Would you like to influence your mate? Would you like to one better than that—determine the direction of the connection? If you are like most people, you answered an emphatic ‘yes.’ Of course you’d like to influence the direction of the connection. You’d like your mate to be caring, sensitive, kind and keenly interested in you. It would be frosting on the cake if they also considered you wise, witty and great looking.
After my recent visit to Egypt, some people asked about Egyptian Christians. "How are they faring under President Al-Sisi?"
"They are doing better under their new president," I replied. "But they still need our support and prayers because Islamists are continuing to attack them, and life remains extremely difficult for them and other Egyptians."
Days before the recent Israel/Hamas conflict erupted, the Presbyterian Church USA withdrew $21 million worth in investments from Israel because, as spokesman Heath Rada put it, the Israeli government’s actions “harm the Palestinian people.”
Capt. Dan Gordon's day job is a Hollywood screen writer. When war comes to Israel, he becomes a spokesman for the IDF and a bard for life under fire. Here's another of his dispatches from the front lines of Israel's unfolding history.
From whence cometh my help
Not too long ago, I was waiting for a doctor’s appointment and flipped through a number of magazines. One article caught my eye. It was titled, “Why Men Love Porn.” In the article, Jake (whoever he was) advised women to not flip out over the use of porn by the men in their lives. According to Jake, porn can be an opportunity to “serve as a lighter fluid on the slow burn of monogamous relationships.’”
This week on the Brody File we take a look at the political sparring over immigration reform as thousands of undocumented minors enter the United States.
We also explore the different ways evangelical Christians are responding to the border crisis.
Here's a dispatch from the front lines of the war between Hamas and Israel by Hollywood screenwriter and IDF spokesperson Dan Gordon.
I have been an Israeli soldier for over 40 years and never in that time have I ever seen a war that Israel wanted less nor did more to avoid
Never.
Even though it's the middle of summer, a particularly aggressive virus is attacking communities all across America. Almost all its victims are kids. It's the coxsackie virus, also known as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
Todd Akin, the former Congressman who angered the Republican establishment when he uttered the words, “legitimate rape” during his campaign for the Senate two years ago, tells The Brody File that during that time he felt a spiritual warfare battle going on saying, “I was protected but it seemed like there was this intense war between good and evil.”
Watch below and read the partial transcription below the video.
A court verdict in Cairo this week is sending shockwaves through Egyptian society.
Seven men convicted of sexual assault during recent rallies in Tahrir Square were given life in prison for their crimes.
Some felt the sentence was too harsh, but others were encouraged by the government's unprecedented, tough stance to defend the country's women.