“The casting of lots in ancient Israel”

“The casting of lots in ancient Israel”

 

Rubens Matthias
“St. Matthias,” by Peter Paul Rubens (ca. 1611)
Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

 

It’s likely that one or more new apostles will be announced this weekend (probably today) at the October general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 

A look at one ancient method used to fill an apostolic vacancy seemed appropriate, in that light, for this weekend’s Hamblin/Peterson column in the Deseret News:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865638130/The-casting-of-lots-in-ancient-Israel.html

 

Posted from New York City

 

 


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