You can’t make this stuff up. The owners of the replica ark in Williamstown Ky. are suing their insurers. Why you may ask? Because of water damage caused by rain!! Here’s the link to the story…. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/noahs-ark-replica-park-sues-for-rain-damage/index.html Never mind that Christians are not supposed to go to court to solve matters like this (see 1 Cor. 5-6), but this whole thing leads one to ask— Why didn’t you follow the original instructions to Noah about making sure the ark was... Read more
Now that’s music, not mere rhythmic talking! Read more
With apologies for the S word at the end. But….. he’s right about all this. BW3 Read more
Behold the Mt. Sinai Monastery Library, which holds 4,500 partial or whole ancient manuscripts including a copy of Codex Sinaiticus and an ancient Syriac translation of the Gospels. (These pictures used under the fair use law. I was unable to take my own pictures while I was there). Finally, finally through the auspices of EMEL (the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library) folks, and the library at UCLA, the vast holdings of the Sinai monastery are being digitized. The project could take... Read more
C.J. Sansom is an an accomplished historical novelist, and his latest volume has been nominated for the Sir Walter Scott Prize. It might be better dubbed ‘Tomeland’ as it is a whopping 854 pages long. No quick Ellis Peters or Paulm Doherty medieval read this volume! The volume came out in the States in January of this year, and I have been reading and reading it for weeks. It recounts the events of 1549 in England, specifically the abolition of... Read more
Here’s a helpful article on recent research on sarcophagus paintings of persons who were mummified between about A.D. 100 and 250. See what you think. BW3 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-mummy-portraits/index.html Read more
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