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Trump is doubly wrong about Twitter Laurence H. Tribe, Joshua A. Geltzer Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard. Joshua A. Geltzer is executive director and visiting professor of law at Georgetown’s Institute for...

The North Koreans were the clear aggressors in the Korean War. They came very close to winning it when they had the Americans and the ROK trapped in the Pusan Perimeter. That was some plan "to establish a U.S. base to attack China and reconquer that former British colony". And BTW, China was...

The Russian Revolution brought the Mensheviks to power. These were moderate communists but very shortly the radical communists, known as Bolsheviks, under Lenin attempted to seize power. This led to a civil war with the White Army (Mensheviks) fighting the Red Army (Bolsheviks). The Allied...

Hmmm. 7 + 84 = 91 plus maybe 15 at marriage makes her 106. So, yes, very old. In fact unlikely old for that time and place. I agree that it is likely that the ages are symbolic.

Any organization, religious or secular and including marriage, that fails to include women in leadership roles right up to the very top is guilty of several evils. First, it is the insult to the women themselves by viewing them as less worthy. Second, it is the insult to God by denigrating half...

Today, May 5, is Liberation Day in Holland. 75 years ago today the German Army in Holland surrendered to the Canadian Army. The link between Holland and Canada has been powerful ever since. This probably the first year since that Canadian veterans have not returned for the celebration.

It does not matter whether or not Zechariah and Elizabeth are real people. The story is modeled on Abraham and Sarah and is intended to demonstrate that God's work in the world continues on. This is in the Hebrew/Jewish literary tradition of haggadic midrash that is so common throughout the...

The general consensus of modern Bible scholars seems to be that Luke came about five years after Matthew.

One has to wonder if Luke had ever read Matthew at all since both his Genealogy of Jesus and his Birth Narrative contradict Matthew in a great many respects ---- well, most respects.

I have been thinking much the same for years. These are dangerous times for the USA. Trump is a loose cannon.

Sounds interesting.

Three men married three girls. The first married an English girl. He told her to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day he came home to see a clean house and the dishes washed and put away. The second married an American girl. He gave her orders to do...

Two Irish nuns were sitting at a traffic light in their car when a bunch of rowdy drunks pulls up alongside of them. "Hey, show us your tits, ye bloody penguins!" shouts one of the drunks. The Mother Superior turns to Sister Immaculata, "I don't think they know who we are , show them your...

That sounds exactly like Donald Trump --- the scariest and most dangerous man in the world.

Compared to The Synoptics GJn (the Gospel of John) shows much more Christological development. That is to say that The Synoptics tend to emphasize the Jesus of history whereas GJn talks more about the cosmological Christ. I also tend to agree with the Jesus Seminar in their conclusion that none...