The Philippines’ Strongman Syndrome

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At the end of the American Civil war 20,000 Confederates immigrated to Brazil, where slavery was legal & formed a community

What was the Holy Roman Empire?

What was the Holy Roman Empire? What role to the Holy Roman Empire have in European Christian history?

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What happened at Mars Hill in the Bible?

What happened at Mars Hill in the Bible? What is the biblical significance of Mars Hill?

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Everyday Life in the Time of Jesus of Nazareth

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Curious to what life was like in the time of Jesus of Nazareth?

The following bullet points of the socioeconomic life of that time is summarized from New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg’s book Jesus And the Gospels:

• The Jewish people made up roughly 8% of the Roman empire. Of the 50 million inhabitants of the Roman empire, 4 million were Jews and 700,000 of them lived in Israel. (55)

• Jesus ministered mainly outside of large pro-Roman cities. However, the region of Galilee was not as rural as you think–“…the majority of Galilee was made up of as many as two hundred small villages, few as large as Capernaum, which had possibly one thousand inhabitants. We must therefore avoid stereotyping Jesus and his disciples as roaming through largely uninhabited regions with large farms. Galilee, was in some respects more urban than we imagine it.” (57)

• News was either posted in town squares…

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The word lead

The English word “lead” originated from an Anglo Saxon word, laeden, that meant to follow a course. The original meaning did not involve having, or demanding, followers. Followers originally meant, in effect, fellow-ers – people who walked along the same journey. They did not strive to become the leader of everyone else who were going in the same direction. In it’s pure form lead simply meant to be led by what is right. It was a sound method because human leaders come and go, what is right is always there for you and all others who will come later on the same right course. It is that actual meaning of “lead” ” that is found in true Christianity ” that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty”.

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Francis Questions President Trump’s Pro-Life Views

Francis Questions President Trump’s Pro-Life Views, It is Trump who should call into question Francis’ pro-life views

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