GREGORY ELDER
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This delightful question serves as a reminder that fathers--and...Switzer, John B
They say that history is written by the winners, who will flatter themselves; but the Iliad shows that even so, the winners are not always admirable in mythic accounts. Myth thus seems more true to life, as we also see in the moral complexity of the Mahābhārata. Changed in Philosophy:...
All Christians are priests by virtue of the baptism into Christ Who is priest, prophet and king – for which reason St. Peter refers to the Church as a “royal priesthood” (I Pet. 2:9). The bishop is the “high priest,” the “president of the Eucharist and all the Mysteries. ...
I had said a few times that Peter Singer, contrary to hyperbolic claims by some that he was the father of animal rights, was neither vegetarian nor truly anti-vivisection, unlike much more famous and articulate persons such as Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Shelley, Henry Salt, or...
Oh Righteous Father, please help me to be more obedient and to never say no to my Lord when He commands me to do or say something. I do not want to be lord of my own life but want to have Jesus as my Lord and do what He tells me to prove that, indeed, He is my Lord, and...
So maybe lop and Cleopas are the same person and it’s a father and son walking together. It’s Jesus’s uncle and cousin, but we sure don’t know that for sure. All we know for sure is there is a single verse suggesting Jesus appeared to James and nobody in the New Testament ...
By comparison Dallas seemed wide open, but it wasn’t really, as we soon learned. Politically it was shut up tight. Ambitious newcomers like my father found the leadership of the city distant and mysterious, a cabal, and it would not do to crash the secret circle. You must prove ...
same being or substance as the Father.Consubstantialisis the Latin word, which may sound familiar to modern ears, since the current liturgical translation of the creed has the term rendered asconsubstantial. In Greek, the term used washomoousios, as opposed tohomoiousios(“of similar substance...
Here again, Melchizedek alludes to the righteousness of the Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus), who would become the King of Peace. Hebrews 7 goes on to describe this high priest as“without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he...