May 2002

In his latest TV program, Jack Van Impe criticized a Cleveland lutheran preacher for not allowing his congregation to read the Left Behind books, and for saying that the millennium started at Pentecost and it continues today. Jack also claimed that the millenium reign of Christ is similar to the seventh day of rest in Genesis...according to his calculations, and with the fact that one day equals 1,000 years (2 Peter), Jack figured out that the 6th day ends in year 2002, thus Christ's 1,000 year reign will start this year.

Stupidity is all around us, extending from the executive suites at the Enron Corp., Congress and the White House to Yale University classrooms and our own back yards, according to a Yale professor who edited a new book on the subject. Sternberg said, "Lately, we've also been hearing it (stupidity) seems to affect members of the clergy".

by Virgil Vaduva
Yesterday, as part of my seminary requirement credits, I attended a senior student presentation on various theology topics. For a Baptist university, most students discussed generic topics, such as church and society, grace, forgiveness, etc. Everything was fine and almost boring, until the last presentation was on the topic of covenant ecclesiology.

Scientists have revealed the full technical details of their discovery of vast reservoirs of ice beneath the Martian surface.
So much ice has been found in the polar regions that if it were to melt it would deluge the planet.

The ice may stretch far underground to regions where it is warm, raising the possibility of warm caverns of meltwater in which scientists hesitantly speculate conditions could be suitable for life.

But they caution that we may never know until we have rock and ice samples returned to Earth by an unmanned probe for analysis.