Alex Tsakiris:The story of Howard Storm is well known to many who study the near-death experience phenomenon. Pastor Storm was a committed Atheist until a severe illness left him in a hospital bed in Paris, France, on the brink of death. What happened next was a traumatic near-death exper...
In Asia, Beijing’s “trust deficit” increased to 63 percent during 2020 compared with 60.4 percent before the pandemic, measured by the percentage of respondents who had “little confidence” and “no confidence” in China doing “the right thing in the interests of the global community.” ...
This also refutes the idea that a person has to breath air before he can have his spirit given to him. Those examples which seem to indicate this are from Genesis 2 and Ezekiel 37, there are also some in Psalms but these are the main two. In all of these cases, it is talking abou...
Even if I were to spend more time on the internet, I’m not sure that would be reliable gauge as to progress in the subject matter as there is no way to tell what percentage of the population they represent and whether there has been an increase in that percentage from pre-internet ...
different societies have wildly varying ideas of what's ok and what isn't. So you can try diffing other cultures' ideas against ours as well. (The best way to do that is to visit them.)Any idea that's considered harmless in a significant percentage of times and places, and yet is ta...
Which state is the most unchurched? On a state level, it is not clear whether the least religious state resides in New England or the Western United States, as the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) ranked Vermont as the state with the highest percentage of residents claiming...
Alumnatas courtyard in the Old Town. Ranging from opulent to derelict, the courtyards of downtown Vilnius are a hidden face of the city. ©Augustinas Žemaitis. With its location in the heart of Europe (according to the French geographic institute, the center of Europe is in a certain...
Father knows that all parish Masses have one thing in common. The congregation takes the recessional hymn as the musical cue that, “This thing is over with — let’s get outta here!” A non-trivial percentage of the congregation stampedes the exits at the first notes of the final hymn....
1). The only group that seems to be more interested in applying to medical school compared to their percentage of the US population is Asian Americans. In our own survey (small) of highly motivated students who attended the Annual Biomedical Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) and Society...
they only want to correct to a certain percentage. Let’s just keep it real. So if you start listening to the people who were, who used to be criminal-minded, who committed crimes, and we start speaking with the law offices saying, look, if you treat us like this and you come into...