Author Archives: dayofrepentance

10 Dec
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HANUKKAH — FEAST OF LIGHT

By James Wilson (Ed. Note: Christmas approaches. My next few posts will focus on preparing our hearts not just to celebrate but to emulate.) Hanukkah is to Passover for Jews as Christmas is to Easter for Christians with a bit ...

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06 Dec
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HACKSAW RIDGE — A MOVIE FOR THIS MAVERICK SEASON

By James Wilson (Ed. Note: Christmas approaches. My next few posts will focus on preparing our hearts not just to celebrate but to emulate.) Mel Gibson’s compelling film, Hacksaw Ridge, is the story of Desmond Doss. A Christian of the ...

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01 Dec
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LOVING JUSTICE AND WALKING HUMBLY

By James Wilson (Ed. Note: Christmas approaches. My next few posts will focus on preparing our hearts not just to celebrate but to emulate.) Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is under fire for alleged bigotry because he reported – factually ...

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27 Nov
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WHAT NOW AMERICA REDUX: IGNORING THE MEDIA BEHIND THE SCREEN

By James Wilson Should Americans take my advice and seek authentic reconciliation between our hateful factions in the wake of Donald Trump’s electoral victory we will have to dodge the media in order to do it. Having milked his previous ...

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22 Nov
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A EUCHARISTIC HEART CHANGES WORLDVIEW

By James Wilson My friend explained she had been diagnosed – biopsied and malignant tissue proved it – in late stage thyroid cancer. The docs were planning surgery in ten days and the prognosis was poor. A team gathered around ...

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18 Nov
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AUTHENTIC RECONCILIATION — JAPANESE-AMERICAN STYLE

By James Wilson Fuchida Mitsuo was an American byword for villainy although few Americans remember his name today. The leader of the Pearl Harbor airstrike was such an admirer of Adolph Hitler he adopted a Hitlerian mustache as a statement ...

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15 Nov
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WHAT NOW AMERICA?

By James Wilson I wrote in my first book, Living as Ambassadors, that I had never seen my country so divided – so polarized – as it was during the 2004 election phenomenon. Reality is the nation is much more ...

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10 Nov
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ISRAEL: FROM UPSTART TO START-UP IN SIXTY YEARS

By James Wilson Israel is a miracle of astronomical proportions on multiple levels. That she should be born again two millennia after total destruction at the hands of a vengeful Roman Empire and centuries of occupation by an expiring Muslim ...

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05 Nov
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ISRAEL IS TO JERUSALEM AS BATMAN TO ROBIN 2

By James Wilson What is to be done about the UNESCO resolution declaring Jerusalem and the Temple Mount sacred to Muslims alone? Israel severed its connection with UNESCO within the first day following the preliminary vote; this is entirely understandable. ...

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31 Oct
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ISRAEL IS TO JERUSALEM AS BATMAN TO ROBIN

By James Wilson The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization – UNESCO – has struck again. The organization has a long record of substituting propaganda for history, including their 2015 resolution declaring such Israeli sites as Rachel’s Tomb (the ...

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