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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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Book Review of “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal”
To those with some knowledge of the tension that existed within western Christendom in the late Middle Ages, the title of Brian Moynahan’s book tells the story in a nutshell. There is the protagonist, William Tyndale, the man of languages, whose love for God and His Word led him to translate the New Testament and…
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Turkey Dances To a New Tune of Rapprochement with Israel as Tensions Grow with Iran
[Analytic summary: Although the author uses the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the springboard for his article, its thrust is rather the predicament that Turkey is finding itself in by virtue of its apparent rapprochement with Israel and growing tension with Iran. This web of tri-lateral relations has become stickier by seeing…
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Cyril and Methodius: A Sketch History of Their Lives and the Development of the Slavonic Writing System
[Translator note: The brief history that follows is just that – brief. There is much that could be added by researching almost every paragraph. This article was written as a sketch to commemorate the “Apostles to the Slavs” (the term does not appear here), Cyril and Methodius, in the Russian Orthodox Church. In the translation,…
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On the Issue of Election—Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen
The same Spirit, Who directed the writers of both the Old and New Testaments (or Covenants), also instructs those who desire to understand the Scriptures. As such, here is an insight that I believe He has allowed me to glean concerning the above topic while reading Mark 10:17+, where Mark describes Jesus’s encounter with the…
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Turkey Continues Peace Initiative To End Russia-Ukraine Conflict, mid-March 2022
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on March 16, 2022, in Moscow to discuss finding a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Prior to their discussions, the two foreign ministers held a press conference, at which Lavrov admitted that the countries had some differences of opinion, yet added that…
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An Emergency Summit Meeting of NATO in the Offing, mid-March 2022
Yiannis Palaiologos, a journalist for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, reported on March 14, 2022, that an emergency NATO summit was being planned to coincide with the regular EU summit meeting that was scheduled to be held in Brussels the coming week. According to Palaiologos’ multi-sourced information, there would be an “overlap” whereby non-members of one…
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Kazakhstan Distances Itself from Russian Military Activities in Former Soviet Sphere of Influence
Russian independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta (NG), on Saturday, February 26, 2022, reported that around 200 persons had demonstrated that day in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s capital, against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which had begun two days earlier. Telling, the article noted, was that no one was arrested, although the demonstrators were said to be…
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