SO WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO OLD… This year, 2010, the joy of Easter is being shared in common on the same date among the Roman Catholics, Greek, Armenian, Coptic, Syrian and Ethiopian Orthodox, and Protestants. You may be asking yourself, “Self,” you ask, “where are they now?” and well you might ask. What happened to [...]
April 2011
SANHEDRIN The Greek word sunedrion, translated “council” is referred to in the New Testament as “the Great Law-Court”, “the Court of Seventy-One”, and “the rulers and elders and scribes.” It was the supreme theocratic court of the Jews and reflected the local autonomy which the Greek and Roman powers granted the Jewish nation. Its origin [...]
HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR 150 years ago today, on April 12 1861, the first formal hostilities of the American Civil War occurred when Confederate troops attacked the military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Fort, located in Charleston harbor was a coastal fortification built after the War of 1812 as part of [...]
