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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Mecca Redesign & Curious Statements Concerning al-Aqsa Mosque

I ran across both of these bits of news on the same day several weeks ago.  Apparently  King Abdullah ben Adbulaziz (Saudi Arabia) is sponsoring a multi-billion dollar re-design of Mecca: Article, Pictures, Video. Normally I wouldn’t find this information that interesting or surprising except that I came across this bit of news the same day.  SheikhRadd [...]

Laodicean: A Profetic Word Out Of The Mouth Of A Child?

 I was reading the news about a week ago and realized that the winning word for the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year was “Laodicean” – defined in most dictionaries as:  1. Of or relating to Laodicea. 2. Indifferent or lukewarm especially in matters of religion.  It is the second definition that is of most [...]