Thursday, December 31, 2020

Happy New Year of the Ox!

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New Year’s greetings in Japan are generally not given before January 1, so again this year I am posting this on the morning of December 31 h...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Grieving After-Christmas Massacres

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It was not long after that joyous first Christmas that things turned violent in Palestine. Although it didn’t happen as soon as depicted in ...
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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Pondering the Birth/Death of Jesus, the Slave

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During the Christmas season, we sing/hear many hymns/carols. In the New Testament, though, there are few hymns. Philippians 2:6~11 is most l...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

What about the Jefferson Bible?

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The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth was written/extracted by Thomas Jefferson and completed in 1820. Long known as “the Jefferson Bibl...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020

In Admiration of Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony

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The great musical genius Ludwig van Beethoven was born 250 years ago this month. Although I made a blog post about Beethoven in 2017, I am...
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Saturday, December 5, 2020

The Bruderhof: Celebrating a Century of Christian Discipleship

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In 1920, Eberhard and Emmy Arnold founded a Christian community in the Weimar Republic (Germany). That community came to be known as the Bru...
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Monday, November 30, 2020

Learning from the Indomitable Mother Jones

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For some reason, I have never known much about the indomitable woman known as Mother Jones. But noticing that she died 90 years ago, on Nove...
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