If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting the Jewish one, which begins Wednesday at sundown, as your own. Source: You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Celebrate Rosh Hashana – The New York Times
Would-be United Methodist “Bishop” Karen Oliveto warns against making Jesus an “idol,” and purports to expose his sins, “bigotries and prejudices”! Source: Lesbian “Bishop” Karen Oliveto Warns to Not “Create an Idol Out of” Jesus, Says He Had “Bigotries and Prejudices” – Juicy Ecumenism
By James Bishop|Jewish Sources1. Josephus Flavius (95 AD)Perhaps the earliest non-Biblical account of Jesus comes from the 1st century historian Josephus Flavius. The Gospel of John, our latest Gospel coming in at +- 60 years after Jesus death (30 AD) comes very close to Flavius’ account. Neve Source: A List Of Extra-Biblical Sources For The […]
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Some congregations maintain some of Jesus’s Jewish traditions by following the holiday schedule set out in the Old Testament Source: Christians who celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a growing trend | The Times of Israel
(The review that follows is lengthy, so I’ve linked a PDF copy here.) Introduction “God is wrath? Or God is love?” This dichotomy printed in bold on the back drives the argument of Brian Zahn… Source: Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God by Brian Zahnd (Long Review) | Reformedish
Tim Keller on three brief things that need to be said in Charlottesville’s aftermath. Source: Race, the Gospel, and the Moment
As congregations dwindle, a new religion is lighting up Denver, Colorado. Aaron Millar joins the ‘elevationists’ of the International Church of Cannabis who worship the weed Source: Holy smoke! The church of cannabis | Global | The Guardian
I spent the first two of my first three blog entries (seen here and here) introducing myself. Now I am ready to dive into issues. As I stated in the first blog, I will tend to alternate between […] Source: Politics and the Progressive Christian
The pictures are chilling and heartbreaking: zombie-like adults passed out in the front seat of a car, overdosed on opioids, a small child belted into the infant seat in the back, safe from traffic accidents but not from his or her own parents. America, in short, has an addiction problem. The statistics on deaths from drug overdoses collected […]
