Morris resigned from Gateway four days after Clemishire’s first interview about the abuse. A series of resignations and removals at Gateway followed, including the departure ofMorris’ son James, who had been set to succeed his father in leading the church. Gateway...
Who founded the Cistercians?Question:Who founded the Cistercians?The Four Phases of Catholic MonasticismMonasticism first emerged in Christianity very early - the hermits of Sketis in Egypt would be the earliest examples, but the monastery of Monte Cassino and St. Benedict of Nursia would become...
Who was the first priest of the Catholic church? Who invented the pendulum? Who created the headright system? Who created Egyptology? Who created the feudal system? Who established the Avignon Papacy? Who invented the first calendar? Who founded Nalanda University? Who was the Ilkhanate establishe...
Jews in the first century A.D. Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer have recently expressed this view in Tyndale’s new prophetic novel, The Last Disciple. Gary DeMar, John Noe, Ken Gentry Jr., Samuel Frost, Kurt Simmons and many others teach this idea. To Preterists, the beast is dead...
To understand the meaning of theFirst Amendment,it is necessary to knowwhat preceded it. Who proposedits wording,whodebated it,whopassed it,andwho ratified it. The13 coloniesin America were founded byChristiansofdifferent denominations: In 1607,Virginiawas founded byAnglican...
‘My commission is threefold, and ranges from (1) the first spiritual life and gifts of those who have been chosen by God, through (2) the growing life of the true man of God thoroughly furnished, to (3) all the hope of glory; how your people in Crete may be justified, sanctified,...
With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth ...
My favorite memory is of the underwater bridge. – Starleen W. Roebuck I remember when Roebuck Shopping Center opened, the first shopping center in Birmingham. Banks High School was the best. Go Jets! Southside I loved playing with all the neighborhood kids. We would skate, ride bikes and...
The process of becoming a saint has been defined over time, but in the days of the early Catholic Church, it had far less definition. Saints were prolific, essential to prayer, faith, and communication with the divine. Saints were martyrs, models for devotion, confessors, and ...
When comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in 1997, it caused a major stir, especially when the character she played on her sitcom "Ellen" came out too. The move made her the first openly gay lead character on a prime-time TV show and caused many fans to jump ship. In 2020...