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Saeed Abedini
Saeed Abedini (Persian: سعيد عابدينی, born 7 May 1980) is an Iranian American Christian pastor who was imprisoned in Iran for threatening "national security" by making Christian gatherings. On January 16, 2016, he was released from prison with 2 other American prisoners. Abedini, a naturalized American citizen, reportedly has dual-citizenship, with the US and Iran. Iran, however, does not recognize his American citizenship. SOURCE: Wikipedia
May 20, 2020: Michigan Live: Flint Marine held captive in Iran pens book about being caught in ‘crossfire’
“They were never about the individuals themselves. Whether it was me, Saeed Abedini the Christian Pastor, Jason Rezaian, the (Washington Post) reporter, or others, it wasn’t that the regime in Iran had personal vendettas against us as individuals,” said Hekmati. “We were ‘caught in the crossfire’ of an ongoing conflict between two countries.”
“They were never about the individuals themselves. Whether it was me, Saeed Abedini the Christian Pastor, Jason Rezaian, the (Washington Post) reporter, or others, it wasn’t that the regime in Iran had personal vendettas against us as individuals,” said Hekmati. “We were ‘caught in the crossfire’ of an ongoing conflict between two countries.”
May 5, 2020: The Hill:A global call to prayer
Pastor Saeed Abedini, a UN Ambassador of Peace who frequently engages in inter-faith dialogue, has called upon members of all faiths to pray to the one good God, so that through the power of our relationship with God this pandemic can be brought to a halt: “The Bible recommends us to pray and by praying, we start our relationship. It represents our request to our almighty God. Prayer brings us back home to our heavenly father. By praying, we can overcome. Prayer equips us and we find ourselves in him. Prayer does not change God but it definitely changes us. Jesus teaches us how to pray in the Bible. Romans 8:26-27 help us to pray with spirit.”
Pastor Saeed Abedini, a UN Ambassador of Peace who frequently engages in inter-faith dialogue, has called upon members of all faiths to pray to the one good God, so that through the power of our relationship with God this pandemic can be brought to a halt: “The Bible recommends us to pray and by praying, we start our relationship. It represents our request to our almighty God. Prayer brings us back home to our heavenly father. By praying, we can overcome. Prayer equips us and we find ourselves in him. Prayer does not change God but it definitely changes us. Jesus teaches us how to pray in the Bible. Romans 8:26-27 help us to pray with spirit.”
Sept 20. 2019: Courthouse News Service: Freed Pastor Testifies in Iranian Torture Case
Five days after Iran freed her husband in a prisoner deal that included Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Naghmeh Panahi filed to divorce Saeed Abedini, a prominent Iranian-American Christian pastor, over allegations of abuse.Now suing Iran for millions in damages, Abedini told a federal judge on Friday during an emotional testimony that his ex-wife was manipulated by the Iranian government to destroy his reputation.
Five days after Iran freed her husband in a prisoner deal that included Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Naghmeh Panahi filed to divorce Saeed Abedini, a prominent Iranian-American Christian pastor, over allegations of abuse.Now suing Iran for millions in damages, Abedini told a federal judge on Friday during an emotional testimony that his ex-wife was manipulated by the Iranian government to destroy his reputation.
Nov 2, 2016: CBN: Why Pastor Saeed Abedini Backs Trump
Just days before the election Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini is publicly supporting Donald Trump, citing the billionaire's $10,000 gift to his family while he was in prison
Just days before the election Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini is publicly supporting Donald Trump, citing the billionaire's $10,000 gift to his family while he was in prison
Jan 26, 2016: Jim Bakker Show: U.S. pastor freed by Iran says he was tortured
Saeed Abedini, an American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison as part of a U.S.-Iranian prisoner swap, said in a television interview aired on Monday that he was tortured and left in solitary confinement for refusing to sign a false confession and saw other prisoners being taken to be hanged
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Saeed Abedini, an American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison as part of a U.S.-Iranian prisoner swap, said in a television interview aired on Monday that he was tortured and left in solitary confinement for refusing to sign a false confession and saw other prisoners being taken to be hanged
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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
Craig Adams
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Politics doesn’t bring people together, it divides people into camps. That is just the way it is. It may be possible to mitigate the effects of this divisiveness somewhat — and people ought to do what they can — but I don’t think this can be avoided altogether. It’s a necessary evil. ComonplaceHoliness: Craig Adams: Why I Don’t Trust Politics
Aug 8, 2015: Craig Adams: Commonplace Holiness: How the Black Church Bucks the Trend of Decline
Craig Adams used to be a United Methodist pastor. He served under appointment in the United Methodist Church from 1975 to 2010. He has served several small United Methodist churches in West Michigan. He is now officially retired. he has been active at various times in Emmaus & Chrysalis, as a camp counselor, in the leadership of the Conference Youth Council, and in Lay Speaker training.
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Our constitution does not need interpretation. Its written in English.🤔
Alex Aili
Alex Aili is a story-dweller who tends to wander off the beaten trail in search of the right word...and the better view. In addition to writing at A Clear Lens, he writes fiction and offers his musings about God’s hand in the world at Covert God: Targeting Redemptive Creativity. Strong coffee, good pipe tobacco and longs walks in the woods make him happy. He resides in northern MN with his wife and three sons. Bio at Clear Lens
April 28, 2020: Covert God: Joy on a Mission: A Review of “The Chosen”
Why does The Chosen make me feel like I’ve never met Jesus before? I believe the answer is simple: it gives Deity a human face. Jonathan Roumie’s remarkable portrayal of Jesus reaches out to us, as if he was a real person we want to meet. While other actors may find it daunting to embrace the humanity of Jesus, Roumie combines salvific intentionality with humor. This is Joy on a mission.
Why does The Chosen make me feel like I’ve never met Jesus before? I believe the answer is simple: it gives Deity a human face. Jonathan Roumie’s remarkable portrayal of Jesus reaches out to us, as if he was a real person we want to meet. While other actors may find it daunting to embrace the humanity of Jesus, Roumie combines salvific intentionality with humor. This is Joy on a mission.
Oct 28, 2019: Alex Aili: A Clear Lens : Story and Gospel: Why Jesus Spoke in Parables
Mar 2, 2019: Alex Aili: Covert God: The “Science” of Story: An Oxymoron
Aug 16, 2015: Alex Aili: Covert God: The God of Grouse
Aug 5, 2015: Alex Aili: A Clear Lens: What’s the Problem with the Problem of Evil?
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June 17, 2015: Alex Aili: Covert God: Love Wins: Hope for Broken People
Apr 21, 2015: Alex Aili: Covert God: 3 Ways To Make Your Blog an Idol
Jan 28, 2015: Alex Aili: A Clear Lens: Alex Aili, Author
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“The measure of my spirit of criticism is the measure of my distance from Christ.” ~ E. Stanley Jones🤔
Daniel Akin
Sam Alberry
July 10, 2020: Church Times: The Book of Queer Prophets, edited by Ruth Hunt, and Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?
SAM ALLBERRY suggests that some of his readers might want “to grunt in disgust or hurl the book across the room”. I am one of them.
SAM ALLBERRY suggests that some of his readers might want “to grunt in disgust or hurl the book across the room”. I am one of them.
May 28, 2016: Sam Alberry: Gospel Coalition: You Are Not Your Sexuality
Mar 12, 2015: Baptist Press: Church's role, same-sex attraction addressed
Jesus calls all people, including those with same-sex attraction, in the same way: to repent and believe, said British author and pastor Sam Allberry in a March 4 lecture at Boyce College.
Jesus calls all people, including those with same-sex attraction, in the same way: to repent and believe, said British author and pastor Sam Allberry in a March 4 lecture at Boyce College.
"There's no 'we' in fries." JestSayin😎
Gavin Ashenden
July 17, 2020: The Spectator: Why the new Archbishop of York will lead the Church of England even further into the lunacy of wokeness
In this week’s Holy Smoke podcast I talk to Dr Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the Queen, about the implications of this disastrous appointment, which means that for the first time in the history of the Established Church the sees of Canterbury, York and London are all occupied by intellectually challenged bureaucrats with an adolescent enthusiasm for wokeness.
In this week’s Holy Smoke podcast I talk to Dr Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the Queen, about the implications of this disastrous appointment, which means that for the first time in the history of the Established Church the sees of Canterbury, York and London are all occupied by intellectually challenged bureaucrats with an adolescent enthusiasm for wokeness.
May 7, 2020: Church Militant: Churches closed because of adulterous scientist who cried wolf
"It would have been better for the bishops to have given their faith and their allegiance to God than to the unreliable scientist with a far-left political preference," theologian Gavin Ashenden told Church Militant, noting that "Church leaders bent over backwards to close churches as we were assured that government policy was being driven by scientific advice."
"It would have been better for the bishops to have given their faith and their allegiance to God than to the unreliable scientist with a far-left political preference," theologian Gavin Ashenden told Church Militant, noting that "Church leaders bent over backwards to close churches as we were assured that government policy was being driven by scientific advice."
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Mar 14, 2015: Coolness of Hind: Reverend Gavin Ashenden: The Queen’s Chaplain and a Glasshouse
I’d rather have a priest who is honest in his view of Islam, much like the rawness which emanated from Pastor James McConnell than a deceitful neocon who disguises his assaults on Islam behind the façade of “Islamism”. Gavin Roy Pelham Ashenden (born 3 June 1954) is a British Catholic layman, a former priest of the Church of England, and a former continuing Anglican bishop. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until his resignation in 2017. [SOURCE: Wikipedia]
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