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This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

it instructs people to accept Gods sovereignty and to submit to Gods will (Poonawala 2006). If God created everything, then, it fo...

natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...

hundred years ago the God that Americans envisioned is highly different than the God envisioned today. Today we can see God take o...

that man is separated from God: "God is on one side and all the people on the other side" (1 Timothy 2:5a). It is mans sin that se...

death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

its right-wing allies, "he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but is our son-of-a-bitch" (Schmitz 4). Schmitz traces the origin of this ch...

"Christians" would gather before dawn and recite a "hymn" to Christ, as if "to a god" (Shelley 22). These hymns, which can be date...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

from grace. I threatend to observe the strict decree Of my dear God with...