By Jason Fowler on 04/23/2011
It is hard for me during high profile holy days like Easter/Passover to break out of the ritual and experience GOD afresh…So in my efforts to reflect with fresh light on the Gospel story of Jesus’ final days that lead up to His crucifixion- I decided to reframe the story from the view of an imagined outsider…
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By Bill Guerrant on 08/27/2010
In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”
Posted in Church & World History, Features, Justice | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, Christians, Church History, embodying our faith, history, Jesus followers, Julian the Apostate, Justice, love, margins of empire, mercy, mission, Poverty, Roman empire |
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