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Berkley Professor of Theology Rita Nakashima Brock says that “Christ’s death upon the cross has no place in authentic Christianity,” and that “the atonement of Christ was a concoction of male church leaders in the 10th century when they began celebrating bread and wine communion.” How would you confront her comments? There has never been a period in Christian history when the significance and the necessity of the cross have been more controversial than in our present day. It never ceases to amaze me how contemporary theologians and other post-modern academicians will accept ...

Bible Truth or Tradition: Who God is according to Jesus

Whether we are reading from the Old Testament (Hebrew text) or the New Testament(Greek text), we should know that God does not change. ““For I am the LORD (Hebrew “Yahweh,” this is God’s personal name forever according to Exodus 3:15), I do not change;” Malachi‬ ‭3‬:‭6‬a “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” James‬ ‭1‬:‭17‬ The Lord (Greek “kurios” usually translated lord or master) Jesus Christ taught many things about God and the ...

Futures Files

A Hot Mess for Commodities Canadian wildfires and smoke continue to affect commodities through Friday. The hot, dry conditions associated with the fires have hindered wheat, canola and barley crops in and around Canada and the US states experiencing smoke coverage. The timber industry faces commodity price uncertainty due to potential lost harvests, and oil field disruptions lead to reduced production and shipping. Supply chain disruptions add to fire woes. Climate change fueled disasters cost the US hundreds of billions annually. Heat Deletes Abundant Wheat Continued heat waves in ...

Property tax relief: Putting Iowa homeowners first

When your home state is repeatedly rated as one of the worst in the country for property tax burdens, something has to change. When you are consistently hearing from Iowans worried about property taxes year after year, something has to change. And when the same entities complaining about ...

ISU’s Lake LaVerne: A Time Capsule of Emotions

I see where Iowa State's Lake LaVerne has been drained and they are dredging it to make it deeper. (I don't know why they call it a lake. Being from rural Iowa, I would call it a pond.) In the process of dredging Lake Laverne they have found all kinds of odds-and-ends of stuff like it was a time capsule of Iowa State University. They found an old cannon, bicycles, a bowling ball and enough junk to fill a scrapyard. The cannon they surmise may have been used to celebrate touchdowns at nearby Clyde Williams' Field, and then stolen from Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity in the early seventies. The ...