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Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering

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

Parallels in the Early Church and Contemporary Society

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

Church's Perspective on War

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 ...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Suffering in Job and in the Death Camps

who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...

The Origin of Evil

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

Theodicy in Christianity and Buddhism

tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...

The Principles of Spiritual Leadership

long prayer of confession.6 It may be because of Ezras knowledge and profound faith that God called him to serve in a different wa...

CHRISTIANITY, SCIENCE AND BUSINESS

finance, for example, God and business are mutually exclusive. How could God be working through business, people might ask. Take a...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

God, Man, and Morality in "Frankenstein"

as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...

Biblical Basis for Worship

Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...

Questioning the Unquestionable Science and Our Belief in God

Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...

When a Child is Diagnosed with Autism

or anything else they can think of to explain away the event. After the denial is no longer possible, anger sets in. This stage mi...

Comparing Christianity and Buddhism

of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...

Liberal Christianity

only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...

3 Film Reviews/Psychosocial Issues of Disability

in his dysfunctional body and she reads him constantly, also hiring round-the-clock nurses and other readers (Changnon, 1995). W...

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Biblical Adam and the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In 7 pages these two creations are compared in terms of the intentions of their creators and the reactions they inspired with God ...

The Writings of Three Mystics

This 15 page paper discusses the way in which three religious writers, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Martin Buber and Teresa of Avila...

The System of Trokosi

by a spokesman for the fetish priests, Togbe Atsu Eklo of the Adzimashi shrine, which appealed to the gods and their ancestors to ...

Morality As Seen by Austustinians and Thomists

Thomists and Augustinians are concerned primarily with issues of morality. This paper examines the two theologies and how they vie...

Free Will, Creation, and God

In five pages questions regarding free will, evil, sin, and creation in Catholic theology, and God in the Christian perspective ar...

The God Kings' Age in Ancient Egyptian Civilization

A paper consisting of seven pages considers the period from 3500 until 1500 BC in ancient Egyptian civilization referred to as the...

Borowski and Wiesel/Surviving Auschwitz

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

Instruction of the Deaf, A Film Analysis

to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...

Teaching Children the Great Commission

faith development. Stage 2 is related to children from three/four to seven/eight when they experience intuitive-projective faith. ...

Gilgamesh and Sumerian Religion

on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...