comus // Diana 03-Pascal Comelade // Rythmos Del Fedayin 04-Robbie Basho // [...]
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Sasquatch Dreams…Sasquatch Nightmare!

People say that they look like monkeys. Monkeys make you smile, but a bigfoot strikes you with horror Russian writer Ivan Turgenev met someone that looked like a troglodyte. The horror of the encounter remained in his mind throughout his whole life. It happened, when Turgenev was a young man. Years after, he told the [...]
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