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Rocky collected money for the Mafia. A typical bagman, he was immersed in the material world of fast cars, quick cash and getting ahead by butting heads. One day, he was shot in the chest and left for dead on the street. He survived, though, and lived to tell of an experience that changed his life. "He described a blissful, typical near-death experience—seeing the light, communicating with a deity and seeing deceased relatives," says Bruce Greyson, a U.Va.-trained psychiatrist who interviewed Rocky after the shooting. "He came back with typical near-death aftereffects. He felt that cooperation and love were the...

When asked, outgoing Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle said that his decision to leave was in the works for a while and had nothing to do with Gov. Rell’s appointment of the very troubled Linda Yelmini to be Deputy Commissioner of the very troubled Internal Affairs Unit for the very troubled Connecticut State Police. Maybe so, but it was a worthwhile question that needed to be asked anyway. Now there are a few other worthwhile questions that need to be asked and answered. A recent report showed abysmal performance by the Internal Affairs Unit in handling many outlandish cases involving...

Biography of D.L. Moody Written by: Unknown Posted on: 03/13/2003 Category: Biographies Source: CCN Dwight Lyman Moody BORN: February 5, 1837 DIED: December 22, 1899 Northfield, Massachusetts[qm]Northfield, Massachusetts LIFE SPAN: 62 years, 10 months, 17 days DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY was the first evangelist since Whitefield to shake two continents for God. It was on his mother's birthday that Moody was born on a small New England farm. He was only four when his father, Edwin, a bricklayer and an alcoholic, died suddenly at 41. His mother, Betsy (Holton), was now a widow at 36 with seven children...the oldest being thirteen,...

Jesus Christ is calling you ... What Must I Do To Be Saved? Dwight Lyman Moody's Last Sermon in London. Preached in Camberwell Hall, Sunday Evening, July 11th, 1875. Suppose you do not want to hear a sermon (on this last night) so much as you want to know how to be saved. I want, if I can, to answer that question, "What must I do to be saved?" There is no question that can come before us in this world that is so important; and I think that there is not a man in this audience to-night who does...

LONDON, December 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A study published in the current issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry has revealed that 43% of gays, lesbians and bisexuals have a mental disorder. The study carried out by the Imperial College in London surveyed 1285 respondents from these groups. Mental problems included anxiety, sleep disturbance, panic attacks, depressive moods or thoughts, problems with memory or concentration and compulsive behaviour or obsessive thoughts. The researchers noted that there is a dearth of research into the mental health of gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women in the UK. The study found...

I came across a hell of a story about just how liberal Arkansas' flagship campus has become. Check out www.FireBrazzell.com

Rep. Gregory's alignment with the GOP brings the total number of Republican members serving in the state House of Representatives to 47, the largest number of Republican Representatives to serve at one time in modern Mississippi history.

Obituaries in the News The Associated Press Published: Jun 10, 2004 George Bean : TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - George Bean, the workaholic executive who built Tampa International Airport and then ran it for 25 years, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 79. Friends remember him as a chain-smoking, no-nonsense administrator who ran the airport he called "my baby" with an iron fist, issuing edicts banning everything from popcorn sales to curbside parking. Fearing damage to the airport's new carpeting, Bean banned chewing gum. For 30 years, no one did. He also didn't like rental-car shuttle buses or people standing...

Would someone please tell me what in the world does providing the best education for our kids have to do with a pro-choice march in Washington, D.C., this Sunday, April 25? Why does the powerful and influential National Education Association feel it should have any role whatsoever in co-sponsoring such an event—to the point of allowing the NEA headquarters near the White House to act as a hospitality center for the “March for Freedom of Choice,” while the nation’s nearby state affiliates in New Jersey and elsewhere organize buses to bring in demonstrators for the all-day affair? So, tell me,...

That hang-time religion Mixing Shaq and Meshach: The odd marriage of the Moody Bible Institute and the NBA By Mike Conklin Tribune staff reporter June 7, 2002 When Dwight L. Moody told his followers in 1886 that it was time to train men for missionary work -- a pronouncement that led to the founding of the Moody Bible Institute -- it seems safe to say that the preacher's vision didn't include the presence on his campus of the likes of rap-singing, slam-dunking Shaquille O'Neal and other current or future basketball superstars. Yet, unfolding again this week on Moody's Near North...