by Wendy Widder | Mar 30, 2015 | Easter
“Hosanna!” So shouted the celebrants on the first Palm Sunday, and so sang we in church this morning, two thousand years later (we’re not big shouters at my little Baptist church). We were, of course, getting Holy Week started the way Christians typically do:...
by Wendy Widder | Mar 2, 2015 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
Pictures this past week of ISIS taking sledge hammers and power tools to ancient artifacts like the magnificent winged-lion here made my heart hurt. Then this weekend I finally got around to reading a sobering article about ISIS ideology, a system rooted in the belief...
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