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• Contra Mundum: The Flat-Earth Myth

  
  MandM — Authority: 128
  A while back I made a passing comment on my blog criticising an advertisement which claimed that prior to Columbus the earth taught the world was flat. In response I received the following email from a high-school student in the US, I’ve been studying Christopher Columbus in my history class and my history books ...
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• C.S. Lewis on Christmas

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 135
  Clive Staples Lewis was born November 29, 1898. On Christmas Day 1931, C.S. Lewis joined the Anglican Church and took communion. “The White Witch? Who is she? “Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It’s she that makes it always winter and never Christmas; think of that!” “How awful!” ...
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• The Christian Fish Symbol

  
  BibleX — Authority: 432
  See this short but interesting article at ChristianHistory.net on the ubiquitous Christian fish symbol.
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• Of note: Frontier Orthodoxy

  
  Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist — Authority: 410
  Fr. Oliver Herbel has a new column called Frontier Orthodoxy which looks like it has the potential to be of great interest. There are two posts up now, and my understanding is that he intends it to be a bi-monthly column. That Fr. Oliver reveals in his introductory essay that he is a fencer already means that this ...
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• Reuter Edition of Ursinus Online!

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 572
  There is an amazing electronic text of Ursinus’ Opera online. Thanks to Sebastian Heck for pointing us to this amazing resource.Posted in Academic Stuff, Christian History, Historical Theology, Recovering the Reformed Confession Tagged: reformed orthodoxy, Zacharias Ursinus
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• Advanced Reading Survey: The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 135
  I’ve decided that on Mondays I’m going to revisit the books I read for a course in college called Advanced Reading Survey, taught by the eminent scholar and lovable professor, Dr. Huff . I’m not going to re-read all the books and poems I read for that course, probably more than fifty, but I am going to post to ...
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• Frontier Orthodoxy

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 516
  The folks over at the always-interesting Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas are introducing a new column called Frontier Orthodoxy by Fr. Oliver Herbel. Fr. Herbel provides an introduction to his work, and some biographical detail, and what surely is the Quote of the Week in the Orthodox Christian ...
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• Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Random Musings from a Doctor's Chair — Authority: 130
  The latest from Thinking Faith ... ‘We are the people’ As we prepare to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall , German Jesuit Bernd Hagenkord recalls his memories of November 1989 and describes the momentous events that led to the reunification of Germany . To what extent did the ...
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• Billy Grahams America

  
  Random Musings from a Doctor's Chair — Authority: 130
  From ChristianHistory.net Billy Grahams America Southern sensibilities, media savvy, denominational openness, and an expanding social vision helped turn a country boy evangelist into a cultural icon. By Grant Wacker In slightly more than two decades—roughly from 1949 to 1971—Billy Graham ...
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• Martin Luther and his theses

  
  Random Musings from a Doctor's Chair — Authority: 130
  Luther Posts the 95 Theses An obscure monk invited debate on a pressing church issue—and touched off a history-shattering reform movement . By Dr. Eric W. Gritsch Sometime during October 31 , 1517, the day before the Feast of All Saints, the 33-year-old Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the ...
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• Daynes History of Marriage (Part 2)

  
  Mormon Heretic — Authority: 107
  I have really been enjoying the book More Wives than One by Kathryn Daynes, an associate professor of history at BYU.   In my previous post on the book, I mentioned that marriage wasn’t as regulated as it is today.  There were no marriage licenses, blood tests, or even ceremonies required.  If a couple said ...
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• The Lost History of Christianity

  
  Random Musings from a Doctor's Chair — Authority: 130
  Seaver College W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Phillip Jenkins, lecturing on "The Lost History of Christianity". Jenkins is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. His specialty is Christianity in the southern hemisphere, and he will explore the myths ...
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• Sermon: I Believe in the Church

  
  Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor — Authority: 123
  Here’s the sermon I’m preaching tomorrow as I continue the 13-week series on The Apostles’ Creed.  Tomorrow we come to the phrase, “I Believe in the Church.”  I hope your Sunday is a great one! I Believe In The Church 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ...
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