Historically more important in some ways than St. Paul outside the Walls, is the basilica of San Clemente, which is just a little ways up a via from the Roman coliseum of Titus. It is important because what we have is an 11th century church built on top of a 4th century Constantinian church, which in turn is built on top of a house, which is said to be the home of either a 2nd century Roman Senator named Clement... Read more
On our recent visit to Rome Ann and I visited two churches we had not seen before, and the most recently re-built of these is the beautiful St. Paul outside the (old city) Walls, which is well worth a visit. Actually, there had been other churches called St. Paul’s outside the Wall on this same spot, but even the 19th century one burned down, and the church you see now was constructed in the late 19th and into the 20th... Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7N79eWiqPU I was in seminary in the 70s when the first episode of Star Wars came out…. and it was truly something remarkable. Fresh, fun, with interesting and odd characters and snarky dialogue. This ninth and final episode of the Star Wars has only been 45 years in coming. Talk about a long running story…..So what did I think of this last installment. Well, I enjoyed that J.J. Abrams tried to revisit some of the fun elements and humor of... Read more
One of the things that has really irritated me about various ‘Progressive’ Christian blogs on this website is the false assumption that Evangelicals in general are in lock step with our immoral President, or simply turn a blind eye to his sins which are many. Well, Mark Galli, the senior editor at Christianity Today, has now made perfectly clear that Evangelicalism, like the rest of the country is quite divided on the issue of Trump and whether he should be... Read more
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John Grisham has now written some 33 novels. To say he is prolific is to say too little. This novel however bears more kinship with his non-fiction work entitled The Innocent Man a story about a man wrongfully condemned for a heinous crime he did not commit, and the work of the Innocence Project and other organizations to overturn such a mistaken judgment. This novel falls into the same sort of gestalt and sordid tale, and certainly does not inspire... Read more
Fred Rogers tells the story of a little girl who was drawing a picture in a class at school. Her teacher came and asked her— ‘What is that a picture of?’ The girl confidently replied— ‘It’s a picture of God.’ The teacher, somewhat startled, said ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’ The little girl retorted— “Well they will now!’ Jesus said, ‘unless you turn and become as a child, you shall not enter the Kingdom of God’. In... Read more
This is from the new album with orchestra which comes out in late February. Accept this song as an early Christmas gift. Read more
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