Day Bidet #46

Back like I never left:

1. “The norm within early Christianity was non-violence.”
2. “Steven Rauch said … he forgives the officers who shot his daughter and wants those same officers at her funeral.”
3. “The number of confirmed figures from the New Testament now consists of at least seven religious figures … plus 23 political figures—currently 30 in all.”
4. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
5. “In Isaiah 40:6 the prophet is saying that the commitment of Israel to the covenant was like the flower of the field: it did not last very long.”
6. “The real minimum wage is $0.00.”
7. “I have a friend who wandered away from Christ for several decades. He considered himself an atheist and kept far away from church. But he eventually made his way back. I asked him one time, ‘What brought you back?’ He said: ‘A catastrophic need for grace.'”

More:

“The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to Gröning 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested.”

“Galatians 2:9 is also significant in the context of the historicity of the gospels and Acts…. Galatians 2:9 has Peter and John together as reputed pillars of the church (James the son of Zebedee being dead by then). And the prominence of James the brother of Jesus in Galatians 2:9 is what we’d expect from Acts. So is the placing of Paul and Barnabas together.”

“I die innocent of the charge against me.”

“What is the Longest Book of the Bible?”