JW Farquhar·3 hours agoI Am 77 Forever and I Am coming in SevenI Am 77 Forever and I Am coming in Seven I AM 77 Forever Seven Spirits of God (John 6:35–15:1) Cipher 48 1 WHO brings new life? (6:35) I am the bread of life 2. WHY can’t I see in darkness? (8:12) I am the light of the world 3. HOW do…Bible2 min readBible2 min read
Jonathan Polettiinʙᴇʟᴏᴠᴇʀ·3 days agoMember-onlyWhat cuts did Christianity make to the Bible?Let’s watch a religion edit its “sacred” text — The Bible was written by God, so Christianity claims. Oddly enough, the religion lost the manuscript. Is that the sort of thing you just throw away? The Bible ends up being known only by much later copies. For the New Testament, scholars found some 5800 manuscripts in the Greek language. None are identical. There are some 500,000 textual differences.Bible7 min readBible7 min read
Debbie WalkerinMiddle-Pause·1 day agoMember-onlyLet’s Reach For the Stars, Middle-PauseTo infinity and beyond! — Welcome, Sister-Friends! Remember last Friday’s newsletter when I talked about our stats? The views and time readers spent reading your articles? I’m happy to say we are still on an upward climb! Ya’ll are getting boosted, and it makes me wanna shout — Woo-Hoo! However, some of my recommendations were…Bible4 min readBible4 min read
Esther Spurrill-JonesinThe Word Artist·5 hours agoMember-onlyI Wrote 171 Poems Based on 150 Psalms in 2 Years and 6 MonthsWhat’s next? Shakespeare? — When I started this project in November 2021, I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into. I thought it would be fun to write a poem inspired by each Psalm in the Bible. It was fun. It was also challenging. As I neared the end, I found myself…Bible2 min readBible2 min read
Grant the Yeti·6 hours agoPsalm 123 — The Yeti VersionAscent Song 4: This is our most desperate hour — When trying to rewrite the first verse of this short psalm, the words “You’re my only hope” came to mind. This, of course, reminded me of the scene from Star Wars where Princess Leia records a short message to Obi-Wan Kenobi. So I made the first two verses kind of…Bible1 min readBible1 min read
Minneapolis Institute of Art·2 days agoDeath by ArtIt’s one of the most famous paintings in the world: Caravaggio’s Judith beheading Holofernes. Now we know how a woman would paint it today. — By Diane Richard “It’s the only decapitation painting I did.” Not many living artists can claim that — paintings of beheadings not being, perhaps, as popular as they once were. Then again, not many living artists have a painting in the same gallery as Judith and Holofernes (1599) by Baroque…Bible5 min readBible5 min read
TJ SeaneyinCourtyard Church·7 hours agoMember-onlyJohn 1:9–13Read here. The startling reality of verses nine through thirteen is that Jesus was in the world but unknown. How can this be? How can the God of the universe be present and our minds be absent? Verse eleven states, “He came to his own,” meaning the Hebrews and they…Bible2 min readBible2 min read
Jenny CalvertinKoinonia·23 hours agoThe Art of PersuasionWhat would persuade you? — Aristotle outlined a formula on how to master the art of persuasion. This was more than 2,000 years ago in his work Rehtoric. The world has caught on masterfully in this art of persuasion. Have you ever fallen for a product that was nothing like the advertisement? I once bought…Bible3 min readBible3 min read
Christopher P Jones·2 days agoMember-onlyUnravelling Symbolic Layers of Jealously and Betrayal in this PaintingFord Madox Brown’s The Coat of Many Colours — There are some paintings that last the test of being looked at again and again. They provide an experience for the eye, one that deepens with each visit. This image, with its rich and somewhat theatrical first impression, is one such painting. Not a square inch of the canvas is…Bible6 min readBible6 min read
Rich BittermaninKoinonia·1 day agoMember-onlyWhy Do Innocent People Suffer?Job 38:4–7 — Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you couldn’t help but question the fairness of it all? Job certainly did. He made some pretty bold accusations against God, painting Him as an enemy who relentlessly pursued him. In fact, Job laid the blame on God, claiming that He…Bible3 min readBible3 min read
