The service was officiated by Bishop Barry Rogerson in Bristol Cathedral. Rogerson ordained the women in alphabetical order, soAngela Berners-Wilsonis considered the very first woman to be ordained. The youngest woman to be ordained was Karen MacKinnon at age 30, with Jean Kings being the second...
Unless the New Testament specifically does away with some of these specific laws and commands back from the Old Testament, I believe that we have to assume that God still wants all of us to abide by them.And this command that we are not to tattoo or cut into any part of our flesh sti...
When my great-grandmother wanted to marry my great-grandfather she actually had to wait for him to be able to afford tobuy her from the people who owned her “contract” (i.e. her person) as a domestic servant. This was in the United States, by the way. Three generations ago. W...
Eventually, such toxins cause damage at the cellular level and lead to diseases like cancer. When smoked foods are cooked at high temperatures, the nitrates are converted to the much more dangerous nitrites. [Note: By pickled foods we don’t mean the fermented foods you make at home.] Soda...
What Vacation Bible School Looks Like in A Nursing HomeBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksKaren Swallow Prior
Amish speak a version of German known as Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch. It has some similarities with dialects of German spoken in Europe today. This is their first language. Pennsylvania Dutch, as spoken by the Amish today, includes some En
in the Bible with Elijah being a Catholic priest sent as a representative from the papacy to the Ahab of the story – a charismatic leader trying to unite Europe and bring in a new age. It felt like an average movie – little depth, mostly plot, lots of twists. It was okay. I hope...
248 Independence Day Celebrations and Counting: But What Does it all Mean? July 3, 2024 by Warner Todd Huston Read More Screenshot Today America enjoys the celebration of 248 years as a nation by noting the day we declared our independence from England. Sadly, that celebration has, for ...
‘Happy Valley’. Over the years the community development team has grown to six staff. Jane now has the task of developing a strategy for the team and being able to explain to the council why it should continue to be resourced. The problem is that there does not seem to be a common ...
Meillassoux’s classic study of certain Aican societies, for instance, proposed circumstances in which it was not economically feasible to have female slaves breed.”12Does sexual use, however, inevitably mean breeding of new slaves, or does it more generally take the form of “concubinage...