PAULA NEAL MOONEY

I don't like the feeling in my gut... by Paula Neal Mooney Last night I went to bed thinking about Rev. Pat Robertson's predictions of an upcoming attack on the US. Rev. Robertson said that God told him the attack will result in "mass killings" and direly affect millions of folks. This morning I woke up with Rev. Pat Robertson's words on my mind and in my soul. This is not good... I thought. You see, I lean heavily on the Lord and Holy Spirit to tell me what to write each day. I don't like that Rev. Pat Robertson's words are still with me this morning. I don't like that I can't dismiss and mock Robertson's words as easily as some (not all) of the folks below have, a small portion of the bloggers who've pounced (except dennyrburk) and called Rev. Pat Robertson everything from a liar to a loon. For once in my life I'm hoping all the atheists, agnostics and "science is God" folks who so suredly declare that Rev. Pat Robert...

by Paula Neal Mooney ...or, more precisely, out of my Spirit, that is. I had the pleasure of interviewing Israel Houghton of the popular group Israel & New Breed probably two years ago now. "I did that inteview on my knees I was so grateful," I told my former copy desk chief friend Jim Kavanagh, formerly with the Akron Beacon Journal , now proudly with CNN. I probably should have mentioned that it was a phone interview with Israel "Iz" Houghton , but I'm sure he got my point... Anyway, Israel was so gracious to grant a newbie like me my first "celebrity" interview. He'd just returned from South Africa, where he'd recorded the amazing Alive in South Africa CD and DVD. Israel confirmed some of his dramatic testimony: White mother impregnated by a black man, kicked out of the house, contemplating abortion till she ran into a woman who told her "You are not forgotten" and led her in the sinner's prayer right on a California s...