When America declared independence from Great Britain, the Founding Fathers made it clear that they never wanted any American citizen to experience the tyranny that they felt again. One way they planned to do this was the separation of church and state. Under this theory, the government would not support any one religion, which would promote religious freedom in the...
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The Bible is a fundamental text for many who seek to understand the world around them. At its core is a biblical worldview that shapes how we understand ourselves, others, and the world we live in. One of the most important sections of the Bible for understanding this worldview is Romans 1-8. But what is the intersection of these two...
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Pope Francis was the first Pope from the Americas, being born in Argentina. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born to Italian immigrants, graduated from a technical school, and left as a chemical technician. However soon after he graduated, he then began his training at the Diocesan Seminary of Villa Devoto. In 1958, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Serving...
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Truthfulness is an important virtue in everybody's life. When this aspect of a person's life is thrown away, then they will not make it far. No one will trust them, and it will make it much harder for them to get jobs and other things in life. Not only is it important for day-to-day life, but it is also talked...
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The importance of service to others is a present theme in the Bible. Numerous scientific studies have gone on to prove this importance. An ideology shared by many reports is that serving others leads to an improvement in the mental health and well-being of ourselves. Robert Barnett writes for the Huff Post about the body’s reaction to service: “But you...
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The word ‘atonement’ in Christian theology is described to be what was and still is attained by the death of Jesus. Another word used in modern Christianity is ‘reconciliation’, specifically regarding the reconciliation of men and women, through the death of Jesus, to God. The premise of Christianity suggests that atonement is necessary, although God’s creation at its core was...
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From Superman to Peter pan, from Marvel to Disney, from comic books to movies… we live in a modern, evolving world, where heroes are imagined as having incredible powers, amazing tales and the ability to incinerate danger. However, the idea of a ‘true hero’ stems much deeper than superficial, fictional characters. Demonstrating qualities such as determination, compassion, honesty, sacrifice and...
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Every religion around the world preaches the concept of being peaceful and shares the ultimate goal of obtaining peace worldwide. However, in order to achieve a sense outer peace, inner peace must first be attained. Islam and Christianity both place an emphasis on the importance of obtaining peace internally and externally. In the Qur’an and Bible, the message of peace...
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Peace has two concepts: world peace (the lack of war and absence of conflict), and inner peace (the lack of conflict with oneself and one’s community). To Christians both of these aspects of peace are important. They draw from the teachings of the Bible and interpretations of it by the Church to respond to the call of their sacred text...
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Creation myths are used to explain ideas about religion, social structure, cultural values, and beliefs, as well as events in the natural world. In ancient cultures, they are often an accumulation of ideas about the world that people were seeing and experiencing. These myths can have similar themes and influences over each other, especially with regard to biblical and Near...
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Religious experience can generally be explained or characterized as an experience that someone has had, which they may feel has some religious importance to them. That reality of the experience will vary depending on the religious tradition that the experience is a part of. Religious experience is not the same thing as Mystical experience, even though they are quite close,...
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The Catholic Church has been corrupted since it has been established, but more recently has the secrets of the church surfaced. They have been faced with sexual assault allegations, corrupted leaders and hierarchy, and many other disturbing things that should not go on inside a church. The authority inside the church do not help the reputation of it either. They...
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The Catholic understanding of freedom bestows a judicious response to an innumerable number of social pressures which contradict it. From a Catholic perspective, all people are vested with a free will, giving them the ability to choose good and discard bad. If people use this freedom correctly and choose good, they will ultimately achieve long-term happiness, one of the most...
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The Catholic Church is a well-known and well-respected part of modern society. Every baptized person has an ongoing responsibility to follow Jesus's way of life in their thoughts, words and actions. Jesus is known for forgiving and redeeming Catholics who have sinned. The Bible also contains some things that do not fit in with modern society. Modern Christians feel pressured...
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Episcopal Bishop Mark Dyer has observed that the only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty-first-century Christians is to realize that the church feels compelled to have a massive shakeup about every five hundred years. He describes this shakeup as a ‘rummage sale’. Five hundred years back from our 21st century places us in the 16th...
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Environmental Ethics implies the control in Philosophy that reviews the ethical relationship of individuals to, and furthermore the worth and good status of, nature and its non-human substance. Environmental Ethics is an issue that covers 4 primary elements, deforestation, global warming, pollution, etc. Deforestation is an issue that initially turned into a serious concern in the 1950s, it is an...
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In the play, Woza Albert! by Percy Miwa, Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon, the role of Christianity and the hope of redemption (in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ - the subject of the ‘what if’ premise of the play), provides a perspective from which to view the realities of Apartheid South Africa; and criticizes the “hypocrisy of the Apartheid...
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The poetry of T. S. Eliot is memorable in nature as he is able to resonate with both his immediate context, and future contexts by formulating a detailed illustration of human life, presenting one’s modern-day turmoils within an atmosphere fueled by anxieties yet is futile. This modern era saw an age of heightened anxiety and the collapse of traditionalism. With...
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Perhaps you have had this conversation with a close friend. Maybe you have run across this Secular vs. Sacred argument on online forums or social media. Regardless of background or context, many people have been confused by this topic and are perplexed by the lack of clear, undeniable facts. In my research, I have discovered that as there are very...
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On Sunday, the 1st of February, news emerged that a suspected suicide bomber who infiltrated the premises of a Winners' Chapel branch in Sabon Tasha, Kaduna State was apprehended with explosive devices. Social Media users celebrated his arrest and expected to hear some staggering details about his motivation and sponsors. Many sections linked him to the regular culprits, the Boko...
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We see the moon as a beautiful bright light gleaming in the night’s dark abyss. The round wonder that mankind thought to be the end all and be all of measuring time, was eventually proven to be leading them to a dead end. What hunters and farmers truly needed was a calendar to predict when the seasons would change. To...
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Introduction Gothic architecture is a well know and extremely recognizable style of architecture, but do we know what actually defines a building as gothic and where the style originated? In this essay, I will give a brief look into the history of gothic architecture. Furthermore, I will pick out and discuss in depth the key characteristics of gothic buildings while...
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There is no art without the artist. Additionally, there is no art without the sponsor. The consequence of a cooperative effort between the artist and the client is beautiful humanist graves, devout frescoes, and towering buildings. The Last Judgment, a fresco by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is located on the wall behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel and shows the event...
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Christianity begins with a man named Jesus. Jesus was the son of God who came to the earth in human form to live and die for the purpose of giving salvation to people who believed and followed him. The New Testament of the Bible accounts for Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. It tells of the new covenant God gave to...
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The United States is made up of many people, ethnicities, and political views. While the American people are one, there is a wide range of diversity within that whole. The great people that make up America differs vastly but come together to make up a country. The United States encompasses many cultures within itself. America itself has not actually invented...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered not only one of the most influential writers in Russian history but one of the most respected authors in all of contemporary literature. His most successful novel, Crime and Punishment, is heralded as a masterpiece and its literary influence is still felt to this day. Dostoevsky himself became very religious following his release from jail, and...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, religion dominates society as the main element of life and work but nature can be seen attacking religion in many ways. Religion in the novel is a prominent factor in the feelings of society towards Hester. Nature, on the other hand, sympathizes with the main character and such, giving hope and God’s light. These...
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Biblical Christianity for Thoughtful People Introduction From the very beginning, God created a world where all his creations would work in unity on earth. Everything that God created was planned out to benefit all and align with the future. God created a path for all to walk down and each step followed another for the path of life to be...
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Christianity is one of the most popular religions in the world today. It has over one million missionaries ready to do God’s word by preaching to the sick, offering food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, and clothing to the poor. Missionary work is hard and requires Christians with a good heart to do it. Additionally, they also encounter...
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In America, citizens are guaranteed the freedom from the government from establishing a national religion and or the freedom to practice a religion of their choosing, which is a fundamental civil right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. “The First Amendment prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the...
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