Men sometimes tell other men to “Stop acting like bitch” – meaning that they should stop acting moody or emotional like a woman. But most women, outside the black community, utterly hate being called a bitch by men. It is considered one of the most disrespectful things a man can say...
have tried to claim that since “ish”(meaning man) is used more often than “baal” to refer to a woman’s husband that this is how God wants a wife to see her husband, as her man and not as her master. These
The Campus Martius, where the Romans practiced athletic and military exercises, was named after him; so was the month of March (Martins). the first month of the Roman year. The Ludi Martiales (games held in his honor) were celebrated every year in the circus on the 1st of August. ...
I drew this picture maybe two or three years ago. It deals with how the church sometimes translated the Bible in such a way that the (egalitarian) meaning of the text does not come through, and then church members pointed to those translations to “prove” their point. For example, “hea...
Some Christians have a narrow view of what godly women can be and can do. They believe their view is based on what the Bible shows us about women. They have even named their view “Biblical Womanhood.” These Christians seem to think that godly women are limited to being wives and mother...
Russell says that it continues to be sown to the end of February (Nat. Hist. Aleppo, 1:74; see his meaning evolved in Kitto's Phys. Hist. of Palestine, p. 214; comp. p. 229). The barley of the first crop was ready by the time of the Passover, in the month Abib, March-...
The application of the two powers terminology to early Christian texts is regarded by some as an anachronistic application that could distort the intended original meaning of these sources. Yet, the study argues that such a move provides a novel methodological framework that enables a better ...
The elementary school here was also the one time in my life that I’ve ever said the n-word. During a 4th grade discussion of a book we’d read for class which took place in the rural south shortly after the Civil War, I wanted to know the meaning of the one word I hadn’t und...
First off all I want to remind the reader that we are discussing “human rights”, meaning rights that all human beings have in common. There are many more rights that God gives to various groups such as males vs females, husbands vs wives, free vs slave and adults vs children. This ...
He alludes more particularly to the lilies of Syria and of Pamphylia being well suited for making the ointment of lily. Pliny enumerates three kinds, a white, a red, and a purple-colored lily. Travelers in Palestine mention that in the month of January the fields and groves everywhere ...