Today I Found Out has an article which demonstrates the idea of a round earth was commonly held through history and that the origin of the popularly held notion that people believed in a flat earth was concocted in part to make the church look bad and in other part through fanciful historical biography. Contrary …
Michael Kruger’s second post in his series Ten Basic Facts about the NT Canon that Every Christian Should Memorize proceeds from the first, which was that the New Testament documents are the earliest Christian writings which we possess, by pointing out that the other apocryphal documents which claim (or which have others claim on their …
Thanks to Craig Schwarze for pointing this out, and to Tim Challies for highlighting it. This Sunday is the 225th anniversary of the first Christian service in Australian, led by the Reverend Richard Johnson. A lot of churches will probably be talking about this on Sunday, so I thought I would put up the facts …
Celebrated on January 18, the birthday of Peter Mark Roget, author of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (better known as Roget’s Thesaurus), Thesaurus Day is a celebration of words, their meanings, and the time and care taken to craft writing which avoids monotonous repetition. Thesaurus.com provides us with the following definition for Thesaurus: …
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