Sublime

Für die jüdisch-christliche Kultur gehört die Geschichte von Kain und Abel zu den Gründungsmythen der Menschheit.

“Racist Sins of Christians” was first published in 1963 by Sign magazine

I did a ton of research on tithes and offerings in Scripture, and discovered they are unmistakably intended to be used for redistributing resources to the poor and not to go toward buildings and staff for the church. I quoted the church fathers and mothers, who had much to say about the shameful use of church offerings for anything other than

More people have left the church in the last twenty-five years than all the new people who became Christians from the First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening, and Billy Graham crusades combined.

secular burial customs and adopting secular attitudes about bereavement—including the larger culture’s tendency to underestimate the power of grief and the impact of loss. Death itself has become something of a stranger.

The ancient Pagan world sustained a population not matched again in Europe until the eighteenth century.[

Yet, pre–Civil War, most Americans died, experienced family-centered postmortem care, and were buried at home.

The growth of the religious right in the 1970s was in large part a backlash against the civil rights movement and women’s movement. To this day, in North Carolina, 65 percent describe themselves as very religions. Three-fourths say they believe in God with absolute certainty. And 77 percent of the adult population identify as Christian, the