Currently pondering the significance of Jesus' body being taken by Joseph of Arim. versus the alternative: being tossed into Gehenna. # Weather.com finally gets it right: http://twitpic.com/8sg5d # Oooh. Checked our mail stash and we just received the July Voice of the Martyrs mag! (see @VOMC) # holding baby and researching intentional communities (IC), in [...]
And I wanted to share a story of exemplary freedom and independence. ‘The opinions for which men go to war,’ he said, ‘do not deserve those great tragedies of which they make us spectators. Let there be no longer any question among us of Zwinglians or Lutherans, for neither Zwingle nor Luther died for us, [...]
Not long after the Diet of Worms and the subsequent Edict in 1521, Augustinian monks Johann van den Esschen (Johannes Esch) and Hendrik Vos (Heinrich Voes), sympathetic to Luther and his teachings, were taken captive and branded for execution. On 1 July 1523, van den Esschen and Vos were burned at the stake. They are [...]
Christian humility is not an affirmation of abuse or low self-esteem. It is not a retreat from the world’s suffering and pain or a shrinking back from all expressions of power. To the contrary, Christian humility begins with a positive assertion: We are children of God, made in God’s images, created for Shalom. As God’s [...]
