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I think you're giving our First Parents too much credit. As has been stated, we do not know the sort of relationship they had. Sure, Adam's first recorded words are a song extolling the newly-created Woman; but in Genesis 3, he stood by silently while the Serpent beguiled his wife, and when...

Monetary costs aside, who wouldn't want to be buried in a mausoleum styled after a sacred mountain populated by lush gardens and sumptuous statuary? Practically speaking, just a simple burial in a homemade casket; embalming, I could take or leave. But I am extremely opposed against cremation...

Reading this after The Goldfinch is going backwards somewhat. It's certainly enjoyable, but I'm not sure it's much more than just The Egypt Game for "grownups."

Yes, and that is why the term monotheism, as touching Christianity, seems so problematic. We don't deny the existence of One supreme and transcendent Lord God, but the scriptures are quite clear that 1. there are other gods (Exodus 12:12; 2 Kings 3; Psalm 29, 82, et al.) and 2. these gods are of...

Getting a little tired of this "As Christians, we need to defend religious freedom for everyone because if they go after the [insert group here], they could come after us next" foolishness. Imagine being a Christian in first-century Rome and saying, "It's diametrically-opposed to everything we...

It is colour analysis theory which sorts complexion and eye and hair colour according to how warm or cool they are, following the seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. This is used to determine the best colours for clothing and/or cosmetics. It's kind of fun. Here are some useful diagrams:

May the Lord have mercy on his soul. I was wondering after him only the other day. We really owe a lot to his popular reintroduction of divine council theology. He will be missed.

I'm thinking probably not? They aren't my favourite colours (And why wear colours that aren't my favourites? :D ) and I don't see typically those colours in men's too often. Maybe some accents here and there, but I don't think I could pull off anything more than that.

As a fellow Autumn, I can attest to these being some of the best colours. I usually wear dark forest and olive greens, hardwood and smoky browns, slate gray, and twilit blue.

It's so true. I remember one friend's mom was in the hospital or something and he was at a loss as to how to heat a frozen lasagna in the oven, ha, ha. I'm so thankful my mother taught me to cook and can from a (relatively) young age. Over the last couple weeks, I canned 13 quarts of ground...

I've seen a couple independent psychological thrillers with Toby Jones as lead and they've all been at least OK. This one is a nice homage to giallo films and is exactly as I'd remembered. Whereas a film like The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears is a neo-giallo, Berberian Sound Studio (as the...

Mom ran a yearly contest on her blog and at the time she passed, a couple participants hadn't received their prizes from the sponsors. Last week I got an e-mail from one such individual with still not recvd in the subject and body of the reply from some of her correspondence with Mom. I set to...

In years past I would have taken my Mom out to dinner, but instead Dad and I made a madcap dash into the metrop. for some small gifts for sister, niece, and nephew. It was a nice little outing but felt so incomplete without Mom with us.

Ah, I had in mind a twenty-first century particularly evangelical filmmaking (as I assumed the OP implied) rather than the sand and sandal epics you mentioned. Even Mr. Gibson's Passion of the Christ, while widely embraced by evangelicals, was most definitely not evangelical in production or...

My niece's difficult twelve years of life (and especially with two very recent deaths in the family) has left her very cynical and jaded. I don't know that she is walking with the Lord at this time and has made some rather sardonic comments about Christians, such as how they evade difficult...

Then you've got a film like A Hidden Life from esteemed director Terrence Malick. It was well acted, beautifully photographed, and explicitly Christian, but did very poorly in the box office. I remember some great anticipation before it was released but it doesn't seem like very many people...

LDS are not Christian and thus many of their teachings are opposed to Christianity. For one thing, they believe the natural trajectory of humanity is to become gods, just as they believe "God" God was once a man. There are a myriad of websites you can find showing the differences between...

If your conscience is bothering you, drop it. You don't need to stop playing it forever, but I would advise putting it down for a while and spend the time you'd be playing in other pursuits like prayer or reading scripture. Come back to it at a later point and see how it goes. Your conscience is...

Indeed. It's somewht amusing when someone (regardless of position, rank, or hierarchy) informs you how things are done round these parts. Someone new once tried to tell me how CF Singles worked after I popped in awhile back. Thanks for the information, but unless the constitution of rules or...

To say nothing of the deep familiarity prevailing theologies and apocalyptic and wisdom literature the apostles display in their writings that has caused many a secular critic to dismiss the idea they were written by "first century Galilean peasants." I agree a non-Christian would be...