How does a boy become “bar mitzvahed” and a girl “bat mitzvahed?” What ceremony is needed? What does the term mean? What is the history of it? What’s the purpose of it? The right and wrong ways to do it. Th
I wanted to know: what does the Bible tell us? It was just this past year in a Bible Study when this subject came up: Predestination and Election. When I heard the explanation, my initial reaction was: this doesn’t sound right or seem to reflect the God whom I came to know through...
What does the word "noble" still mean for us nowadays? How does the noble man betray himself, how is he recognized under this heavy overcast sky of the commencing plebeianism, by which everything is rendered opaque and leaden?—It is not his actions which establish his claim—actions are ...
as well as among some fundamentalist Jewish and Christian sects in America and elsewhere), it was considered impious for a man to infringe upon the deity’s prerogatives: specifically, to attempt to understand or to influence the phenomena of...
Polymath--the term some of us use when Renaissance man would be an understatement, may be the right category for Burgess. God did not make many of them. When I was a junior in college, I went to hear Burgess, then in his mid-50s, talk extemporaneously to maybe 250 undergraduate ...
The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) in the long run, does not matter. We must turn away from the distractions, but it’s hard when those who “design” the distractions are very VERY good at it. The challenge with facing up to the mul...
However, the reality of the near term is bleak, dark days are inevitable and we will likely not see a reversal in our lifetime. He reminds us that the early Church took hold in a pagan world. Persecution, torture, imprisonment, and martyrdom were part of the Christian experience. The ...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
Our noun αγγελος (aggelos) is generally thought to be related to a Persian term angaros, meaning mounted messenger or postman (see below), and even a Sanskrit word anjiras of similar meaning. In the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible, this word replaces the Hebrew noun מ...
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