I was recently asked how many churches I have visited, and how many I intend to visit. And then a speculative question arose: Exactly how many churches are there in the world? To be clear, this was a reference to the number of church buildings, not the number of denominations or congreg...
He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations. 12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the peoples of the world,that enemies and foes could enter the gates of Jerusalem. 13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her ...
To many non-extremists this looks like racism and hypocrisy on the part of the West. It’s just the latest example of how brown lives don’t matter to Western leaders. The US-led invasion of Iraq showed how little Washington knew, or cared, for the consequences of its violence. Barack ...
The photo above shows an old-school pass, from 2023 passes are being issued as credit-card-size card tickets which can operate ticket gates. Japan Rail Pass or point-to-point tickets? Train fares in Japan are expensive as there are no cheap advance-purchase fares, just one hefty fixed ...
The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.l 11 My eyes fail from weeping,m I am in torment withinn; my hearto is poured outp on the ground because my people are destroyed,q because children and infants faintr in the streets of the city. 12 They ...
The Teaching of the Ancestors (Mk 7.1–13) 1Then some Pharisees and teachers of the Law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked him, 2“Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!” 3...
Juice, as in power. Or, as we in Chicago put it, clout. Whatever you call it, we got it big time. All over this land. In so many ways. “I have in the past, made note of some of those ways. And would like now to make note of another. “Atlantic magazine just put out its...
Many claims have been made about the resemblances between Christianity and earlier myths and religions. Some of those claims are true and others aren’t.
15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not. 16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: 17 And let none of you im...
realizes that Gold was in acoveted positionas the assistant to the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, who, according toThe Forward, isone of the “most influential American Jews” in the United StatesandThe Jerusalem Postlisted him asone of the top ten most influential Jews in the...