Reasons To Believe : Lewis’s Mere Christianity Relevant Today
Reasons To Believe : How Young-Earth Creationism Became a Core Tenet of American Fundamentalism, Part 2
Reasons To Believe : How Young-Earth Creationism Became a Core Tenet of American Fundamentalism, Part 1
Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 10
I used to think that Christians were ignorant to believe the “stories” in the Bible. I was taught those stories as a child, but I grew up to “know” they weren’t true. Or did I?
My investigation into the claims of theists about the existence of God and Christians about the existence of God’s Son led me into a study of archaeology in 1971. I was especially interested in archaeological expeditions from the Middle East because much of the Old Testament was written in and about that area of the world. I was a bit surprised to discover that many archaeological findings pointed to the “possibility” that people written about in the Old Testament may have actually lived at the time the writers claimed.
But what about the claim that a small family left Canaan, entered Egypt, grew to great numbers, were forced into slavery, then were freed from slavery…
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Greece’s last Romaniote Jews remember a catastrophe – Jewish World Features Israel News | Haaretz
Greece’s last Romaniote Jews remember a catastrophe – Jewish World Features Israel News | Haaretz.
On March 25, 1944, the German Nazi occupiers rounded up the Jews of Ioannina. As snow fell, they were put into open trucks and taken to a nearby city. From there, a nine-day rail journey took them to Auschwitz.
The names of the town’s 1,832 Jews who were murdered are carved on marble tablets on the walls of the synagogue. Among the dead were more than 500 children under the age of 13.
Only 112 Ioannina Jews survived the death camps. Another 69 escaped the roundup, hiding with Christian families or fleeing into the mountains, where some fought with the Greek resistance. When they returned to Ioannina, many found their properties looted and homes occupied.
But it was not just the people who were wiped out. Centuries of tradition disappeared, too.
St. John One: One 