Saint John the Apostle, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and traditionally believed to be the author of the three Letters of John, the Fourth Gospel, and possibly the Revelation to John in the New Testament. He played a leading role in the early churc
My parents divorced when I was six and my brother was two. She had to return to work as the switchboard operator at a trucking company. My Mom, Ronnie, and I lived with my grandmother in a small one-bedroom apartment in a section of the house. Two very loving women of God raised me...
Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his cornpatriots. After his death, in December 1751, the friends of the dear departed feared the lasting stigma, likely to follow the posthumous publication of his philosophical works. Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, the great–grandson of Clarendon, felt...
Good outweighs the evil, salvation would be at hand, for it could be expected that "the offenses of which thou art accused will be eliminated, thy fault wiped out by the balancing of the balance, in the day of the evaluation of qualities; thou causes the weighing to be made as Thoth....
‘righteous’—which provided immense relief from the guilt of being overly upset. The apostle St Paul gave what was possibly the best sales pitch for born-again, Prophet-Focused Religious life when he wrote,‘Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone[...
The inhabitants of this region lead good, honest lives and are not cannibals like other barbarian nations; they have no letters, nor do they have kings, but they venerate their elders and offer them obedience; they give the name Thomas to their children [after St Thomas the Apostle]. While...
Death by Churchhas a point to make–that God is saving “all of creation” (eg. p. 100) and that the “church” is not the substance of the kingdom of God (i.e., the whole of creation and all of humanity is). In fact, Erre says, the church is not the kingdom of God at ...
St. Johns Church St. Johns is an Episcopal church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was the site of two important conventions in the period leading to the American Revolutionary War, and is most famous as the location where Patrick Henry gave his closing speech at the Second Virginia ...
Also called: St. Matthew the Evangelist, St. Matthew the Apostle, or Levi Flourished: 1st century ce, Palestine Flourished: c.1 - c.100 Show More St. Matthew (flourished 1st century ce, Palestine; Western feast day September 21, Eastern feast day November 16) was one of the Twelve...