Music Monday: Hills & Valleys

I found out that Danny Gokey, who I’ve featured a few times on Music Monday, is going on tour. Whenever I find artists I like are going on tour, I always make a point of finding out what supporting acts they are taking with them because chances are that I’m going to like the supporting acts too. Well, Tauren Wells is going to be supporting Danny on the tour:

I’ve walked among the shadows
You wiped my tears away
And I’ve felt the pain of heartbreak
And I’ve seen the brighter days
And I’ve prayed prayers to heaven from my lowestplace
And I have held the blessings
God, you give and take away

No matter what I have, Your grace is enough
No matter where I am, I’m standing in Your love

[Chorus]
On the mountains, I will bow my life
To the one who set me there
In the valley, I will lift my eyes to the one who sees me there
When I’m standing on the mountain aft, didn’t get there on my own
When I’m walking through the valley end, no I am not alone!
You’re God of the hills and valleys!
Hills and Valleys!
God of the hills and valleys
And I am not alone!

I’ve watched my dreams get broken
In you I hope again!
No matter what I know
Know I’m safe inside Your hand

Father, you give and take away
Every joy and every pain
Through it all you will remain
Over it all!

Deaths due to illegal abortions

There was a lot of nonsense in the Kavanaugh hearing, but this one particularly annoyed me. However, one in particular stood out…

Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that:

“In the 1950s and 60s, the two decades before Roe, deaths from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million”

What’s ironic is that she’s actually right…but not in the way she thinks. The Guttmacher Institute (pro-choice research group) report that she was referencing says that this was the number of unborn deaths due to abortion, not the number of maternal deaths because a legal abortion couldn’t be procured…

The New Atheism and the Five Ways

One of my challenges this year was to become better acquainted with St. Thomas Aquinas. As a result, I’ve dug more into Thomas’ “Five Ways”, five proofs for the existence of God which appear at the start of the Summa.

I generally haven’t been very impressed with the rebuttals of the Five Ways by the New Atheists. In the article below, Dr. William-Lane Craig reviews the Five Ways and looks at the typical criticisms of them he receives from New Atheists…

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