A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.
WBUR’s On Point host Jane Clayson: Science and faith aren’t at war with each other, says renowned Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant. They’re just in different
Imagine, if you will, says Lori Anne Ferrell, a professor of early modern history and literature at Claremont Graduate University, the furor that might arise if a president decided to re-edit the Bible to suit his own beliefs. That is exactly what Thomas Jefferson did: excising the miracles and inconsistencies he found within the four gospels and pasting the rest of Jesus’ “ethical teachings” into a single narrative.
Kenyan Bishop Thomas Kogo said the church had decided to forbid homosexuals from going to their churches if they could not repent and stick to biblical teachings.
The Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, has spoken out against FOCA, “accusing them of ‘ungracious’ behaviour. Dr Sentamu said he had been ‘deeply grieved’ at reports of criticism and ‘scapegoating’ by the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans of the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams,” from a news report.
A few weeks ago, the New York Post published a bit (filed under “entertainment”) about the Church of the Holy Trinity, an Episcopal Church on the Upper East Side where canine congregants are commonly in attendance. Fast forward to this week, where Huffington Post columnist Verena von Pfetten gets a kick out of the story, but digs a little deeper and discovers that this “Episcopalian” church is more than dog schtick.
Readers probably remember hearing talk of Akinola being denied entry to Jordan for the pre-GAFCON meetings that were being held there. While readers may remember this being downplayed in press releases coming out of GAFCON at the time, turns out Akinola believes it was an act of Satan himself intervening with Jordanian affairs of state in an effort to undermine the conference.
It won’t be news to you, but many clergy are irritated about being pressured to do weddings for couples who want a church wedding, but
Thomas Jefferson epitomized what it meant in America to be a man of the Enlightenment. At his estate of Monticello, he displayed busts of Bacon, Locke, and Newton. Incredibly broad in interests and abilities, Jefferson was sufficiently interested in religious matters that one scholar has described him as “the most self-consciously theological of all America’s presidents.”