asActs of the Apostles2:36 show that some early Christian writers knew thatthe Christwas properly a title, but in many passages of theNew Testament, including those in the letters of theApostle Paul, the name and title are combined and used together as Jesus’ name: Jesus Christ or Christ...
and together the movies and the records made him a rich man, although they nearly ruined him as any kind of artist. Presley did his best work in the 1960s on singles either unconnected to the films or only marginally stuck into them, recordings such as “It’s Now or Never (‘O Sole...
He had one successful book – his tell-all memoir about leaving the Mormon Church when he came out as gay – but everything in the 15 years since then has fallen flat. He’s not even sure he can be a writer anymore. Then his agent lands him a cushy job: the Hollywood star Roland...
Dead or alive, we’re all in this together. The Mexicancalaveras, cartoonish depictions of skeletons performing the activities of the living, make this point with comedic verve. I once saw a woodcut of three skeletons in festive dress, arms around each other, smiling and waving as they loo...
When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”New Revised Standard VersionBut when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s ...
If Jesus died in the place of others, why does everyone else also die? If the penalty for sin is hell forever, and if Jesus paid the penalty for all the sins of the world, why is Jesus not the only one in hell forever? Did God punish Jesus by making him die and go to hell, ...
I had recently gone part-time as a medicolegal death investigator with the intention of giving my fractured psyche a chance to knit itself back together after over a decade of constant trauma. I figured if I only worked part-time, maybe I could use the rest of the time to process, ...
104. “Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”―Epicurus 105. “When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”―Jim Elliot ...
Kite!” (1967), which featured stream-of-consciousness lyrics by Lennon and a typically imaginative arrangement (by George Martin) built around randomly spliced-together snippets of recorded steam organs—a tour de force of technological legerdemain quite typical of the band’s studio work in this...
Jean and Pierre. She had her standard painted with an image of Christ in Judgment and a banner made bearing the name ofJesus. When the question of aswordwas brought up, she declared that it would be found in the church of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois, and one was in fact discovered ...