What does the Bible say about modesty? How should a Christian woman dress?While I believe this question applies completely equally to men, within the Christian church this topic has been mostly applied to woman.
At the beginning of the 20th century in Casamance, southern Senegal, a young woman with healing powers named Alandisso Bassene opened a shrine, and would quickly amass a following of both men and women. A clash with missionaries and French colonial administration would result in the most ...
Expanded Bible The Man Speaks to the Woman 4 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful!Your eyes behind your veil [C imparting a sense of mystery] are like doves [1:15]. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead [C a beautiful site in ...
Love stories make up a popular genre in and of themselves, the romance genre, but they are also at the heart of many of the most well-regarded stories in history, including Homer'sIliad, Ernest Hemingway'sThe Sun Also Rises, and also more recent, prize winning novels likeAll the Light ...
"Those of you who came to my house to be examined before the Easter holidays, stand up!"The speaker, a corpulent man in the garb of a priest, with a heavy cross dangling from his neck,fixed the class with a baleful glare. 1 - His small hard eyes seemed to bore through the six...
Bible section: There are many verses in the Bible that show how how Satan came to be. Some of them are not straight ford but some give a good description. Most of the verses that describe where Satan comes from are in the book of Revelation. In (Revelation 12:3) Satan appeared as a...
Does the above passage describe you? Are you a slave to your fear of death? If so, these verses are you for you! They are filled with hope because they point you to the One who can set you free from that fear. Jesus Christ, by his death on the cross, has the power to abolish ...
In that case, it is noteworthy that Dickinson does not describe God as perfect far from it. “He fumbles at your Soul/As Players at the Keys” (1-2) are the first two lines of the poem. Here, using simile, God is described as a piano player, not playing masterfully but merely ...
A few months ago I got a tribute to Frida Kahlo on my other foot, because I respect and admire her as a woman, as an activist, and as an artist. I wanted to carry these two thoughts with me. I chose this way to keep them close to me. I’m not saying you ever need to ...
new “generic” pronouns that could be used to describe people without specifying their genders. Some of them were created from existing English words, like “ou,” repurposed from a term in some dialects in England, or from other languages, like “le,” which in French means “the.” ...