Great daybreak class this morning at the Lake Worth Municipal Beach led by Tee Jackson, a wonderful teacher sharing universal principles from her Christian perspective:
“Some of us lift weights, watch our diets religiously and spend countless hours in the gym. Do we display that same determination in our spiritual lives? Do we have that same zeal [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bible'
‘Bible on the Beach’ theme: Exercise Your Faith
July 24th · 4 Comments · Bible, Interfaith
On Malaysian Bibles & misguided ‘Muslims’
January 27th · 2 Comments · Bible, Christian, Extremism, Florida Conference of Muslim Americans, Islam, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Muslim, Quran
“Last November the Malaysian government refused to release 10,000 Bibles it had seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God…A few Muslims unfortunately went further and attacked churches, badly damaging some of them. Such actions are condemnable as they contradict normative Islam.”
Appreciation to my friend Imam Enrique Rasheed of Jacksonville for alerting [...]
Tags: Bethesda-by-the-Sea·Dr. Parvez Ahmed·Hebrew Scriptures·Imam Abdul'Haq Muhammed·Ku Klux Klan·Malaysia·The American Muslim·Tom O'Brien
Discovering the New Testament with Tom O’Brien at Bethesda-by-the-Sea
July 2nd · No Comments · Archbishop of Canterbury, Baptism, Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Bible, Christian, Episcopal, Florida Atlantic University, Isaac, Ishmael, Jesus of Nazareth, Marcus J. Borg, Martin Smith, New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Testament, Old Testament, Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Rowan Williams, Thomas G. O’Brien
A different way of thinking about the Bible — namely through the lens of modern biblical scholarship informed by reason — is the premise of Thomas G. O’Brien III’s 15-week course at Bethesda-by-the-Sea. Each class is a treasure, thanks to his love of the richness of the Bible, his encyclopedic knowledge of its history and [...]
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