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Aug.19.2012
Whether in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or virtually any other faith tradition, the emphasis is almost always on performing in hopes of pleasing a God is who not only distant but demanding. I hear it all the time. Heck, I preached it for decades.
"Repent!" "Strive!" "Turn or burn!" "Believe and...
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Aug.03.2012
You'd be cryptic too if you were uprooted wherever you went. You can't blame your ancestors for keeping quiet about their Hebrew origins, they wanted to live. And so today, we live, because our ancestors said "enough already" and were eventually convinced into joining the Christian belief system....
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Jul.31.2012
The hardest thing to do sometimes is exposing what you know to others. What would they do with it? Would they abuse it or take it and become better than you? Isn’t it yours for keepsakes? I mean, common you worked so hard to get to where you are just for someone else to step in and count their...
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Jul.30.2012
We’ll talk about the title of this post in a second. First, I want to state that this is the first in many blog posts where I try to address some in-depth and sometimes complex issues/themes in the world, Christianity, and the arts and entertainment. Starting next week I’ll be diving into an...
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Jul.10.2012
Many of the Jews that were forced to leave Spain had previously (for their safety and security) converted to Christianity. Many knew quite a bit about how to pose as a Christian and probably even more knew how to keep their mouths shut. Perhaps it was during such trying times that the old saying, “...
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Jun.26.2012
The following article is copy of a blogpost appearing the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-mcswain/what-the-rapture-and-the-_b_...
Either America will elect the "right" person in the upcoming election (which for most fundamentalist Christians is almost anyone other than the...
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May.22.2012
If you don't love Dostoevsky or Russian literature of the 19th century, or if you are not an historian, this probably is a volume you can skip.
But if you are an historian in particular--more than a lover of Dostoevsky and literature of his century--you probably would want to read this book and...
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May.17.2012
Rome and Nero are fascinating subjects, as are the vestal virgins, women who are educated and held sacrosanct, priestesses of of the goddess Vesta who are responsible for all the legal documents in the Empire. Matching a vestal virgin with Nero, throwing in a Sibylline prophecy, and fleshing out...
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May.03.2012
I'm still working on an historical novel set in medieval times. Of course, this necessitated a lot of research; still, that age didn't have a scintilla of the informational resources that we have today, so imagination - tempered with logic - has its work cut out for it.
image via historyforkids....
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May.02.2012
Lately I was surprised to run across a term I’d never heard before, “Hebrew-Christians”. This is an old term appearing in historic census records from the Holy Land and Poland, referring to Jews who considered their ethnicity as Jewish but their religion to be Christian. Of course the earliest...
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