Elizabethprata

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2957 )

• Please Don't Repeat Fake News, Here's How to Spot Fake News

  

  This is a good schematic. I was a journalist for over 6 years, working for weeklies and dailies. I can attest to the fact that most newspapers have an obvious... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata Potpourri: Men Acting Like Men, Women Acting Like Women, Wrath,...

  

  By Elizabeth PrataIt's a hot one, mid-summer in Georgia, and many of my friends and colleagues are out in the world somewhere on their vacations. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• God Told Me!

  

  What is a women to do when it seems like everyone is hearing directly from God...and you're not? It seems like so many women say they hear audible voices,... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sunday Word of the Week: Glorification

  

  By Elizabeth PrataThe thread of Christianity depends on a unity from one generation to the next of mutual understanding of our important words. Hence the Word o... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Henry Ward Beecher, Social Justice, and Eben-melech the Unknown Hero

  

  By Elizabeth Prata"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." ~Henry Ward BeecherBeecher was a minister, temperance promoter, abolitionist, social... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Wonderful Gift from a Reader

  

  By Elizabeth PrataI'm just a puddle of tears and joy, you guys.The internet is a wild and woolly place when discussing traditional, conservative, evangelical... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• "Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History."

  

  By Elizabeth Prata"Well-behaved women seldom make history."This was a bumper sticker adorning the car ahead of me at a red light. A long light. I had time to... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Happy Fourth!

  

  By Elizabeth PrataThe Fourth of July is so fun for a kid. It's a day when the grownups stay home and we all get to play. For some, that means swimming in the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sin Ensnares Another High Profile Pastor

  

  I'm very sorry to have to report this. Art Azurdia, elder at Trinity Church of Portland (OR) and frequent speaker at high-profile conferences such as the... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Speaking up for Prophetic Scriptures

  

  They used to say that the Puritan preachers were so heavenly minded they lived in heaven 6 days a week and came down on Sunday to preach. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Word of the Week: Sanctification

  

  The thread of Christianity depends on a unity from one generation to the next of mutual understanding of our important words. Hence the Word of the Week. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata's Place / Graceful Garlands 45: Mystery Me

  

  My title comes fromHear, my son, your father’s instruction,and forsake not your mother’s teaching,for they are a graceful garland for your headand pendants for... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mass Psychogenic Illness Or Demonic Possession? Anomaly Or Common? Diagnosis...

  

  In 2012 I posted a series of essay tracking an unusual incident that occurred in LeRoy NY, where a number of teenage girls (and one boy) suddenly began twitchin... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This is What They Forget

  

  Two thousand years is a long time. That's two centuries.Two bundles of hundreds. Fifty generations, give or take. A long time.Jesus ascended sometime around 33... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Our Inheritance: It is Only Going to Be One Or the Other

  

  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 6:23)For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Social Justice, the Global Church, and Controversies

  

  It has been dizzying this past 3 months in the evangelical wider world, and very worrying in the online evangelical world. The controversies have been deep and... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Word of the Week: Propitiation

  

  We're losing the meaning of our uniquely Christian words. Biblical illiteracy is high. People don't understand the meaning of foundational words like... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata's Place / Graceful Garlands: Gradual Growth

  

  My title comes fromHear, my son, your father’s instruction,and forsake not your mother’s teaching,for they are a graceful garland for your headand pendants for... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• About the Face...

  

  But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Chris Pratt's MTV Awards Speech: A False Gospel and an un-Christian Life

  

  CNN called him "The ultimate good guy". CBS called it a "Powerful speech." The National Review called it "Spreading the Gospel". FaithWire called it "A bold... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY