Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love . Nearly a decade after Spain’s conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of [...]
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Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love
Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, History of Christianity, tagged Christianity, guadalupe, Lady of Guadalupe, maria, Marry, mother, native Americans, religion, spiritual on August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas
Posted in Christianity, General Christianity, History of Christianity, tagged All Ye Faithful, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Cantique de Noel, ceremonies, Christianity, Christmas Eve, Christmas songs, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Isaac Watts, Jesus Christ, John Mason Neale, John Wade, Little Town of Bethlehem, Nat King Cole, Phillips Brooks, religion, rites, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Silver Bells, Son of God, Stille Nacht, White Christmas on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas . Collins is an ace at song history, dispensing compendiums of song backstories that are nothing if not tasty–quite a feat, given the saccharinity of popular-music commentators in general. His custom is to tell how a song came to be written and popularized, capping the resultant article with [...]
Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas
Posted in Christianity, General Christianity, History of Christianity, tagged Christianity, religion, Christmas, story, nativity displays, jolly old elf, glass ornaments, yule log, Santa Claus, mistletoe, Christmas trees, candy canes, poinsettias on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas . Collins serves up some little-known holiday history in this interesting book that teems with Christmas facts and legends, arranged alphabetically by topic. Readers will be fascinated to learn, for example, that the holiday shopping season used to be only a couple of weeks long, but was extended [...]
Your Spirits Walk Beside Us : The Politics of Black Religion
Posted in Christianity, Controversial Knowledge, General Christianity, History of Christianity, Religious Studies, tagged Black Religion, Christianity, Politics, religion, Religious Studies on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your Spirits Walk Beside Us : The Politics of Black Religion . Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement with black churches at its center, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. In her revelatory book, Barbara Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly [...]
The Masks of Christ : Behind the Lies and Cover-ups About the Life of Jesus
Posted in Christianity, Controversial Knowledge, General Christianity, History of Christianity, Religious Studies, tagged Christian, Christianity, Controversial Knowledge, gnostic, gospels, Jesus, Jesus Christ, mythology, religion, Religious Studies, spiritual on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Masks of Christ : Behind the Lies and Cover-ups About the Life of Jesus . From the gnostic gospels to the Nativity, religious mythology immortalized Jesus — his personality, his actions, his words — but what if they didn’t tell the truth?
Although an entire religion is based on his teachings, Jesus himself did not [...]
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