,jade,glass, andpottery. For example, theHanemperorWudi(reigned 141/140–87/86bce) established an academy that contained paintings and calligraphies from each of the Chinese provinces, and the last Han emperor,Xiandi (abdicated 220ce), established a gallery containing portraits of his ministers....
John theBaptistand Jesus and the earlyChurchadvocated aDaily ministrationthat was dependent onCharityonly and it was not like the system ofCorbanof thePhariseesand Rome.Private welfareisPure Religion. Contents 1Hope vs Entitlements 2Footnotes ...
It wasn't the other side that was being accused either - but his own: "They are anti-Scottish and anti-working class," his defender protested to yesterday's papers, about unnamed Labour ministers. "There is a snob … Read the full-text article with a free, 1-day trial of Questia ...
AlthoughThe Pilgrim’s Progressis allegorical,it is impossible even for an adult to read about Christian’s journey to the Celestial City in any other way than as a story.The passages through the Slough of Despond and the Valley of Humiliation, the fight with the monster Apollyon, the loss ...
John Piper, a former megachurch pastor in Minnesota and one of the most influential evangelical voices, saidchurches and their ministers should remain apart from political activism. Their job, rather, is to “feed the saints” who perform charity. ...
order to be “saved.” But many Evangelicals, like former presidentJimmy Carter, are religious liberals who take relatively less-traditional positions on some of the issues that have enraged fundamentalists. Unlike fundamentalists, for example, many Evangelicals accept the idea of women ministers. ...