I’ve just spent almost three weeks in China. As part of that time, I visited with colleagues one of the wonders of the world east of Xi’an, the Terracotta warriors. We entered one of three viewing areas for the major excavation pits, and it was simply stunning. There before us were thousands of intricately carved… Read More What Else Lies Buried?
Anytime we have expectations, or trust in someone or something to meet them, we risk disillusionment and disappointment when it doesn’t come to pass. So it is for many people with political power. Perhaps it is an expectation that a particular political leader will get elected and lead us into a promised land. Doesn’t usually happen… Read More In “Political Power” We Trust? What Can We Learn From Timothy I of Baghdad, Part 3
The question erupted into the news in the USA last week based in part on the comments of Dr. Ben Carson, one of many candidates of the Republican party. Could a Muslim serve as President? Reactions were swift and varied. The idea that having a believing Christian as President and therefore that having the pinnacle… Read More A Muslim President in the USA? What Can We Learn From Timothy of Baghdad, Part 2
As promised I will devote several posts from time to time on the history of the Church of the East. One of my personal heroes is the leader of the Church for many years in Asia, Timothy 1. He is perhaps one of the greatest mission-minded leaders in history. His death at the age of… Read More Who was Timothy I of Baghdad and Why Does He Matter Today? Part 1
From the Holy Mountain. Yesterday I mentioned in my post a book by William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain. You can order it at the link through worldchristian.com
Where was the first Christian church building, probably in 180 C.E.? Where was the first place outside of Antioch that Christian missionaries were sent out to the east? Where were two of the first Asian Christian theologians based, Bardaisan and Tatian? Where was the first Christian theological college/university, near to the year 200 C.E.? The… Read More Where Have All the Christians Gone?
In 2013 a newly elected Pope Francis, responding to the rising concern about Christian refugees leaving the Middle East in the wake of persecution, made this comment, “The Vatican will not resign itself to a Middle East without Christians.” Since that time those leaving from areas like Northern Iraq and Syria has only been on… Read More A Middle East Without Christians? A USA/Europe Without Muslims?
This week I received the good news from Regnum Press that my proposal to revise and publish my thesis as a book has been accepted! I now have a contract and start the long and winding road of revision. After a sometimes tortuous odyssey that resulted in a thesis of 275 pages and 102,000 words,… Read More From Thesis to Book: The Journey Begins
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