While surfing blogs with wordpress.com’s Tag Surfer, I stumbled onto this quote of a review of The Golden Compass. When I first saw the advertisement, I was thinking that this is just another fantasy story based on some book and I was not terribly interested since many of them turn out badly. This movie is [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘religion’
February 12, 2007
Jesuspets
No this is not about keeping Jesus as a pet, but about who will take care of your beloved pets if you are raptured away. These people who do not want to be raptured will stay behind to take care of your beloved pets to make sure they will not die of hunger. They even [...]
July 25, 2006
Lunar 7th month
The 7th month started with a lot of burning of “ghost money” to the deceased family members. The town council had to provide large metal drums as designated zones for residents to burn their offerings. One woman was scattering them onto the grass instead of burning them. I’m not sure why, never bothered to work [...]
February 2, 2006
FaithActs
Has it been 5 weeks since I started serving at FaithActs as a volunteer tutor? How time flies! There are now 5 records filled in for my students, one for each week that they come for low-cost tuition. These records help replacement tutors know what the students had been learning all this while, should the [...]
January 18, 2006
Prosperity Gospel in New York
New York Times ran an article on how prosperity gospel is gaining popularity in New York City. What is prosperity gospel? It is a teaching in churches that God will bless everyone with wealth and health if you are faithful, that you are not doing the right thing if you are poor or sick.
It is [...]
