Archive of past articles by Jean-Claude Koven
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Articles
Will the World Really End on December 21, 2012?
By Jean-Claude Koven I was recently asked how I interpreted the Mayan and Hopi predictions that the world, as we know it, will end on the 21st of December, 2012. Would there be global war — possibly triggering a nuclear holocaust? Would the planet’s life forms finally succumb to the ecological quagmire that’s been building in our soils, oceans and atmosphere? Would the current steady increase of previously unknown diseases overcome our ability to defend ...
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Will the Real God Please Step Forward?
By Jean-Claude Gerard Koven Consider the possibility that the world is in the mess it’s in because of us. We are the very ones who have abdicated our personal responsibility at every turn. Whatever the challenge, we habitually look to some greater authority – from mommies to governments to God -- to make it better. It seems every day I receive a new appeal to light candles, meditate, send emails, or pray to rectify an ...
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Will the Real God Please Step Forward?
By Jean-Claude Gerard Koven I recently received an email in which the correspondent observed that, in the assisted care facility where he is living, the devoutly Christian senior citizens around him are clinging more and more tightly to prayer as their days pass. This is hardly surprising. In any situation where we face difficult change—whether by warfare, decaying morality, disease, natural disaster, or any among an array of possible physical and psychological challenges, including death ...
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