Michael BirnbaumAnthony Faiola
5 Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.” 6 Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they took it up and went ahead of them. 7 And the Lord said to Joshu...
Although the concept of authenticity is generally recognized to have its roots in ancient Greek philosophy (“To thine own self be true”; see Harter, 2002, for a historical review), the modern conception of authenticity emerged within the past 80 years (Erickson, 1995a). Drawing from the po...
As tensions grew among Arabs and Zionists, Britain submitted the Palestine problem first to Anglo-U.S. discussion for a solution and later to the United Nations (UN), which on November 29, 1947, proposed partition of the country into separate Arab and Jewish states and the internationalization...
Sixteen standing committees are grouped mainly around major policy areas, each having staffs, budgets, and various subcommittees. The chair of each committee is a member of the majority party. Among important standing committees are those on appropriations,finance, government operations,foreign relations...
Fluffy the three–headed dog is like Cerberus, a Greek monster who guarded the entry to Hades, and like Cerberus, Fluffy is calmed by soft music.{5} Who says children immersed in the Potter books aren’t being tutored in neopaganism?
Owen Barfield, the one real philosopher among the Inklings, made a similar point about the Latin spiritus and the Greek pneuma. Unlike our one-dimensional word spirit, these words mean wind-breath-spirit simultaneously. For ancient Greeks and Romans to have uttered such words was to have ...
Although the concept of authenticity is generally recognized to have its roots in ancient Greek philosophy (“To thine own self be true”; see Harter, 2002, for a historical review), the modern conception of authenticity emerged within the past 80 years (Erickson, 1995a). Drawing from the po...
Hitler’s ideas included inequality amongraces, nations, and individuals as part of an unchangeable natural order that exalted the “Aryanrace” as the creative element of mankind. According to Hitler, the natural unit of mankind was theVolk(“the people”), of which the German people was the...
fell before the onslaught of the state militia. Among those killed were members of Menno’s congregation and Peter Simons, who may have been his brother. This prompted him to preach openly against the errors of the revolutionaries. In doing so, hearticulatedwith increasing clarity what he believ...