Archive for October, 2014
Thoughts Concerning Halloween, Ancient and Modern
Thoughts Concerning Halloween, Ancient and Modern This week many of us in our culture will celebrate Halloween with pumpkin carving, gift giving, trick or treating, and many other joyous ceremonies. When we do so, we will be only the latest among many thousands of years of people who have marked this occasion, not necessarily in […]
Common Ground
Common Ground: “Stay away from those who consider themselves to be learned. They walk around in fine clothes and like to be noticed so that they might be honored in public. They take seats of honor in synagogues, and at feasts. These hypocrites steal from widows even as they repeat long prayers. The judgment that […]