[Much material in this week’s installment was published before in the context of another series. I believe however, it fits well with the subject we are tackling here. And so it is with apologies that I offer it here again.] Last time out we chronicled how during the first centuries of the Church, what had […]
SHORT TAKES
A TURKISH (BLOOD) BATH – President Erdogan of Turkey is moving swiftly and brutally against his perceived enemies. He has instituted a 3 month long state of emergency that gives him the freedom to address the situation without the hindrances of democratic checks and the rule of law to get in his way. His forces […]
ISRAEL: GOD’S OPEN SECRET – PART IV
Replacement Theology was not born of a philosophy so much as a natural / historical reaction to events; an attempt at accommodation. Over the first few centuries of the modern era, the Christian Idea had overthrown what had been an almost exclusively pagan world. Over time the ‘Jewishness’ of the institution had been at […]
A GREAT SHAKING !
“See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet once more I shake […]
THE GREAT DIVIDE !
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you that you may be sons of your Father […]