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Book Review: William Tyndale
by J. F. Mozley This is the last of a trilogy of biographies I have read on William Tyndale. There is afourth biography, written by Robert Demaus in 1886, which served as one of themain sources of the present volume, written by Mozley in 1934. I decided toread Mozley’s biography of Tyndale because just as…
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Turkish Citizens Seeking Refugee Status in Europe Spiked in Aftermath of July 15, 2016, Coup Attempt against Turkish President Erdoğan
While looking into the question concerning how many citizens of Turkey had received refugee status in EU countries over the 14-year span of 2008-2021, the publication Euronews on June 10, 2022, revealed that those numbers rose sharply after the attempted coup on the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 15, 2016. The investigative report,…
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An Examination of Paul’s Teaching on the LORD’s Supper in I Corinthians 11:17-34
It occurred to me that over the years of worshipping in various denominations, I have been exposed to the LORD’s Supper being celebrated to differing degrees of significance. But for the most part, as I remember, there were few, if any, strictures placed on those taking Communion, perhaps the most common restriction being, to be…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Meets with Cyclists in Celebration of World Bicycle Day
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with cyclists on June 3 at The Grand National Assembly of Turkey in celebration of World Bicycle Day. [Note: The caption under the banner headline announcing 3 June World Bicycle Day in red letters, it reads “Choose a bicycle for a liveable world!”]
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Theoretical Reconstruction of the Derivation of the Conceptual Word ‘Church’
This fascinating study on the derivation of the word ‘church’ and its adoption into most translations of the Bible as the proper translation for the Greek εκκλησια (transliterated as ekklesia, Greek-based; or ecclesia, Latin-based) was spurred by a discussion in a book my wife and I read recently. The author claimed that in Hebrew, the…
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Book Review: William Tyndale – A Biography
Whether in his bibliography or somewhere in the text of his biography of Tyndale, “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal,” Brian Moynahan refers to David Daniell’s tome, which carries the eponym of the title of this book review. Daniell, in addition…
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Russian Thinktank Claims Ukraine Takeover First Move To Reintegrate Former USSR, Realign Geopolitical Spheres of Influence, late-March 2022
Although it was my endeavor to summarize as succinctly as possible, because of the length of the original piece, this post is somewhat lengthy. Hopefully, the length will not overwhelm the reader, nor the information, underwhelm! In my opinion, this article offers an opportunity to peer “behind the veil” and view, virtually, the thought processes…
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Turkish President Erdoğan Issues Paschal Greeting, mid-April 2022
I greet our Christian countrymen on the Paschal Holiday. Our country, where everyone is able to experience their own faith, culture, and tradition freely, and our nation, in which brotherhood and solidarity are interlocked one to the other with their feelings, continues its incomparable example for the whole world. From the past up to today,…
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September 11th National Memorial Trail
My wife and I visited the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Flight 93 memorial in September 2021. It had been a long time coming, but we finally made the trip, and after having done so, I’m of the opinion that it is one that everyone should make. Although our trip was almost exactly 20 years after that horrible…
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Book Review: The Bible in Translation – Ancient and English Versions by Bruce Metzger
Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007) was for many years a professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. According to the brief biographical sketch on the back cover of the volume under review, he was an expert in ancient biblical manuscripts and as such was a member of three major Bible translation projects…
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