” As Christians we are the temple of God. 2 Corinthians 6:16 ” for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk inthem;and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” When Mary and Joseph found Jesus, he was in the ...
I think some of us are reluctant to dig deeper into this parable because it challenges our status quo. We who are the “early-bird Christians” might secretly feel we are better than the newly converted Christian. The people whose families have been in the United States for generations secret...
historic fact is that Christians have continued to regard certain buildings as especially significant, and sometimes other types of places too. Even in ‘low’ church traditions Christian communities often do not believe that the ‘sanctuary’ should be used for ‘secular’ purposes, for instance.2...
It is true that there have been periods of relatively increased tolerance fordhimmisin certain times and places in the Muslim world -- times when things weren’t as bad fordhimmisas they could have been. But the current propaganda about the supposedly traditional tolerance for Christians and Jews...