For instance, an agnostic does not know if God exists or not. How can he say he believes something and at the same time say he doesn’t know if it is true? If he doesn’t know it to be true, he must be an atheist. Does he say he is an agnostic-atheist because he is open t...
What does the Bible say about Halloween? What is the danger of Halloween that many people are not aware of? What’s the history of Halloween? The roots of Halloween are found in the ancient Celtic harvest feast ’Samhain’. Samhain marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter. The...
I think that it is a crucial way of living for women and [inaubible]. I think that self-conscious recognition of our feelings are one of the primary ways of making the stuff we need to move through our lives. I think poetry is the visual actual recreation of this stuff in a way ...
I am sure you are tired of sitting on my sun room floor surrounded by your collages and with a bible on top. I thought you might like the bible on top of you. I tried to read it last night and stopped again. Then I read the Lent devotions instead. Then I had to return a phone...
It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need. — Watchman Nee 182 Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are ...
Even in the Church, it makes sense for the impulses and aspirations of a pope to be at least somewhat restrained by institutional experience and judgment. The authority given a pope means he must be circumspect in what he says and does, and the ecclesiastical equivalent of civil servants, who...
In the Bible, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. That’s a pretty good summer for Wales. That’s a hosepipe ban waiting to happen… I was eight before I realised you could take a cagoule off. –Rhod Gilbert O where are our fathers, O brothers of mine? By the graves of...
When you refer to mythic religions, are you talking about the kinds of stories we read in the Bible? Or any of the world's great religions. Laotzu was 900 years old when he was born. According to the Hindus, the earth is resting on a serpent, which is resting on an elephant, which...
discusses different types of government (with monarchy as the preferred one for the author) and the relationship between the civil power and the Church (to which christians have an allegiance and commandments to follow), for which the author discusses in depth different passages of the Bible. ...
Again, for Blake, seeing such ghosts was not at all upsetting; it was but one in a series of supernatural visitors, including, apparently Satan – the true devil –“all else are apocryphal”. Late in life, Crabb Robinson had a conversation with Blake, in which he asked: “You use the...