#Romans

Maybe I need to tweet summaries of what I *actually* learned from the Bible.Example.What I actually learned from Job:Making HOURS of unhelpful commentary when someone is suffering but doing nothing
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A few personal stories/thoughts regarding colonialism:I've never hidden my Kurdish origins and have always been proud of them, yet at the same time, there have been occasions where younger me
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Quarantine In Latin means 40The flood lasted 40 days40 years Moses fled Egypt40 days Moses stayed on Mount Sinai to receive the CommandmentsExodus lasted 40 yearsJesus fasted for 40 daysLent
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Dionysos class! The prof has a new puppy, and we are all cooing over him enormously. --also an elderly adoptive dog, and a new grandchild, so honestly that's a pretty
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Thought vis-a-vis why the police can't be reformed, a thread.You ever wonder why roads are a certain width?Like, there has to be a reason. Things never just happen, but sometimes
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okay so I actually find your take of the story interesting but I also find it very flawed since you could literally flip it 1. You say Eldians are descended
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In opposition to one of the few mutuals whose opinion I care about, I shall now be doing a hot takes challenge, but exclusively in the form of factional beef,
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What is the exact problem with this thread? The ancient religions, globally, whether the Greeks or Romans or Egyptians or Indians never divorced sensuality from divinity. They never criminalised sexuality
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What happens when Anglophone ideologues create a new ethnic label that can't be pronounced in the language of the culture it purports to represent?https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-hear
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Ask a Bible TeacherQ&AIn these last days I'vebeen trying to liveaccording to God's will,and I've been blessedbecause of it.I'm struggling with onething though, and that'sdependence on pot. I smoke almost
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The claim that #Jerusalem is Islam’s third-holiest city is based on a lie made-up by Muhammad.Let me explain ... Have you ever wondered why Muslims claim that Jerusalem is Islam’s
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A thread of music video themes I would love to see for NM5 @NICKIMINAJ Story of Jesus but with Nicki as Jesus and the 10 disciples as alter egos Recreating
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A House Through Time is truly brilliant, and all these docs are quality, but yet again noms biased towards modern history. It’s a real problem - if the industry keeps
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#OTD 28 May 1588, the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon to invade EnglandKing Philip II of Spain has sent a Latin verse to Queen Elizabeth I demanding the return of
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I have been arguing that in order to recover a robust vision of philosophy as a way of life, we must re-join those aspects of philosophical living captured by the
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One of the things I like to see while out walking: signs of hedges having been laid (also called pleaching) many years ago: Hedge laying doesn't mean hedge *planting*. It's
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