Marturo’s blog

Promoting Peace?

2009-06-16T20:36:08Z

I received an email the other day that contains a woman's venting to a New Brunswick newspaper against the U.S.'s closing of the prison due to the torturing of Taliban. Click here to understand my response: Ya know, it bothers me when people c...

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Government bailouts, we suffer

2009-06-14T00:53:41Z

I was watching CNN earlier, and they were talking about why the gas prices are going up. I was wondering that just the other day, myself. Especially since I'd understood that the prices were up before because the seller was against Bush, and eve...

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N. Korean nuclear missiles

2009-05-26T20:51:24Z

Today, one of the big news stories is about N. Korea and the advancement of their nuclear missile technology. So let's see now... Bush jumped into Iraq because he claimed they had nuclear missiles (showed our breaking point the rest of the worl...

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Obama's response to Venezuela's Chavez

2009-04-20T22:49:55Z

I was watching "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on MSNBC this evening, where I saw Political Analysts Pat Buchanan & Lawrence O'Donnell, "discussing" (more like arguing) "some" Republicans' outrage about Obama's response to Chavez's insults. As I...

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Lent & Fasting

2009-03-11T20:50:42Z

Wow, I didn't realize how long it's been since I posted...until I saw the title for my last one. Sorry about that. Anyway, Happy Lent! :) What is Lent, anyway? Well, it's a Christian thing that begins on Ash Wednesday, and goes 40 days until Eas...

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New Year's Prep.

2009-01-08T16:55:57Z

While in seminary, I had this idea that denominations are sinful, for they separate the members of the Body of Christ. But when talking with my late professor, he’d mentioned that denominations in themselves are not sinful, for they promote diff...

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Christmas Eve is about "waiting"

2008-12-17T16:41:00Z

I can remember as a child, each Christmas, waiting for Santa to arrive. I’d put cookies out on a plate, a glass of milk, and a note, in case Santa didn’t know that the snack was for him. As I grew older (but not too old to stop believing in San...

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Renewal

2008-11-26T16:11:25Z

While talking with a high school friend, I learned some things about myself. Actually, I don’t know if I learned something new, realized something old, or just remembered. But either way, it’s made me rethink the details about my conversion stor...

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Nepal child Goddess

2008-10-13T16:27:10Z

Check out this link to understand this post: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/07/nepal.living.godess.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest This past Tuesday, Hindu and Buddhist priests in Nepal named a 3-year-old girl as a living goddess. Bu...

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Isaiah 2:6-9

2008-09-25T19:56:23Z

"You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. Their land is full of silver and gold; there is no end to their treasures...

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