Kermit Zarley

Nearly all nations are presently being represented at the United Nations' climate change conference, called COP29. It is being held from November 11th to the 22nd in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Nations are discussing items about the increasing temperature of earth's atmosphere that has been caused mostly, or entirely, by humans burning fossil fuels since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, in the mid-1850s. Climate scientists claim that this temperature increase of about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit is worsening weather patterns, melting ice, and therefore causing sea levels to rise. And this increase in temperature is not only rising but accelerating.

Just about all Christians celebrate two rituals no matter what church denomination they belong to: (1) water baptism once and (2) communion service often. Jesus instituted the latter at the so-called Last Supper, which was the Passover meal. All three synoptic gospels of the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—tell about it. The Gospel of John does not record it, and this omission suggests that its author knew that previous writings had been circulating among believers—such as perhaps one or more of the synoptics—that included this account about Jesus instituting communion, which also has been called “the Lord's Table.”

4B Movement A female movement has started in South Korea called “the 4B movement.

The 1973 Oil Embargo The traditional two-state solution for the now sixty-year old Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been a non-starter. I decided

There is a striking parallel in ancient history in which the prophets Jesus and Jeremiah similarly prophesied two separate attacks on their own nation of Israel that occurred forty years later, resulting in the destruction of Jerusalem. It shows God operates

Scottie Scheffler—the #1 pro golfer in Official World Golf Ranking for the past 82 consecutive weeks (he has been #1 for a total of 117 weeks)—has this

Many times, Jesus would heal someone and then tell that person and others not to spread the news about it. Yet occasionally, he healed someone and told that person to go tell others about it. Why this seeming contradiction?

I wrote days ago about The Quest for the Historical Jesus at the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting I attended late last month.

Archaeological Find of a Cross-shaped Amulet A Popular Mechanics online article today reports that a Christian amulet recently was discovered

Explore the biblical prophecies of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 20. Discover key differences in their roles, millennial interpretations, and end-times significance.