The rainbow reminds Jews and Christians of God's promise to Noah to never again create an Earth-destroying flood. In the Talmud, there is a blessing Jews can recite when beholding a rainbow: "Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, Who remembers the covenant, is ...
Scripture is particularly important for Christians. When church leaders refer to “the Bible” or “the Scriptures”, they usually mean “the Bible as we understand it through our theological doctrines”. The Bible is always interpreted by our churches through their particular theological lenses. Pop...
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The term “agnostic” was coined in 1870 by the biologist, T.H. Huxley (1825-1895). He took the Greek word “a” which means “without” and the Greek word “gnostos” which means “known” to create the word agnostic which has come to mean “the existence of God is unknown and/o...
Finally, we have the New Covenant in Jesus Christ. “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.’” (Jeremiah 31:31). This involves Christians today. Because humanity had fallen far from the gr...
I can’t put a few memes up on screen for you to see, but I think you understand what I’m talking about. Memes can be funny, serious, insightful, honoring and honorable, and because we’re human beings, memes can also be ill-advised and unwise, offensive, vulgar, mean, pornographic...
oh hang on, wait. What I mean was it is fine to brutally assault the feelings, achievements and beliefs of the majority of humanity today and of the past and compare them to vermin and cast them as a disease and stain upon civilization, but doing that to homosexuals would be wrong ...
I mean I had a Ford Pinto… that didn’t exactly exude “cool” to anyone. However, the stereo I put in it was probably as good or better than what the Gran Torino had it in. When I would drive around town, I would always crank the music on my stereo as loud as it could go...
Luther’s,“In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.”The pastor was talking about variations in dogma and practice among believers (e.g., whether it’s okay if some Christians celebrate Halloween). I immediately adapted it to the more secular issues that worry ...
I don’t know who exactly taught me I was going to hell. It wasn’t my parents. My mother, raised Southern Baptist, was clear that we attended the only Lutheran church for miles because the Lutherans weren’t mean. With queer lives and culture under threat, Our Queerest Century highligh...