The Silk Road and Via Appia-conclusion

Spread of Christianity outline: waves of diaspora create hubs to facilitate spread of new religion, merchants and missionaries, St. Paul-religion mixed with gentile ideas and worship Christianity spread through the Roman empire. Via Appia made it easier. St. Paul as a Roman citizen( he was from Tarsus in South- Central Anatolia) was free to move [...]

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The Silk Road and Via Appia-4

Roman road system Via Appia is the crowning achievement among transportation network of the ancient Mediterranean world, extending from Britain to the Tigris-Euphrates river system and from the Danube River to Spain and northern Africa. In all, the Romans built 50,000 miles (80,000 km) of hard-surfaced highway, primarily for military reasons. The first of the [...]

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News on the March: Castration

There is yet another scandal brewing concerning the Catholic Church in the Netherlands following allegations, which were published last weekend in the NRC Handelsblad newspaper. It not only sounds ludicrous as a medical procedure, but in moral terms it’s downright barbarous: castrating young men to “cure” them of their homosexuality. Yet this was how the [...]

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A Fable: Dust to Dust

The Aztecs believed in after life. They sacrificed the first born to the Sun in a belief that the dead occupied the starry heavens as souls. These souls according to them merely kept the best place in reserve for their fathers and for the siblings. Thus each Aztec warrior took pride that the perfect fruit [...]

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On Mega-churches and TV Ministry

A Fable :What Price Grace? © One pastor having misled his flock by heretical teaching wanted to put a stop to it. Not from any sense of guilt but he had made millions and besides was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He had made people believe white was black,- that in his case was making God [...]

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Agnes Dei

When God breathed into the nostrils of man something happened to him. He became a living soul. His will came into an active mode. Thoughts, action and emotions that engaged him was not something that was mechanical; but instead it could take flights of fancy. Love for instance. Looking at other creatures (that came into [...]

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In My Sunday Best-4

The New Jerusalem Rev 21:10-14 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear [...]

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A New Jerusalem-work in progress

St.Matt 16:18-19,23 And I tell you that you are Peter,[and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth [...]

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On Inferiority Complex

I do not think I ever suffered from it. On the other hand I had to fight all my life to keep a reasonable hold on to my abilities and failings. To think more than what is real is as bad as to miss what is genuine and apparent.  As a Christian I believe I [...]

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In My Sunday Best-2

Gen 4:3-6 2 Ti 3:16-17 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his [...]

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