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Christianity was far from homogenous as the early Churches flourished. It wasn’t a house with many rooms, it was many houses that evolved over time to the Christian Church we know today, as defined by the Nicene Creed. This category of posts is dedicated to these various Christianities.

Make Your Rage Count

Make Your Rage Count

“Jesus said, 1Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he willbecome troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule overthe All.”‘ — Saying 2, The Gospel of Thomas (as translated in “The Gnostic Gospels Master Collection” by Jeremy Payton) “Woke-ism” deserves much of the scorn and disdain it receives, as it is currently practiced in United States of Vespucci. It is practiced by outraged politically left-wing commentators, drenched in self-righteousness…

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Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – Making the Scriptures Entertaining

Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – Making the Scriptures Entertaining

What would it take to create a Christmas Pageant Play that was true to the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s birth, but would also accurately describe the people, places and events of the time? What would it take to make this story scripturally and historically accurate, but also highly entertaining? My last post showed how I tried 40 years ago to make the Christmas Story scripturally accurate, and it turned out to be a snooze-fest. Let’s move on to how to…

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Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – The Low Entertainment Value of Scriptural Accuracy

Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – The Low Entertainment Value of Scriptural Accuracy

My Norwegian mother raised me and my sister with a very strict upbringing, following an uncritical and literal interpretation of the Bible (ie. the world was flat and was less than 10,000 years old) and some very bizarre rules like we couldn’t use scissors on Sunday or use eating utensils with our left hand, and the words “hate” or “shut up” were swear words that we got our mouths washed out with soap for saying. My sister and I came…

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