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Our readings this week take up the theme of faith, both Israel’s faith under the old covenant and the faith to which we are called in the new. Jesus urges us not to despair even if we feel our faith is pitiful. God can work wonders using small material. 1. Our First Reading is a famous passage from Habakkuk: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4:How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and...

The poet Mary Oliver writes, “I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.” In another of her poems, she writes, “Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a tree.” She climbs up the tree in this poem and writes the number of leaves she counts in a book, and when she is done, or gives up trying to count them all, she is “half-crazy at the wonder of it – the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches.” This wonder at the meticulous detail in nature strikes me in Barbara Clements...

You'll recall that Sheriff Carlos Bolanos sent four investigators to raid the garage in Indiana, after receiving a call from a wealthy donor from Atherton who had ordered a Batmobile.Sheriff Carlos Bolanos admits he launched the investigation after one of his donors, Atherton realtor Sam Anagnostou, called to complain that his $210,000 Batmobile had been delayed. Bolanos sent a team of four investigators to raid the Batmobile garage in Logansport, Indiana....Turns out the sheriff had never done anything like this before, either. High-level sources in his department say Bolanos has never sent a team of investigators outside the state for...

“‘He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony’” (John 3:31–32). Jesus Christ is the one “who descended from heaven” (3:13). As such, He is “above all”—Christ is sovereign over the universe in general, and the world of humanity in particular. In the old covenant, “God . . . spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets” (Heb. 1:1). But in...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with Alex Marlow today, laying into the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) and questioning why Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is attempting to rescue the derided media cartel bill. “I’m not sure why the Senator did that, I do plan to talk to him,” Rep. Jordan, who has opposed the media cartel bill since its inception over a year ago, told Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow.

AN EXPLOSION has rocked a Russian airbase in Crimea as horrified tourists watched from a nearby beach. The blast comes just hours after Putin's humiliated troops were forced to pull out of a key occupied city in Ukraine. The cause of the explosion, which sent sparks and plumes of smoke into the air, is currently unknown. But according to the Russian-appointed head of occupied Sevastopol, the explosion was caused when on board munitions detonated on a military aircraft that overshot the runway at Belbek airport. There were no immediate reports of missile strikes on the plane or airport by Ukraine....

The first witness in the civil corruption trial against Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith testified Friday. Linda Wallace testified that she was secretary in the sheriff’s office who processed CCWs, or concealed weapon permits. Smith faces five counts of willful and corrupt misconduct for allegedly giving those permits to campaign donors or vips.

One of the most encouraging scriptures in the Bible is “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7, NKJV). Paul goes on to describe those earthen vessels that are dying men, troubled on every side, perplexed, persecuted, cast down. Even though never forsaken or in despair, those men being used by God are constantly under the burden of their bodies, waiting anxiously to be clothed with new ones. God mocks man’s power. He laughs at our egotistical efforts at being good. Scripture says,...

Unique ceramic figures were discovered in the excavations carried out this year in the ancient city of Klazomenai in the Urla district of Izmir. Among the artifacts were the 2,500-year-old a rare perirrhanterion (wash-basin) and the wash-basin foot and base decorated with chariot races.Experts said An embossed and painted example adorned with figures in this way has never been found before.The perirrhanterion is a special type of louterion (water-basin) used for ritual washing in sanctuaries. Although many examples of stone (marble) and ceramics were found in previous excavations, no examples of fantastic mythological creatures and chariot races belonging to the...

Located in the eastern province of Van in Turkey, the falling water level of Lake Van, with the decrease in precipitation and excessive evaporation caused by the increase in temperature, revealed the 11-step harbor at the bottom of the Urartu period castle...Due to the decrease in the lake level, the 11-step port of that period became visible in the coastal part of the castle, which was used by the Urartians for sea transportation, in the district where many structures and boats previously emerged.Experts examined the area, which was opened in the bedrock with a width of 3 meters and which...

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Political handicappers are labeling Senate Democrats as the favorites to keep their majority, but Democratic senators themselves are worried the polls may be flawed in their favor just as they were in 2016 and 2020. The lawmakers acknowledge the political environment looks much better for their chances than it did on Memorial Day before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and the right to an abortion.

Archaeologists have described the discovery of a 2,000-year-old anchor on the seabed off Suffolk as an "incredibly rare" underwater find.The distinctive wrought iron anchor was found 140 feet down in the southern North Sea during survey works for ScottishPower Renewables’ £2.5billion East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm.Experts believe the anchor is a rare example from the Roman or possibly late Iron Age – somewhere between 1,600-2,000 years old – and is evidence of Romans' seafaring and trading off the coast of the East of England.Brandon Mason from Maritime Archaeology Ltd said: “Everything points to this being a Roman anchor of almost...

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy's Eni said it not would receive any of the gas it had requested from Russia's Gazprom for delivery on Saturday, but the firms said they were working to fix this. Russian gas supplies through the Tarvisio entry point will be at zero for Oct. 1, Eni, the biggest importer of Russian gas in Italy, said in a statement on its website.

Billionaire Bill Gates is warning that America is heading for “civil war” and fears that “political polarization” could “bring it all to an end.” Gates made the prediction during a recent keynote conversation at this year’s Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. The Microsoft co-founder revealed that he plans to end Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 25 years. “The goal for the foundation is to run for another 25 years,” Gates said in the keynote conversation with Forbes’ Chief Content Officer Randall Lane. He revealed that he plans to spend billions of dollars over the next few years on...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — Two area lawmakers are calling for a public hearing over concerns of possible collusion between the Hochul administration, and others in connection to the Schoharie limo tragedy. Republican state lawmakers, Senator Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Chris Tague, are calling on Senate and Assembly Transportation and Investigations Committees to hold the hearings days before the NYS Stretch Limousine Passenger Safety Task Force issues its final report on October 1st. “It certainly appears that the Hochul Administration may be colluding with the Inspector General and the Limo Task Force Co-Chairs to play election year stall ball on the...

Greenwich Village residents are not fans of these new kids on the block. A band of foul-mouthed, toy gun-waving, pot-puffing high school hooligans are keeping residents of West 13th off 6th Avenue hostage in their own tony homes, terrified denizens told The Post. For at least a year while school is in session, the roughnecks roam from stoop to stoop every day at lunchtime, rolling blunts, getting high, acting out and taunting anyone who gets in their way. “They are the bane of the block,” fumed Michael Figueroa, 53, a superintendent for two buildings, who has chased the group from...

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a major speech on Friday denounced the Western society as “outright Satanism” with “various supposed genders”. He said the West had turned away from “traditional” and “religious” values, asking the audience if they wanted their “children to be offered sex-change operations,” which he later said is common in the West. “Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. I now want to return to what I said, I want to address all the citizens of the country – not only to those colleagues who are in the hall – to all the citizens of Russia:...

A majority of U.S. adults will not get the updated COVID-19 booster shots soon, according to a new survey. Just 5 percent of those surveyed said they’ve already received a booster and 27 percent said they will get one as soon as possible. The rest said they will wait and see, only get one if required, definitely not get one, or cannot get one because they have not received a primary series. That’s according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation that was carried out from Sept. 15–26 among 1,534 U.S. adults. The margin of error was plus/minus...

The other day on Twitter, I saw this tweet below that took place during an exchange between a couple of my mutuals, Ever since, I’ve had it in the back of my mind. I think the reason that I’ve not been able to stop thinking about this tweet is because of how clarifying it is. The sentiment expressed in that tweet helps to bring together several threads of thought that I’ve had and have written about previously. The tweet above concisely describes the difference between “America and Americans” on the one hand and the entity variously known as globohomo, the...