User talk:Evanh2008/Archive 7
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editHi. I just read your message regarding my edit to the genre section of a page. I'll take the advice given. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UmbrellaCorp128 (talk • contribs) 23:53, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! :) Evan (talk|contribs) 23:58, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Sgt. Pepper peer review
editHi, Evan. I've put Sgt. Pepper up at peer review and I would appreciate any comments and/or suggestions you have for improving the article in preparation for FAC. Cheers! GabeMc (talk|contribs) 16:41, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
- Will do! Go ahead and ping me again if you haven't heard back by Monday. Evan (talk|contribs) 16:10, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
- I'm notifying editors who commented at the Sgt. Pepper peer review to inform them that I've nomed the article at FAC. GabeMc (talk|contribs) 21:26, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Book links
editJust want you to now that the book - Judaism's Story of Creation: Scripture, Halakhah, Aggadah (Brill Reference Library of Judaism)- actually calls it a creation-myth of Genesis at http://books.google.com/books?id=agcdtGmQfwIC&pg=PA38 not a good source for your point..but it is a good publisher. Best if I tell you here before others go of on a rant about it - is a book used before to argue creation-myth. --Moxy (talk) 18:57, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, okay, thanks! I should have looked closer. We can put it in both lists, actually. Evan (talk|contribs) 18:59, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
- Yup is a good example of the problem - they call it creation-myth of Genesis but use the term narrative when talking about its contents. --Moxy (talk) 19:02, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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musicians
Thank you for creating in collaboration quality articles on musicians and bands, such as George Harrison and his religious background, for your projects such as Led Zeppelin, for fighting vandalism, for updating useless witticism, and for amusing edit summaries, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
A year ago, you were the 475th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Seven years ago, you were recipient no. 475 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Wil Wheaton photo discussion
editHi. Can you offer your opinion in the consensus subthread of this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:04, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks for lending your talent to the Sgt. Pepper peer review and FAC. Because of some wonderful teamwork during the last month, the article is among the best on Wikipedia today. I couldn't have done it alone, and I hope that someday I can return the kindness and generosity that I've enjoyed during this process. Cheers! GabeMc (talk|contribs) 16:23, 23 May 2014 (UTC) |
A-class Rock Music reviews
editHi. I'm seeing if there's an interest in doing A-class reviews for rock related articles to help bridge the gap between Good and Featured status. The discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rock music#A class reviews and I'd be grateful if you had any comments. Thankyou. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Peter Shatner
editPlease stop erasing factual data. I am starting to detect a bias. Please read below.
(Wall Street Journal Online by JAMES TARANTO, Aug. 28, 2012 1:59 p.m. ET - He turned out to be Peter Shatner--no relation to Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, but the son of the man who played another Kirk in the original "StarTrek."[1] [2]
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- Have you added the citations to the article? You definitely didn't in the edits I reverted. If you want to add something to a BLP, you need to source the information in the article, not just when someone questions it. Evan (talk|contribs) 14:18, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
You're welcome
editI should add that there were a lot - I mean a lot - or double redirects for this article. I started to clean them up, but would appreciate some help. It seems that someone went to a lot of effort to create a trail of breadcrumbs to the article. Regards, Ground Zero | t 18:26, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Ah. I'll take a look. Evan (talk|contribs) 18:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks
editI wanted to thank you for acknowledging my mention of the Isabel Rivers work. I assume you have read it? This is one of the few books I have bought en masse and given away to people with any interest at all in the subject.
My boyfriend, who is a dyslexic musician, found this book most helpful when we studied it together. He loves Shakespeare, but it is almost a third language for him. There's no greater reward than seeing someone light up when they finally 'get' something from Shakespeare.
In any case, I truly appreciated your thanks for this. :)
μηδείς (talk) 04:32, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- I haven't read it, actually, but after clicking your link I was quite taken with the excerpts I found. I've been dismantling both Milton and Shakespeare in search of various religious themes of late, so it's definitely up my alley (and, with my free time allotment being what it is, "short" is also a selling point). The used bookseller I placed the order from thanks you as well! Evan (talk|contribs) 04:35, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- Wonderful to hear. The book should cost you a pound at most used or two bucks. I'd suggest reading Richard II, Richard III after reading the book. Polanski's film of MacBeth also benefits, as does Olivier's King Lear. Especially Richard II which is undervalued but which has the
- This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
- This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
- This other Eden, demi-paradise,
- This fortress built by Nature for herself
- Against infection and the hand of war,
- This happy breed of men, this little world,
- This precious stone set in the silver sea,
- Which serves it in the office of a wall
- Or as a moat defensive to a house,
- Against the envy of less happier lands,
- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
- soliloquy in it. Much of what is said there and before and after cannot otherwise be understood. For instance, John of Gaunt is dying and knows he is dying and hence describes himself as a prophet new inspired. This is dealt with in the Stoicism chapter. The Stoics identified the breath with the soul, and hence held the words of dying men like Gaunt as closer to the "inspiration" of heaven. An Elizabethan schoolboy would know this, but not we latter-day readers. Enjoy and pass along. 05:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- Wonderful to hear. The book should cost you a pound at most used or two bucks. I'd suggest reading Richard II, Richard III after reading the book. Polanski's film of MacBeth also benefits, as does Olivier's King Lear. Especially Richard II which is undervalued but which has the
Notification of 2nd nomination of Victoria Pynchon for deletion
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The Beatles Invite
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- Nope! Thanks, though. Evan (talk|contribs) 19:17, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Infobox photo discussion
editHi again. Happy New Year. Can you offer your opinion on which photo is better for the Infobox here? If you're not able to participate, just disregard this message; you don't have to message me. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 01:14, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Damion Scott Infobox photo discussion
editHi. Damion Scott has taken issue with the photo in his article. He previously demanded that I replace it with one that I thought inferior to the one already in the Infobox, and has now replaced with a third one of his own. In the interest of WP:CONSENSUS, can you offer your opinion on this? Thanks again. Nightscream (talk) 19:24, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Community desysoping RfC
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A Prophet new inspired
editYes, I'll certainly be glad to help. I would have sworn the matter is covered in Rivers. I may also have read it in Harbage (A Reader's Guide to William Shakespeare) which I also highly recommend, or it may have been something I heard on a commentary documentary, although I doubt that. Giovanni Reale's Systems of the Hellenistic Age is invaluable for understanding the Stoics. The best thing will be to email me since I can mark an email unread as a reminder--WP is not good for leaving reminders. I just came acrost Rivers recently while cataloguing what I have in storage. I should be able to find that easily. Do you abide in the US? I might also be able to get you or email you a copy of the Fiona Shaw version of Richard II, since Deborah Warner's production company seems entirely uninterested in releasing it commercially. I live in NY, so both email me when you get this, and ping me around 8-ish on Thursday night.
Oh, and I just threw out my copy of Harbage, which had split in two at the spine. But I'll see if I can get it from the library. μηδείς (talk) 04:11, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
- Do keep pinging me on this. All the people my parents' age are deciding to die, I have ineffectual healthcare, and the requested refs are only showing up once a week thru ILL. But I am trying. μηδείς (talk) 06:01, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
EUREKA!
My source was indeed Reale's Systems of the Hellenistic Age, p 303, where he quotes Cicero (from Cicero's De Divinatione) as saying "Proof of the power of dying men to prophesy is also given by Posidonius..." You can read the full account here. Obviously you'll need to get the original Cicero. I don't have On Divination myself.
Here is the result of googling "Shakespeare and Cicero" and this analytical and densely annotated source, published on line, Materials for the Construction of SHAKESPEARE'S MORALS The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance by Ben R. Schneider, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English at Lawrence U. seems quite excellent. μηδείς (talk) 23:01, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
- Once again, sign on issues. In any case:
- Hey, for some reason, I have been unable to read past page 8 of the pdf. (The problem may be on my end, I will see what I can do.)
- I was curious if you know the history of Beethoven's Third Symphony, the Eroica, which is considered by many the first musical work of the Romantic movement, and which B had dedicated to Napoleon, until he ripped up the title sheet. Caveat lector: again I go by memory.
- Hey, Medeis! I sent a PDF file again, along with the DOCX original. Hope you can get into it somehow. I am indeed aware of the Eroica affair, and it's certainly a great example of the kind of thing I'm exploring from a political angle—disillusionment, not to be confused with disenchantment in the Weberian sense, which is a parallel Enlightenment/Romantic development mostly in the realm of religion. The interesting thing about Napoleon is that Romantic admiration for him comes out of an era in which old religious and political orders were overturned, so by the time e.g. Wordsworth renounces the Napoleonic cause, the disillusionment has spiraled inward again into a weird kind of meta-disillusionment. In Byron, because of the way he casts it in supernatural and religious language, I think we can legitimately call this disenchantment, whatever that means on a literary level. The spell has broken. Evan (talk|contribs) 22:39, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
- I am sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet, I got the pdf in fully readable format, but then Christmas and the relatives and New Years. Tomorrow I get the cast off my foot. Please just email me with the subject line "reminder" and I will get back, probably within 24 hours. μηδείς (talk) 23:07, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
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Ngah!
editSee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Bigger_Picture
My hard drive has crashed 3 times since the early part of Dec., so forgive me on that. μηδείς (talk) 22:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- I should also mention that in the first 30 pages or so of The War of the Jewels, Tolkien has Fëanor say that he prophesies something, being close to death. I can get you the exact ref if you email me. μηδείς (talk) 00:12, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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Ichthus April 2018
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Project News
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Belated Happy Easter and Kalo Pascha! We're excited to announce the return of our newsletter Ichthus! Getting this issue out was touch-and-go for a while. Check out what's happening at the Project:
- There was a lively discussion about the Easter Did You Know nomination Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- RFC at Knights of Columbus regarding a question about having Prop 8 in the lead
- In anticipation of being nominated for Featured article, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was put up for Peer Review by Ltwin
- The death of Billy Graham on February 21 was a profound loss for many. For the Wikipedia reaction see this discussion. Graham received a blurb.
- And... Order of Friars Minor--nominated by Chicbyaccident--is still waiting for a GA reviewer. Please help out if you can.
Achievements
In March the Project saw four articles promoted to GA-Class. They were the oh-so-irresistible Delilah (nom. MagicatthemovieS) (pictured), Edict of Torda (nom. Borsoka), David Meade (author) (nom. LovelyGirl7) and last but not least Black Christmas (2006 film) (nom. Drown_Soda). Black Christmas? How did that get in there lol? Congratulations to all of the nominators for a job well done!
Did You Know
Nominated by The C of E
... that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?"
Featured article
Nominated by FutureTrillionaire
Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–33 AD) is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah of the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that a historical Jesus existed, although there is little agreement on the reliability of the gospel narratives and how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the historical Jesus. Most scholars agree that Jesus was a Jewish preacher from Galilee, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. Christians generally believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, performed miracles, founded the Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from which he will return. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three Persons of a Divine Trinity. A few Christian groups reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. In Islam, Jesus is considered one of God's important prophets and the Messiah. (Full article...)
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Project News
By Lionelt
Last month's auspicious relaunch of our newsletter precipitated something of an uproar in the Wikipedia community. What started as a localized edit war over censorship spilled over onto the Administrator's Noticeboard finally ending up at Wikipedia's supreme judicial body ArbCom. Their ruling resulted in the admonishment of administrator Future Perfect at Sunrise for his involvement in the dispute. The story was reported by Wikipedia's venerable flagship newspaper The Signpost.
The question of whether to delete all portals--including the 27 Christianity-related portals--was put to the Wikipedia community. Approximately 400 editors have participated in the protracted discussion. Going by !votes, Oppose deletion has a distinct majority. The original Christianity Portal was created on November 5, 2005 by Brisvegas and the following year he successfully nominated the portal for Featured Portal. The Transhumanist has revived WikiProject Portals with hopes of revitalizing Wikipedia's system of 1,515 portals.
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Achievements
Four articles in the Project were promoted to GA: Edict of Torda nom. by Borsoka, Jim Bakker nom. by LovelyGirl7, Ralph Abernathy nom. by Coffee and Psalm 84 nom. by Gerda_Arendt. The Psalm ends with "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Words to live by. Please support our members and send some WikiLove to the nominators!
Featured article
Nominated by Spangineer
Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of the rainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known as the Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence, both against their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Protestants to evangelize the Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 2, 1956, the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts culminated on January 8, 1956, when all five—Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006, was the subject of the film production End of the Spear. (more...)
Did You Know
Nominated by Dahn
"... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?"
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Infobox photo discussion
editHi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:48, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Ichthus June 2018
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Project news
By Lionelt
Here are discussions relevant to the Project:
- Liberty University has an RFC regarding the university's relationship with President Trump; see discussion
- Is Genesis History? has an RFC regarding acceptability of movie reviews for inclusion; see discussion
- United States pro-life movement has a requested move to United States anti-abortion movement; see discussion
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Did You Know
Nominated by Gonzonoir
... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
Featured article
Nominated by Cliftonian
The Mortara case was a controversy precipitated by the Papal States' seizure of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish child, from his family in Bologna, Italy, in 1858. The city's inquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard from a servant that she had administered emergency baptism to the boy when he fell sick as an infant, and the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held that this made the child irrevocably a Catholic. Because the Papal States had forbidden the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it was ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church. After visits from the child's father, international protests mounted, but Pope Pius IX would not be moved. The boy grew up as a Catholic with the Pope as a substitute father, trained for the priesthood in Rome until 1870, and was ordained in France three years later. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome during the unification of Italy, ending the pontifical state; opposition across Italy, Europe and the United States over Mortara's treatment may have contributed to its downfall. (Full article...)
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A barnstar for you!
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The Top 7 report
By Lionelt
The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
- Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
- Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
- Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
- Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
- Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"
Did you know
Nominated by The C of E
... that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn "Sun of Unclouded Righteousness" asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism?
Our newest Featured list
Nominated by Freikorp
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.
Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages raging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. In the UK in 2015, the general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Between one and three percent of people from both countries thought the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion. (more...)
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Can you offer your opinion in this discussion?
editHi. In the past you've offered your opinion in choosing photos for the Infobox. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion on a related topic? It may go toward a precedent regarding captions. Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream (talk) 19:55, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
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The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
- Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
- Martin Luther King Jr. –" There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of Cork, Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene.
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A suicide attack on July 11th claimed by Islamic State (IS) near a church in the Syrian city of Qamishli shows that Christians remain a major target of the terror group. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia – was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1669, she translated the Colloquy of Christ by Carthusian monk Lanspergius from Spanish into Italian.
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
- Bob Dylan – American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist. " Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
- Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
... that The Vision of Dorotheus is one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry?
When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the spouse that God has planned for them.
The book is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters. Each chapter is written from the perspective of one of the two authors; nine are by Eric, while Leslie wrote seven, as well as the introduction. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly unchaste or sexually abused individuals.
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Ichthus December 2019
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The Top 3 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Dolly Parton - an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music.
Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: " I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything." - Harriet Tubman - an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and made some missions to rescue enslaved people, using the network of antislavery activists and Underground Railroads. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout, spy for the Union Army.
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
- ... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
- ... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "staves". A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. (more...)
| “ | Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. | ” |
Romans 12:10 New King James Version (NKJV)
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Ichthus January 2020
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The Top 3 most-popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Pope Benedict XVI – retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation.
- Pope Francis – the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
- Dolly Parton – an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: "I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."
- ...that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
- ...that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
- ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"?
- ...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?
A Song for Simeon, is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the Ariel poems series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer. "A Song for Simeon" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poem's narrative echoes the text of the Nunc dimittis, a liturgical prayer for Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes, Dante Alighieri and St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of anti-Semitism on Eliot's part.
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| “ | May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose. | ” |
Psalm 20:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
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