Before the age of the auto, carriages were all the rage in the East and South. And some companies made a fortune off of designing various kinds, often modelled on British carriages, including royal ones…. so not surprisingly, since rich Americans like to imitate British royalty… we find the Victoria— modelled on Queen Victoria’s own fancy carriage…. My personal favorite is the pie wagon! Some of these buggies were fancy enough to have brakes…. In the winter one wanted a... Read more
Belle Meade Mansion is a very interesting place to visit if you like late 19th century mansions and want to see how the other half lived. What set’s this house apart is that unlike nearby mansions where they grew crops like cotton, this was a house with a major horse farm, where people would come from miles away to appraise and buy horses. And of course one of the things you do when you are horse people is you show... Read more
You never know what you will find at a gift shop, in this case at Belle Meade Mansion in Nashville. For instance, how about a cello wine rack? Or some towel wisdom? Ah yes, Southern gift shops, where all things tacky go to die. Read more
Kevin Belmonte, A Journey Through the Life of William Wilberforce, (New Leaf Press, 2007), 122 pp. Kevin Belmonte has made a writing career out of doing biographies of famous Evangelical and Catholic figures of various eras including Dwight L. Moody, A.J. Gordon, G.K. Chesterton, John Bunyan, and two biographies of William Wilberforce. In this post I am dealing with the smaller Wilberforce book, that accompanied the release of the movie about John Newton. For a movie basically aimed... Read more
Certainly one of the dominant images and passages in the Bible when it comes to the issue of slavery is the storyline in Exodus about the enslaving of the Hebrews, and then their liberation through the efforts of Moses and others. And note that Moses was a reluctant liberator. It was God Almighty who sent Moses back to Egypt with the command to free his chosen people, and Moses was ordered, yes ordered, to confront Pharaoh (probably Ramses II) and... Read more
Over the course of some 40 years of teaching the Bible, I have become increasingly weary of the misreading of the slave passages in both the OT and the NT. This frustration was only exacerbated when the Museum of the Bible had a special exhibit a couple of years ago of ‘the Slaves Bible’, a Bible produced by slaveholders in the U.K. for their colonies where slavery was the very means by which rice and cotton plantations (and other sorts... Read more
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Out of the mouths of babes….. Read more
Perhaps you’ll remember the old pizza commercial— what do you want on your Tombstone? Well the ancients who had any resources at all wanted to honor their dead, not least because they believed their spirits or genii were still out there in the afterlife. The more elite persons or wealthy freedmen spared no expense in marble sarcophagi with all kinds of images on them. For instance, if you were a famous gladiator you might show what your trade was on... Read more
It is indeed very surprising that considering what a major tourist attraction Ephesus is, with cruise boat loads of people showing up again and again, that there is not a major archaeological museum on or near the site. There is a small one, but it is so small they’ve had to leave many of the artifacts outside, or in the courtyard. Fortunately now there is the new Izmir Museum to pick up some of the slack. Below you will see... Read more
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