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Continue reading →: The first commandment of Patriotic JesusPatriotic Jesus says: “I am your Nation, your God. You shall have no other nations before me.” Because Jesus was all about nationalism, right?!!
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Continue reading →: Guns in the Garden of EdenI imagine the serpent is saying, “Go ahead, make my day”. Gun culture needs to be recognised for what it is: a temptation.
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Continue reading →: Lord as Ladder of PerfectionIn her book Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, Ursula King writes: “A wealth of scriptural passages have inspired Jewish and Christian mystics alike. Through an allegorical reading of Scripture, the mystical significance of particular texts was heightened so that biblical images and teachings nourished Christian mystics…
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Continue reading →: Iconography in Ancient House ChurchesFor those of you interested in ancient Christian artwork and the iconoclasm controversies of different epoches of the church I would recommend reading this article on Iconography in Ancient House Churches. It summarises archialogical evidence suggesting that, not only were early churches emphatically not iconoclastic, that neither were synagoges.
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Continue reading →: Nature as window and mirrorThought for the day. Nature can function as a window, revealing God if looked at in the right way. Nature can also function as a mirror, reflecting our own brokenness back at us.
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Continue reading →: What is esotericism?Here is a summary from the Encyclopedia of Religion. ESOTERICISM. Esotericism has several meanings. After presenting a list of them, this article deals with the use of the term in scholarly parlance and with the various approaches toward this academic speciality in religious studies. A VARIETY OF MEANINGS. The substantive…
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Continue reading →: How should we follow?Follow Jesus always Use buildings when you have to
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Continue reading →: Why war fails as a solution for terrorismHoward Zinn on terrorism: “If a bomb is deliberately dropped on a house or a vehicle on the grounds that a ‘suspected terrorist’ is inside . . . , the resulting deaths of women and children may not be intentional. But neither are they accidental. The proper description is “inevitable.”…
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Continue reading →: What is your favourite story about Moses?I think my favourite story about Moses would have to be the burning bush incident, where Moses first encounters God while shepherding sheep in the wilderness at mount Horeb. We are told that the angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in flames of fire from within a bush and…
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