The first blow that started the warlike crack inside the Messianic Jerusalem Church occurred at the Council of Jerusalem held on 50 A. … The Christians that separated from Judaism misinterpreted this Jerusalem Council verdict as “doing away” with the Mosaic Law….This short-lived revolt was the most significant event in the split between Judaism and Messianic Gentile Christianity….The Pharisees that believed in the Messiah, which developed into Rabbinic Judaism, and the Messianic Gentile Christians….
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A LITTLE LEAVEN, LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP: The EPHESUS CHURCH of the Kabbalistic Book of Revelation – 2
Opening thought : What a decade the last one was, huh? We started 2000 with a Constitutional Crisis in which the Supreme Court determined the winner of the Presidential election, soon followed with September 11 th , the worst day since December 7 th , 1941.
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Numbers 14 – The Price of Rebellion
Although the traditional day for the celebration of the Epiphany of the Lord is January 6, the celebration is now often moved to the Sunday closest to the day, which means the Catholic Church celebrates the Epiphany today. I confess that the first use of the term “epiphany” that had any real significance to me was the secular use of the term by James Joyce to refer to a sudden flash of insight or perception. I remember spending lots of time in senior High School English class talking about epiphanies in Joyce’s Dubliners and others of his works
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Solemnity of the Epiphany
Dear Religion Clause Readers: Happy New Year! As we enter 2010, I want to again thank all of you who read Religion Clause– both long time followers and those who have joined us more recently. With the advent of the Obama administration last January, some readers asked me whether there would continue to be sufficient church-state and religious liberty developments to sustain the blog
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Happy 2010 To Religion Clause Readers!
The South Windsor, Connecticut, Board of Education has voted to move South Windsor High School’s 2010 graduation from the First Cathedral in Bloomfield to the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. The move came after Americans United and the ACLU threatened to sue the Enfield school system which also uses the Cathedral, and made preliminary inquiries of South Windsor. (See prior posting .) Wednesday’s Hartford Courant reports that the Cathedral has charged fees of $7400 to $8000 for schools to use its facilities.
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Connecticut School Will Move Graduation Away From Cathedral
I just came across a radio feature by Paul Butler of Moody Radio. It was aired back in July on Prime Time America, but somehow I missed it. It lasts about seven minutes and includes snippets of Erwin Lutzer, K. Edward Copeland and yours truly. Instead of a post to start the new year, here’s a radio clip: Click here for Paul Butler’s production blog
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Prime Time America – Radio Interview
GetReligion readers likely are familiar with John Allen, the National Catholic Reporter ’s ace Vatican reporter. His latest column analyzes the biggest Vatican stories of the last 10 years . An aside: is anyone else annoyed at all of these “best of decade” lists coming a year prior to the end of the actual decade?
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What Catholic media bias?
In bombed-out, blockaded, wartime Britain, Winston Churchill is recorded as having insisted on two things: daffodils must make it from the Isles of Scilly, and women must have a sporting chance of acquiring a bit of slap.
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Lipstick and daffodils won’t save Britain now
Historian/Documentary Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Project-0900581 Application Process http://www.lds.org/emp/new/home.html Description The Joseph Smith Papers Project is engaged in producing a comprehensive edition of Joseph Smith documents featuring complete and accurate transcripts with both textual and contextual annotation. The scope of the project includes Joseph Smith’s original correspondence, revelations, journals, historical writings, sermons, legal papers, and other documents. Besides providing the most comprehensive record of early Latter-day Saint history they will also provide insight into the broader religious landscape of the early American republic
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Joseph Smith Papers Project — Job Announcement
The FLDS Church on Monday filed a petition with the Utah Supreme Court asking it to stay all proceedings and orders by the lower court in the long-running case seeking to reform the Untied Effort Plan Trust. The Trust holds communal property in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona that belonged to FLDS members.
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FLDS Church Asks Utah Supreme Court To Stay Proceedings In Trust Case