Kwanzaa (or Kwaanza) is a week-long secular holiday honoring African-American heritage, observed from December 26 to January 1 each year, almost exclusively by African-Americans in the United States of America.Kwanzaa consists of seven days of...
Emil Schürer writes: "The third chief group of Philo's works on the Pentateuch is a Delineation of the Mosaic Legislation for non-Jews. In this whole group indeed, the allegorical explanation is still occasionally employed. In the main however we...
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331): While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo's special and...
by Klaas Schilder, 1890-1952.Translation of Christus en CultuurISBN 0-88756-008-31. Christianity and Culture. I. Title.BR115.C8S313 261.5 C77-002118-2Copyright© G van Rongen and W. Helder, 1977A note on the text This translation was published by...
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and...
(Published in Tremendous Trifles, Methuen and Co Ltd, London, 1909. Originally appeared in the DAILY NEWS, November 4, 1905.) I remember one splendid morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away from the...
In light of the December 1996 Circuit Court ruling in Hawaii to void a state marriage license prohibition for same-sex couples, there can be no doubt that the homosexuality[1] issue will continue to be one of the biggest challenges that our...
I wonder where I go from here?” I said absently to myself. “There are so many doors.”I had entered the building rather skeptically, having only met the Owner’s Son a week before. I decided to visit His Father’s House.The building itself was huge....
Augustine on EvilbyGregory KouklIs God the author of evil or its helpless victim? St. Augustine's answer has been the most intellectually credible and emotionally satisfying solution to this vexing problem. One doesn't need a Ph.D. in theology to...