he descended to the dead. Firstly let me re-stress something. The ever-popular author, Dan Brown, gets it exactly back to front. In The Da Vinci Code he has the gnostics, whom early mainline Christians considered as having false teaching, as thinking that Jesus was fully human, and he has early “mainline” Christians as teaching Jesus
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he suffered death and was buried was crucified, died, and was buried There is this strange day in the church year: Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday, when Jesus dies, and Easter Day when he rises from the dead. Some call it Easter Saturday – that’s absolutely incorrect – Easter Saturday is a week
Katharine Welby has just blogged about her depression. It received media coverage and online comment. I appreciate it so much that she speaks of “hopeful depression”. That she has humour with depression… I’ve been following her on twitter for some time now. Her profile has increased since her dad became the Archbishop of Canterbury recently.
We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain (Heb 6:19) The anchor was a very popular symbol in the early church. Its popularity faded at the start of the fourth century – when Christianity became legal. In catacombs it is obviously
Howard Thurman (1899 – April 10, 1981) wrote: When the song of the angels is stilled,When the star in the sky is gone,When the kings and princes are home,When the shepherds are back with their flock,The work of Christmas begins:To find the lost,To heal the broken,To feed the hungry,To release the prisoner,To rebuild the nations,To
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Let us pray (in silence) [that we may persevere in our growth into God’s life] pause God of all inspiration, you caused all holy scriptures to be written for our instruction grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by steadfastness, and by the encouragement of your holy Word,
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The Torah reading in the synagogue this Sabbath is the start of Deuteronomy: Deut. 1:1-3:22 Moses is nearly 120 years old. No one who was wandering in the desert for 40 years is around anymore except a few good men (Joshua and Caleb). The Synagogue is moving from Numbers (Bemidbar) to Words (Devarim). The Sabbath
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This blog post complements Architectural Design Guidelines 1 by providing some notes around the Christian tradition of orientating church buildings to face East. In some sense, then, you can regard this post as Architectural Design Guidelines 1a – footnotes on church building orientation. I hope this post interests many even though it is driven by
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