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RESURRECTION EASTER
How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision Dominic Crossan |
In Resurrecting Easter, bestselling author John Dominic Crossan and his wife, Sarah, uncover a very different vision of the Resurrection story from the one well-known in Western Christian tradition.
Drawing on photographs taken during annual travels across Eastern Christianity sites, the Crossans note that the standard image for the Resurrection in Eastern Christianity is universal as Christ raises Adam-and-Eve that is, all of humanity, with him. In Western Christianity, however, Christ's Resurrection is not universal, but individual, solitary, alone.
This alternative understanding of Easter introduces readers to a universal, inclusive, community-based vision that offers renewed hope
Drawing on photographs taken during annual travels across Eastern Christianity sites, the Crossans note that the standard image for the Resurrection in Eastern Christianity is universal as Christ raises Adam-and-Eve that is, all of humanity, with him. In Western Christianity, however, Christ's Resurrection is not universal, but individual, solitary, alone.
This alternative understanding of Easter introduces readers to a universal, inclusive, community-based vision that offers renewed hope
GUESS WHAT? HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT—NOT EVEN ONCE! THERE’S MORE TO THE STORY…
APOSTLE PAUL
DAVID & JONATHAN
RUTH & NAOMI
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Durning medieval times, Greek words were retranslated to reflect the mores of their world - and we have been stuck with them ever since.
A great deal of pain has been caused by ignorance of the original Greek writing and meaning in the New Testament writings, especially from the Apostle Paul. To be blunt, the translation that you find in your modern bible are wrong. Go on a journey with Dr. White into the meanings of the original Greek words, and the culture in the first century Roman world in which Paul lived. Hint: Paul never intended to mention homosexuality as we know it. He had something entirely different in mind.
DID DAVID & JONATHAN and RUTH & NAOMI HAVE HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIRS?
What does the Bible say about homosexuality? You may have it wrong! L. Michael White |
In this two-part interview, Dr. Michael White explores references to homosexuality in the Old and New Testament. A great deal of pain has been caused by ignorance of the original Greek writing and meaning in the Jewish Septuagint (Old Testament), and the New Testament writings, especially from the Apostle Paul.
"The category 'homosexuality' is absent from the Bible and, generally, unknown in antiquity [read about king David and Jonathan, and Ruth and Naomi] for enlightenment. It is a modern construction, and depends upon an understanding of gender that arises only in modern times. Ancient understanding of sex and well as of gender are quite varied, and all different in some fundamental ways from our own. Therefore, to simply pick out those (rather rare) places where the Bible mentions or alludes to sexual acts and to assume that they 'mean' the same things that they would mean in our culture will inevitably lead to confusion." - White, quoting Wayne Meeks
"The category 'homosexuality' is absent from the Bible and, generally, unknown in antiquity [read about king David and Jonathan, and Ruth and Naomi] for enlightenment. It is a modern construction, and depends upon an understanding of gender that arises only in modern times. Ancient understanding of sex and well as of gender are quite varied, and all different in some fundamental ways from our own. Therefore, to simply pick out those (rather rare) places where the Bible mentions or alludes to sexual acts and to assume that they 'mean' the same things that they would mean in our culture will inevitably lead to confusion." - White, quoting Wayne Meeks
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GOD AND THE AFTERLIFE
The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience Jeffrey Long, M.D.
A two-part interview with Dr. Jeffrey Long PLUS Bonus Segment (with the doctor's own personal beliefs about heaven after concluding the study). Based on the largest near-death experience study in history, involving 4,000 people from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions, including nonbelievers, God and the Afterlife presents startling evidence that a Supreme Being exists—and there is amazing consistency about what he is like.
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In his bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife, Dr. Jeffrey Long showed us that there is a strong scientific case for life after death. Now, he goes further, revealing evidence that God is real. At the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, Dr. Long studied the stories of thousands of people who have journeyed to the afterlife. Though there are a wide variety of differences in how people experience NDEs—some see a bright light, others go through a tunnel, still others experience a review of their life—he discovered that many of the accounts shared a remarkably similar description of God; a Supreme Being who radiated love and grace.
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JESUS BEFORE THE GOSPELS
How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior Bart Ehrman
Throughout much of human history, our most important stories were passed down orally—including the stories about Jesus before they became written down in the Gospels. In this fascinating and deeply researched work, leading Bible scholar Bart Ehrman investigates the role oral history has played in the New Testament—how the telling of these stories not only spread Jesus’ message but helped shape it.
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A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman draws on a range of disciplines, including psychology and anthropology, to examine the role of memory in the creation of the Gospels. Explaining how oral tradition evolves based on the latest scientific research, he demonstrates how the act of telling and retelling impacts the story, the storyteller, and the listener—crucial insights that challenge our typical historical understanding of the silent period between when Jesus lived and died and when his stories began to be written down.
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SHORT STORIES BY JESUS
Amy-Jill Levine
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern readers.
In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes the “problems with parables,” taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables’ connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later. |
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GROUNDED
Finding God in the World, A Spiritual Revolution Diana Butler Bass
The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Diana Butler Bass follows up her acclaimed book Christianity After Religion by arguing that what appears to be a decline actually signals a major transformation in how people understand and experience God. The distant God of conventional religion has given way to a more intimate sense of the sacred that is with us in the world. This shift is at the heart of a spiritual revolution that surrounds us – and that is challenging not only religious institutions but political and social ones as well.
Grounded observes and reports a radical change in the way many people understand God and how they practice faith. In doing so, Bass invites readers to join this emerging spiritual revolution, find a revitalized expression of faith, and change the world. |
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CHRONICLES OF TAO
The Secret Life of a Taoist Master Deng Ming-Dao
For the first time in one volume—an extraordinary spiritual odyssey of the making of the Taoist master Kwan Saihung. Born into a wealthy family in a remote province of China, Kwan defies his parents' wishes and enters into the rigorous and mysterious discipline of Taoist practice. Renamed "Little Butterfly" by his Taoist masters, he survives the upheaval of the Japanese occupation, and the later the Chinese Revolution, all the while becoming adept in the Taoist arts. Eventually his inner and outer journey lead him to America, where he becomes a Golden Gloves boxer and martial arts instructor.
Note: For my personal experience with the author's master, Kwan Saihung, see my blog at http://www.crossingtheline.me/rons-blog. |
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HOW TO READ THE BIBLE AND STILL BE A CHRISTIAN
John Dominic Crossan
Many portions of the New Testament, introduce a compassionate Jesus who turns the other cheek, loves his enemies, and shows grace to all. But the Jesus we find in Revelation and some portions of the Gospels leads an army of angels bent on earthly destruction. Which is the true revelation of the Messiah—and how can both be in the same Bible?
How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian explores this question and offers guidance for the faithful conflicted over which version of the Lord to worship. John Dominic Crossan reconciles these contrasting views, revealing how different writers of the books of the Bible not only possessed different visions of God but also different purposes for writing. Often these books are explicitly competing against another, opposing vision of God from the Bible itself. |
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