Dynasties and All That
…and Church of the East Christian shrines. Later Tang emperors turned against these foreign religions, including Buddhism, which had come in from the west during the later Han; Buddhism survived…
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Our China Journey, Part III – Xi’an and Yan’an
…ones as recruited St Augustine for a while] and Church of the East Christian [sometimes called by us Nestorians, and accused of believing that Christ had two personalities instead of…
Our China Journey, Part I – Singapore and Guangzhou
…on the horizon. But we will get to China soon enough. We did see a variety of things in Singapore; we saw a church, a mosque, and two Buddhist temples,…
Our Adventure in Ethiopia
…the northern and central sections of the country, which are the regions dominated by the ancient Orthodox Church. For those who are interested, it is a non-Chalcedonian church, sister to…
Surveying Marriage vs. Cohabitation: Not a Binary Choice Any More
…attend church except to use the churches for weddings and funerals, so the actual participating membership in these ‘liberal’ religions is fairly low compared to ‘conservative’ religions; Cohabitation without any…
LARCS, Abstinence, and Other Matters of Education
…woman is ready to have another child. I am not sure whether the Roman Catholic Church will bar from the Eucharist women it knows to be so equipped. I am…
The Upper Middle Class Versus the 1%?
…a Saul Alinsky breed led the Latino community, which was not upper middle class, to oppose it. [As to why the church and Christian institutions are considered less desirable neighbors…
The Strange American Inversion of the Liturgical Year
…Ye Faithful” are in the Christmas section. In church, it is not until the afternoon of December 24 that the songs in the Christmas section are sung! And they can…
Hasn’t it Always Been Babylon?
…that the USA was a ‘covenant nation.’ I don’t think it is. The covenant nation of Israel has been succeeded by the international, multiethnic, multicultural Church, as St Paul makes…
Very Bad Taste Not A Reason To Forbid Anything: A Thought For 9/11, Nine Years Later
…mainline churches filed briefs in support. Why would they do this? Not because they favored segregation, surely; but if the IRS couId take away the tax status of Bob Jones…