"How to Change Your Mind and Your Life" -Sticky-
BOOK REVIEW: Learned Optimism, by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
-- Jeff, Tuesday 11-08-2009, 4:15 pm CST

In medical research, there are three kinds of evidence that are considered to determine the effectiveness of a particular treatment. The least valuable is anecdotal evidence. More valuable, is clinical evidence. But only a treatment that has been proven by controlled studies can be said to have been proven scientifically . . . more>>

Extraordinary Evidence -Sticky-
And Witnesses of the Highest Order
-- Jeff, Wednesday 02-02-2011, 7:08 pm CST

The publishing world has hit the jackpot with the recent publication of several books that debate the existence of God. Books that have not only proven to be popular sellers, but that have also sparked a new chapter that ages-long philosophical wrangle . . . more>>

The "Kingdom Theology" Counterfeit, Part Three
Victor Paul Wierwille's Teaching:
"The Way of Life or Death"
-- Jeff, Sunday 03-20-2010, 11:13 am CDT

Listen to Dr. Wierwille's world-famous teaching, during which he whanged the lecturn so hard that the Way Ministry's presidential seal, that always hung from the front of it when he taught, fell off and clattered onto the floor . . . more>>

An Interesting Tidbit
What "Mr. Belurker" or "Miss Jonassas" have to say about it, I dunno...
-- Jeff, Monday 02-28-2010, 10:54 pm CST
--Updated Sunday 06-19-2011, 1:07 pm CDT

In the course of researching for a possible future weblog post on the subject of "cults," I ran across a book in which I stumbled onto a tidbit that I thought might be interesting to graduates of Wierwille's "Power for Abundant Living" class series.

The book is sociologist Eileen Barker's The Making of a Moonie, Choice or Brainwashing? (1984), which she wrote after doing a years-long academic field study of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Although in it Prof. Barker canvases far more than I -- for one -- care to know about the group, her conclusions are as interesting as they have been controversial. Especially considering all the hoopla over "cults" in our society over the last forty years . . . more>>

To Whom and to When are I and II Peter Written?
-- Jeff, Sunday 01-23-2011, 11:31 am CST

"There seems to be a question." People who were part of the Way Corps program may remember this statement emanating from the dining hall "head table" at the Way College of Emporia and elsewhere on occasion. Used as a preface to a discussion about whatever the question happened to be. Of course, I won't be dealing here with rumors about a Lightbearers outreach, a L.E.A.D. expedition, or a "Happy Household Holiday Relocation." But this observation "from days of yore" does fit with the post. . . . more>>

God's Bank Ain't Busted Yet
by Victor Paul Wierwille
The Way International Headquarters, January 6, 1980
-- Jeff, Wednesday 07-17-2010, 12:47 pm CDT

Gilt edged securities issued by the most financially sound corporation in the whole world are not as sound as the promises of God. Wall Street fluctuates the value of your money in the bank but the promises of God has suffered no fluctuations in any way whatsoever . . . more>>

A Premiere Biblical Researcher
"What you want and what I want is not religion"
-- Jeff, Wednesday 07-15-2010, 2:35 pm CDT

The Rev. Dr. E.W. Bullinger (1837-1913) was among the most accurate and prolific researchers of the Word of God known to history. There are not many writers, of any kind of literature, whose works remain in print ninety-seven years after their death. The reason Dr. Bullinger's works remain in demand is quite simple. Serious students of the Bible including myself, to this day, find them invaluable to their studies . . . more>>

Excerpts from a Letter
Including Observations about Spiritualism
And the State of our Country Spiritually
-- Jeff, Wednesday 07-13-2010, 7:15 am CST
Updated Friday 02-04-2011, 10:11 am CST

I thought that it might be profitable for readers of this journal to look at a couple or three excerpts from I letter that I have written to someone close to me . . . more>>

Recessions, Depressions, and the Biblical Jubilee, Part Four
"The Math is Never Wrong" -Karl Denninger
-- Jeff, Monday 03-08-2010, 7:42 pm CST

Over the course of history, things change. Cultures change, technologies change, the accepted rules of legitimacy in governance change, relative levels of prosperity change, a lot of things change. But in the field of mathematics, nothing ever changes. Whether we are talking about pre-history, ancient times, medieval times or modern times, two times two has always and will always equal four. . . more>>