Wasn’t it you who told me that when the United States entered World War I, it was practically over? A character in a book I started reading, ‘We Shall Not Sleep’ by Anne Perry, makes
Kingdom of God – the sovereign rule of God. That is what the resurrection and ascension of Jesus and the gift of the Spirit are all about. They are designed not to take us away
8/7/11 Meanwhile I am also reading In Memoriam AHH, which I started reading due to the famous phrase ‘Nature red in tooth and claw,’ quoted in Darwin’s Origin of Species. This is a very interesting
Luke Timothy Johnson article in Commonweal, cited in Wikipedia article on supersessionism. bc.edu has other stuff from L. Johnson in search. Also Boston College? Supersessionism comes up again in this week’s reading. Much has been made
That fact that the biblical version is strikingly similar to the Mesopotamian versions, as we have seen, reflects the cultural connections between these peoples. The differences between them reflect their different theologies. The Israelite version
The ‘English Novel’ course (Timothy Spurgin) caused me to read ‘Waverly’ by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor of the historical novel. This is the first of about 50 books he wrote. One other one that
“One of the big things we’re fighting for right now is collaboration. With the oncoming of (the neighborhood schools model) we’ve tried to come with the district to create ways to build time into our
Good explanation of Trump- Carnoy argued that “large blocs of the U.S. population have not been swept up in the economic growth of the past 40 years, which has largely enriched the top 1 percent
The Powers That Be, according to some reader reviews on Amazon, summarizes the 3 earlier ‘powers’ books, in which he identifies what in the Bible are referred to as demons or evil beings, are actually
The proud, the powerful and the prosperous get depicted throughout the Gospels as God’s enemies—not because they are rich and powerful, but because of the ways they abuse their riches and power. They presumptuously grab