some curious. Please, know them, learn their meaning, but remember that those labels that we are given, those words, do not define us, they do not define you. These words and insults define those who use them, and the peoples and periods in which they originated. ...
which could literally be translated as a boy/son/boy of men. On the one hand, it is used to point to bottom homosexual men, and on the other, it is the expression used in the Swahili version of the Bible to refer to Jesus Christ as “son of men” in the sense of the son of ...
William Tyndale's 1535 Bible translates the verse: "upon this rock I will build my congregation." W.D. Ross wrote inAristotle(London, Methuen, 1937, p. 247): "Aristotle's ... citizen is not content to have a say in the c...
That’s something unusual and great about America. For all the divisiveness and emotion, we’re still a great melting pot of ethnicities and variations with the common goal of making the country great. People don’t care so much about the color of your skin or where you came from. They ...
In 1599, for instance, perhaps aware that the matter had proved deeper than anticipated, the printers of the Geneva Bible included for the first time two items to assist the reader: a prefatory diagram of 'How to take profite in reading of the holy Scriptures,' and a poem, itself a ...
— Elizabeth Bishop 29 Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff. — George Carlin 27 The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, ...
My interest in Buddhism began in my early forties, and now in my sixties I have a great appreciation for how this ancient philosophy has impacted my life for the better. One way to define a householder is to state what they are not. A householder is not a monk that has left their ...
1. Where does the Bible teach the Catholic doctrine of the pope’s infallibility? Before you build a biblical case for infallibility, make sure the person you are speaking to knows what infallibility means. To non-Catholic ears, the term may be synonymous with anything from omniscience to sin...
My interest in Buddhism began in my early forties, and now in my sixties I have a great appreciation for how this ancient philosophy has impacted my life for the better. One way to define a householder is to state what they are not. A householder is not a monk that has left their ...
Dr. Hudson: Well, it wasn’t simply Jesus’ role to begin with. We know now from the Dead Sea Scrolls that there was a large movement among the Jews to make sort of midrashes, quotations from all of the different parts of the Bible, including the prophets that mentioned debt cancellati...