Today begins the season of Advent, a four week celebration of the first coming of the Messiah. Christ-followers across the world celebrate with one eye on the past arrival of Jesus and the other on his second coming. In a way it is the Christian version of the Jewish holiday Sukkot, or Feast of Tabernacles, which depicts the time when God will dwell with Men once more. These are days of anticipation.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Pakistani Asia Bibi whose life is in eminent danger is denied religious refuge status by the United Kingdom, Big Bang star Mayim Bialik criticizes the Bible's parenting advice, and Black Panther star Letitia Write reveals how her Christian Faith shapes her acting career.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Former LGBTQ members plan march to tell how Jesus changed them, Pastor who spent two years imprisoned in Turkey shares the Bible verse that got him through, 13 Christians were beaten then released in the Sudan, and the Museum of the Bible removes a forgery from exhibit.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Britain wants to add atheism to their religions class, an atheist in Australia turns to Jesus and the rumors may be true after all that China wants to edit the Bible to make it conform to their Communist ideology.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Christians from Finland are arrested for evangelizing Muslims in Malaysia, a Muslim rapist is acquitted by the French court due to differing "cultural norms", The Freedom From Religion Foundation mock the birth of Jesus, and a small stone teaches Bible scholars a big lesson.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Sarah Silverman blasphemes Jesus in latest skit, Michael Buble thanks God for his son's remission of cancer, a woman calls the cops against her parents who asked her to church, and two US states pass pro-life Constitutional amendments to outlaw abortion.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Quebec tries to tell government employees to to stop wearing religious symbols to work, Bring Your Bible to School day happened, the Sudan releases Bibles wrongfully held in port Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are turning toward God, and many Christians have really bad theology.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: Chinese Christians strike back against persecution, The Wall Street Journal calls for humanity to move past cruel and oppressive concepts like hell as taught in the Bible, and a teenager survives 7 weeks at sea by reading his Bible and praying.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Colorado University in Colorado Springs discriminates against Christian campus group Ratio Christi, a male Australian senator surprisingly identifies as a woman for the most surprising of reasons, and a pastor/humanitarian serving the less fortunate receives a 7 year prison sentence.
Don't blush. For over two thousand years followers of God have tried to make the Song of Songs about anything but what it is really about. It has been seen as an allegory of God's love for Israel, an allegory of philosophy, an allegory of Christ's love for the church, and a myriad of other allegories. The truth is, it's no allegory. This is a love poem. A poem written to honor God's gift of romance and sexual love in the context of a marital relationship. It is sometimes provocative, it is sometimes explicit and it is always beautiful. So don't blush.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. A California city tries to tax a local church in violation of state and federal laws and the Church of Latter-Day Saints is dropping the use of the word "Mormon" in hopes of gaining more religious credibility.
When we started this series on the names of God, I started with our previous three-day series, expanding on those paragraphs and turning them into full page studies. We're close to finishing the previous list, and as I've been researching I've found that my organization has something to be desired. For instance, I've learned that there are three primary names of God, 43 compound names using YHWH and 24 others based on El/Elohim. It's too late to correct the site, but we will do a better job when we publish the names in a PDF book we'll make available to our dedicated readers.
