This article was first published in Adventist Today Find the English version of this article Here En la medianoche del 14 de noviembre de 1960, Robert Raymond Cook hizo el fatídico viaje a la horca desde su celda en Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, el último hombre en ser ahorcado en la provincia de Alberta, Canadá. Debido a que el juicio […]
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This article was first published in Adventist Today Find the English version of this article Here Au Fort Saskatchewan, le 4 novembre 1960, à minuit, Robert Raymond Cook entreprend le voyage fatidique entre son cachot et le gibet qui l’attend – il est le dernier homme à être pendu dans la province de l’Alberta. Son procès (retransmis
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This article was first published in Adventist Today At midnight on November 14, 1960, Robert Raymond Cook made the fateful trip to the gallows from his cell in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta—the last man to be hanged in the province of Alberta. Because of how the trial seemed to have been argued on circumstantial evidence, much of it playing
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This article was first published in Adventist Today Find the English version of this article Here A finales de 2021 se produjo un fascinante escándalo religioso en Internet y las redes sociales. El Dr. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, profesor de filosofía de la Universidad Johns Hopkins, publicó en Facebook una carta que había recibido de la sinagoga portuguesa (la
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This article was first published in Adventist Today Towards the end of 2021, a fascinating religious drama played out on the internet and social media. Dr. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, posted to Facebook a letter he received from the Portuguese synagogue (the Esnoga) in Amsterdam. Dr. Melamed had written to
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This article was first published in Adventist Today Proficient storytellers understand that storytelling is the art of shaping human lives. In the hands of a skilled rhetorician, it may be the sharpest transformational tool in our ideological tool box. Storytellers know that how a story is told is inextricable from why it is told. Yet when we engage with stories,
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This article was first published in Adventist Today I once knew some folks who believed—a belief they held quite militantly—that the King James translation of the Greek and Hebrew scriptures was holy and uncorrupted, unlike all other translations. For them, acceptable public prayers and presentations had to reflect the holiness of God’s word; thus, they insisted
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This article was first published in Adventist Today In 1920 the 18th amendment of the United States Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. What President Hoover would later label “a noble experiment” also demonstrated the old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. The ingenuity of winemakers in California is a case in point.
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This article was first published in Adventist Today On July 23, 1983, Air Canada flight 143 left Montreal bound for Edmonton with 61 passengers and 8 crew on board. What seemed to be another routine flight turned out to be nothing of the kind: while cruising at 41,000 feet over Manitoba, the Boeing 767 ran out of
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This article was first published in Adventist Today My picture of hypnosis, thanks to the movie industry, involves an unimaginably comfortable couch, a swinging pendulum, and the hypnotist’s persuasive and gentle voice counting down. But that concept always calls to arms the thinker in me to defend logic. Thus, I have tended to write hypnosis off
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