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Figure Eights Aren’t Just For Skates
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Featherwing beetles might be the smallest beetles measuring in at mostly under one millimeter, but their size doesn’t stop them from being speedy fliers. These tiny beetles have been found to fly just as fast as other beetles three times their size. Learning more about their flight reminds us that our Creator designed purpose in the tiny details. Entomologists have been studying the flight patterns and behaviors of these amazing beetles to learn how they seem to defy Newton’s laws. Unlike the wings of other insects, made of membranous material, the featherwing beetles have bristly […]
Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?
Brenda Branson (Hanson, Kentucky) Copyright © 2004 The answer given in the 1920s to this question was that battered women were of low intelligence or mentally retarded. In the ’40s it was determined that women did not leave because they were masochistic.By the ’70s the experts claimed that a woman stayed in an abusive situation because she was isolated from friends and neighbors, had few economic resources, and was terrorized into a state of “learned helplessness” by repeated abuse.Experts spent time, energy, and government grants studying women and their problems, and by asking “why do women stay” they managed to […]
Just What Do You Mean “Ezekiel’s Message”?
(Copyright) by Craig White (Australia)
Just What Do You Mean Apostasy?
by Robert E. Tigue (Des Plains, Illinois) An apostasy is not people leaving an organization…. but it is the organization leaving…. turning aside from…or abandoning Truth. Apostasy (from Greek, meaning a defection or revolt, from, apo, “away, apart”, stasis, “standing”) is a term generally employed to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one’s religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to one’s former religion. One who commits apostasy is an apostate, or one […]