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Mara Rockliff
Thanks again for looking at the Mara Rockliff article. Being between a paid Wikipedia writer and her intern is a new experience for me. I have no way to contact the intern directly and I am not sure if her boss is critically looking at the sources or lack of sources. They first contacted me on my talk page and when I wasn't excited with overwriting the entire article, they called in a friend to triple down. (Although the friend did not specifially endorse their project). I moved the discussion to the article's talk page with hopes of involving someone like you. So far, the intern has added content that was partially unsourced, removed existing sources when making edits, and made changes based on the style of a starter article. I have fixed these issues but now feel like I am being a hall monitor rather than a collaborator. I ran into some hyper-protective bullies/editors when I first started being serious about Wikipedia and swore that I would never become one of them. Rublamb ( talk) 13:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi, mutulino is not my intern. She's a friend of mine who is new to editing Wikipedia. Rachel Helps (BYU) ( talk) 15:21, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @ Rublamb! Sorry we seem to have gotten off to a confused start. To clarify: I'm knowledgeable about children's literature but new to Wikipedia, so I asked @ Rachel Helps (BYU) as a favor to come in and oversee me as I worked on improving this article. She called on @ Barkeep49 to offer a neutral fourth opinion, as an experienced Wikipedia editor who has worked on pages about children's authors. I'm glad another experienced editor turned up, as @ Jchthys also seems to have plenty of helpful thoughts! Mitulino ( talk) 15:55, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your copyedit work in Codex Sinaiticus, though you made only one mistake. It has almost 4 000 000 letters. Even 1 Epistle of John has more than 4 000 letters. Article about Codex Sinaiticus has about 30 000 letters (probably). It was not mistake. In many books you can find information about value the text of the codex with comparision to other manuscripts (f.e. in books of Metzger, in external links). You can find it in many books, and until to discovering Uncial 0308 all scholars agreed in this case. It is nothing knew. Leszek Jańczuk ( talk) 01:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
- Good copy edit work. By the way, number of 4 000 000 was estimated by Tischendorf, and no other scholarch tried do the same after him. Leszek Jańczuk ( talk) 04:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I've removed your prod tag. I created that redirect since there were multiple examples of this incorrect name being used apparently accidentally. As I discussed in the edit summary that created the redirect one example is this article. JoshuaZ ( talk) 22:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- I agree. It does read pretty strangely. The oddest thing is that most of the people using the incorrect title seem to be sources like that I linked to above which one would think would be more likely to be sympathetic to the movie. Given that the incorrect title seems to almost sound like a dig at the movie it is quite puzzling. JoshuaZ ( talk) 15:41, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't see any compelling reason to make it a soft-redirect but don't have any objection either. JoshuaZ ( talk) 16:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- Just so people realize that it's an incorrect title. Jchthys ( talk) 16:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- But we do that all the time with redirects anyways. Typos as well as common nicknames are routine for redirects. If someone for example writes the common misspelling [[[Machiaveli]] they get redirected to Niccolò Machiavelli. The existence of a redirect tells them that the title is wrong. JoshuaZ ( talk) 17:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- Note: Wikipedia:Soft redirect gives many reasons for using one, and "to let people know they have the wrong title/spelling" is not one of them. Its almost always for cross-project redirects. KillerChihuahua ?!? 18:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Q.E.D.
I have no difficulty with the disambiguation page. I just thought it was unsuitable to add my common use bit there since there are so many diffent meanings it would make little sense there.
I agree with you in principle that things should be to be taken to discussion, in practice I find (and Q.E.D is an example) that nothing happens if you put it to discussion, and then immediately things do when you edit something. So, I tend to just Be Bold and edit, intending always not to trample other editors' contributions, rather than discuss them, which in practice gets nowhere.
Of course that varies between articles. Some are very busy, some quiet; in the busier ones there may actually be an active discussion, and if so I will use it.
I have added some more changes to Q.E.D. I should be happy if you cast your eye over them. Although I do try to check very carefully, inevitably typing mistakes etc. creep in.
Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 19:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- BTW "Reliable sources must be cited". This is obviously not true, it is a destination not a journey. I think it better to go along that journey; if every article had to be perfect at its first attempt, Wikipedia wouldn't exist. Obviously one doesn't like those that derail the train, but to let it go on its journey is OK. Just my opinion. SimonTrew ( talk) 19:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- If you look at previous revisions of the page, it appears that there used to be an entire section about jokes, such as ‘Quite Easily Done’, ‘Quite Enough, Doofus’, etc. It got out of hand, and one editor completely removed such non-technical references. I restored a brief remark mentioning such uses, but the editor claimed that instances of Q.E.D. being claimed as coming from ‘Quite Easily Done’ is not acceptable. However, I do think there is a legitimate place for these non-scientific uses; in fact, Q.E.D. appears to be rarely used nowadays. ¶ For your information, I believe that Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood has Friar Tuck using Q.E.D. after a pseudo-logical argument, like argal in Hamlet. — Jch thys 23:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe, but I didn't do that. I added a brief sentence, linking several other articles together, to say the expression was in common parlance to mean "done". I admit I didn't cite— one can only do so much at once, I was hurrying around trying to stretch a whole set of articles together into a coherent whole. I don't think that is the same as putting in joke definitions. If you haven't heard it used in speech, that's your opinion and needs discussion, it is quite common in my field-- to the extent people that wouldn't know what it means use it. That perhaps means it should be a separate page, but the way people use it is closest to the mathematical definiton than any other on Wikipedia. Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 00:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- As I wrote on the talk page of the article, I hear joke definitions and other non-technical usage more often than the ‘correct’ usage. I think I have heard it in speech. I hope you can manage to further contribute to the article. — Jch thys 02:30, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Can we please take this to discussion on the main Q.E.D. discussion because frankly I regard your last edit as vandalism and you have not had the courtesy to reply here. SimonTrew ( talk) 03:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Oh dear me I was editing several articles at once, and that is always fatal to me. I must apologise. I still dislike your edit but I shouldn't have been so bad about it-- another I had to be. Please excuse me. SimonTrew ( talk) 03:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- I’m missing something—which edit was that? I don’t see an edit of mine that you reverted. — Jch thys 15:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- I didn't revert it, though I was sorely tempted at the time being in rather a foul mood. For that, again, I apologise. SimonTrew ( talk) 15:29, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. Was it the one where I wrote that ‘Q.E.D. thus completes the proof’? — Jch thys 15:44, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter
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| August 2013 |
From the Editor
Welcome to the August 2013 issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. We focus on the historical Jesus and reflect on the last month.
The project has another featured picture, The ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a digitisation of an oil-on-canvas painting. Our top-importance article, Jesus, has been nominated for Featured Article status, the discussion can be seen here; Knights of Colombus has also been nominated as a FAC.
Ecgbert (bishop) and Church architecture in Scotland have both this month achieved Good Article status.
Our project had several of its articles featured in the main page DYK section, including Hinckley Priory, Little Chapel, St Peter's Church, Ropsley, Chip Ingram, St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen, Great George Street Congregational Church, St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill and Bunge church.
Our thanks go to all of those who have worked to achieve these article milestones.
Church of the month
This image, of Maillezais Cathedral and created by Selbymay was this month promoted to featured picture status.
Membership report
We would like to welcome our newest members,
Thechristophermorris,
Psmidi and
Jchthys. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the
Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.
Focus on...
THE
HISTORICAL JESUS
What was Jesus like? What did he preach? Did he claim to be the Messiah? Did he predict an apocalypse? What can we know about him outside a religious context? The Historical Jesus article discusses what can be known about Jesus with various degrees of probability. While scholars agree on the over all flow and outline of Jesus' life (his baptism by John, debated Jewish authorities, healings, and his crucifixion by Pilate) they have built various and diverging portraits of the rest of his life. These range from minimalist portraits that accept very little of the gospel accounts to maximalists who accept most of the accounts as historical.
The portraits of Jesus have at times been unwitting reflections of the researchers themselves, and Crossan once quipped that some authors "do autobiography and call it biography". However, the study of historical Jesus has made one thing clear: there is so much to learn about Jesus that the more one looks, the more there is to discover.
From the bookshelf
In this book Maurice Casey not only draws on his special expertise in the Aramaic traditions and the Q source, but provides a comprehensive review of the various approaches to the historical Jesus.
Did you know...
- ... that in 1951 Christianity was the second largest religion in the world with 500 million followers, compared to 520 million Buddhists, but by 2013 it had gained the top spot with about 2.2 billion Christians?
Calendar
This month we celebrate the feasts of
St Lawrence,
St Bernard, and
St Augustine.
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Ichthus April 2018
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Project News
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Belated Happy Easter and Kalo Pascha! We're excited to announce the return of our newsletter Ichthus! Getting this issue out was touch-and-go for a while. Check out what's happening at the Project:
- There was a lively discussion about the Easter Did You Know nomination Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- RFC at Knights of Columbus regarding a question about having Prop 8 in the lead
- In anticipation of being nominated for Featured article, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was put up for Peer Review by Ltwin
- The death of Billy Graham on February 21 was a profound loss for many. For the Wikipedia reaction see this discussion. Graham received a blurb.
- And... Order of Friars Minor--nominated by Chicbyaccident--is still waiting for a GA reviewer. Please help out if you can.
Achievements
In March the Project saw four articles promoted to GA-Class. They were the oh-so-irresistible Delilah (nom. MagicatthemovieS) (pictured), Edict of Torda (nom. Borsoka), David Meade (author) (nom. LovelyGirl7) and last but not least Black Christmas (2006 film) (nom. Drown_Soda). Black Christmas? How did that get in there lol? Congratulations to all of the nominators for a job well done!
Did You Know
Nominated by
The C of E
... that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?"
Featured article
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Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–33 AD) is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah of the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that a historical Jesus existed, although there is little agreement on the reliability of the gospel narratives and how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the historical Jesus. Most scholars agree that Jesus was a Jewish preacher from Galilee, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. Christians generally believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, performed miracles, founded the Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from which he will return. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three Persons of a Divine Trinity. A few Christian groups reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. In Islam, Jesus is considered one of God's important prophets and the Messiah. ( Full article...)
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Ichthus: May 2018
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Project News
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Last month's auspicious relaunch of our newsletter precipitated something of an uproar in the Wikipedia community. What started as a localized edit war over censorship spilled over onto the Administrator's Noticeboard finally ending up at Wikipedia's supreme judicial body ArbCom. Their ruling resulted in the admonishment of administrator Future Perfect at Sunrise for his involvement in the dispute. The story was reported by Wikipedia's venerable flagship newspaper The Signpost.
The question of whether to delete all portals--including the 27 Christianity-related portals--was put to the Wikipedia community. Approximately 400 editors have participated in the protracted discussion. Going by !votes, Oppose deletion has a distinct majority. The original Christianity Portal was created on November 5, 2005 by Brisvegas and the following year he successfully nominated the portal for Featured Portal. The Transhumanist has revived WikiProject Portals with hopes of revitalizing Wikipedia's system of 1,515 portals.
Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings at the Project
Achievements
Four articles in the Project were promoted to GA: Edict of Torda nom. by Borsoka, Jim Bakker nom. by LovelyGirl7, Ralph Abernathy nom. by Coffee and Psalm 84 nom. by Gerda_Arendt. The Psalm ends with "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Words to live by. Please support our members and send some WikiLove to the nominators!
Featured article
Nominated by
Spangineer
Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of the rainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known as the Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence, both against their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Protestants to evangelize the Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 2, 1956, the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts culminated on January 8, 1956, when all five— Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006, was the subject of the film production End of the Spear. ( more...)
Did You Know
Nominated by
Dahn
"... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?"
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Ichthus June 2018
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Project news
By
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Here are discussions relevant to the Project:
- Liberty University has an RFC regarding the university's relationship with President Trump; see discussion
- Is Genesis History? has an RFC regarding acceptability of movie reviews for inclusion; see discussion
- United States pro-life movement has a requested move to United States anti-abortion movement; see discussion
The following articles need reviewers for GA-class: Type of Constans nom. by Gog the Mild, Tian Feng (magazine) nom. by Finnusertop. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings at the Project
Did You Know
Nominated by
Gonzonoir
... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
Featured article
Nominated by
Cliftonian
The Mortara case was a controversy precipitated by the Papal States' seizure of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish child, from his family in Bologna, Italy, in 1858. The city's inquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard from a servant that she had administered emergency baptism to the boy when he fell sick as an infant, and the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held that this made the child irrevocably a Catholic. Because the Papal States had forbidden the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it was ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church. After visits from the child's father, international protests mounted, but Pope Pius IX would not be moved. The boy grew up as a Catholic with the Pope as a substitute father, trained for the priesthood in Rome until 1870, and was ordained in France three years later. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome during the unification of Italy, ending the pontifical state; opposition across Italy, Europe and the United States over Mortara's treatment may have contributed to its downfall. ( Full article...)
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Ichthus: July 2018
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The Top 7 report
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The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
- Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
- Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
- Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
- Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
- Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"
Did you know
Nominated by
The C of E
... that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn " Sun of Unclouded Righteousness" asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism?
Our newest Featured list
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Freikorp
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.
Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages raging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. In the UK in 2015, the general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Between one and three percent of people from both countries thought the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion. ( more...)
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PROD Hearing (person)
I noticed you did some work on Hearing (person). I'm just letting you know that I have proposed this article for deletion. CircleGirl ( talk) 21:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Ichthus June 2019
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The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
- Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is " Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written " Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
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Martin Luther King Jr. –" There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single " Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a
Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of
Cork,
Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to
Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the
Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of
Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene.
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Ichthus July 2019
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A suicide attack on July 11th claimed by Islamic State (IS) near a church in the Syrian city of Qamishli shows that Christians remain a major target of the terror group. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is " Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written " Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia – was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1669, she translated the Colloquy of Christ by Carthusian monk Lanspergius from Spanish into Italian.
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
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Bob Dylan – American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist. " Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
- Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single " Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
... that The Vision of Dorotheus is one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry?
When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the spouse that God has planned for them.
The book is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters. Each chapter is written from the perspective of one of the two authors; nine are by Eric, while Leslie wrote seven, as well as the introduction. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's
relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly
unchaste or
sexually abused individuals.
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(assuming you want all of the colors to work) to
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If you don't want some of these colors to work, just remove the <span style="color:...">...</span> markup you don't want.
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As explained at WP:SIGFONT:
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My proposed replacement string from 2019 is still good! — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:18, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks,
Anomalocaris! I don't edit nearly as frequently as I did ~15 years ago, and I'd completely missed this when you wrote in 2019. It should be updated now.
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Ichthus December 2019
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Dolly Parton - an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in
country music.
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- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is " Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written " Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
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- ... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a
novella by
Charles Dickens, first published in London by
Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by
John Leech. The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "
staves". A Christmas Carol recounts the story of
Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly
miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner
Jacob Marley and the spirits of
Christmas Past,
Present and
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- ...that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
- ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme " Oranges and Lemons"?
- ...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?
A Song for Simeon, is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is
one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the
Ariel poems series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by
Faber and Gwyer. "A Song for Simeon" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by
avant garde artist
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Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers
Lancelot Andrewes,
Dante Alighieri and
St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of
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Mara Rockliff
Thanks again for looking at the Mara Rockliff article. Being between a paid Wikipedia writer and her intern is a new experience for me. I have no way to contact the intern directly and I am not sure if her boss is critically looking at the sources or lack of sources. They first contacted me on my talk page and when I wasn't excited with overwriting the entire article, they called in a friend to triple down. (Although the friend did not specifially endorse their project). I moved the discussion to the article's talk page with hopes of involving someone like you. So far, the intern has added content that was partially unsourced, removed existing sources when making edits, and made changes based on the style of a starter article. I have fixed these issues but now feel like I am being a hall monitor rather than a collaborator. I ran into some hyper-protective bullies/editors when I first started being serious about Wikipedia and swore that I would never become one of them. Rublamb ( talk) 13:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi, mutulino is not my intern. She's a friend of mine who is new to editing Wikipedia. Rachel Helps (BYU) ( talk) 15:21, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @ Rublamb! Sorry we seem to have gotten off to a confused start. To clarify: I'm knowledgeable about children's literature but new to Wikipedia, so I asked @ Rachel Helps (BYU) as a favor to come in and oversee me as I worked on improving this article. She called on @ Barkeep49 to offer a neutral fourth opinion, as an experienced Wikipedia editor who has worked on pages about children's authors. I'm glad another experienced editor turned up, as @ Jchthys also seems to have plenty of helpful thoughts! Mitulino ( talk) 15:55, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your copyedit work in Codex Sinaiticus, though you made only one mistake. It has almost 4 000 000 letters. Even 1 Epistle of John has more than 4 000 letters. Article about Codex Sinaiticus has about 30 000 letters (probably). It was not mistake. In many books you can find information about value the text of the codex with comparision to other manuscripts (f.e. in books of Metzger, in external links). You can find it in many books, and until to discovering Uncial 0308 all scholars agreed in this case. It is nothing knew. Leszek Jańczuk ( talk) 01:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
- Good copy edit work. By the way, number of 4 000 000 was estimated by Tischendorf, and no other scholarch tried do the same after him. Leszek Jańczuk ( talk) 04:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I've removed your prod tag. I created that redirect since there were multiple examples of this incorrect name being used apparently accidentally. As I discussed in the edit summary that created the redirect one example is this article. JoshuaZ ( talk) 22:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- I agree. It does read pretty strangely. The oddest thing is that most of the people using the incorrect title seem to be sources like that I linked to above which one would think would be more likely to be sympathetic to the movie. Given that the incorrect title seems to almost sound like a dig at the movie it is quite puzzling. JoshuaZ ( talk) 15:41, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't see any compelling reason to make it a soft-redirect but don't have any objection either. JoshuaZ ( talk) 16:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- Just so people realize that it's an incorrect title. Jchthys ( talk) 16:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- But we do that all the time with redirects anyways. Typos as well as common nicknames are routine for redirects. If someone for example writes the common misspelling [[[Machiaveli]] they get redirected to Niccolò Machiavelli. The existence of a redirect tells them that the title is wrong. JoshuaZ ( talk) 17:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- Note: Wikipedia:Soft redirect gives many reasons for using one, and "to let people know they have the wrong title/spelling" is not one of them. Its almost always for cross-project redirects. KillerChihuahua ?!? 18:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Q.E.D.
I have no difficulty with the disambiguation page. I just thought it was unsuitable to add my common use bit there since there are so many diffent meanings it would make little sense there.
I agree with you in principle that things should be to be taken to discussion, in practice I find (and Q.E.D is an example) that nothing happens if you put it to discussion, and then immediately things do when you edit something. So, I tend to just Be Bold and edit, intending always not to trample other editors' contributions, rather than discuss them, which in practice gets nowhere.
Of course that varies between articles. Some are very busy, some quiet; in the busier ones there may actually be an active discussion, and if so I will use it.
I have added some more changes to Q.E.D. I should be happy if you cast your eye over them. Although I do try to check very carefully, inevitably typing mistakes etc. creep in.
Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 19:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- BTW "Reliable sources must be cited". This is obviously not true, it is a destination not a journey. I think it better to go along that journey; if every article had to be perfect at its first attempt, Wikipedia wouldn't exist. Obviously one doesn't like those that derail the train, but to let it go on its journey is OK. Just my opinion. SimonTrew ( talk) 19:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- If you look at previous revisions of the page, it appears that there used to be an entire section about jokes, such as ‘Quite Easily Done’, ‘Quite Enough, Doofus’, etc. It got out of hand, and one editor completely removed such non-technical references. I restored a brief remark mentioning such uses, but the editor claimed that instances of Q.E.D. being claimed as coming from ‘Quite Easily Done’ is not acceptable. However, I do think there is a legitimate place for these non-scientific uses; in fact, Q.E.D. appears to be rarely used nowadays. ¶ For your information, I believe that Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood has Friar Tuck using Q.E.D. after a pseudo-logical argument, like argal in Hamlet. — Jch thys 23:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe, but I didn't do that. I added a brief sentence, linking several other articles together, to say the expression was in common parlance to mean "done". I admit I didn't cite— one can only do so much at once, I was hurrying around trying to stretch a whole set of articles together into a coherent whole. I don't think that is the same as putting in joke definitions. If you haven't heard it used in speech, that's your opinion and needs discussion, it is quite common in my field-- to the extent people that wouldn't know what it means use it. That perhaps means it should be a separate page, but the way people use it is closest to the mathematical definiton than any other on Wikipedia. Best wishes SimonTrew ( talk) 00:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- As I wrote on the talk page of the article, I hear joke definitions and other non-technical usage more often than the ‘correct’ usage. I think I have heard it in speech. I hope you can manage to further contribute to the article. — Jch thys 02:30, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Can we please take this to discussion on the main Q.E.D. discussion because frankly I regard your last edit as vandalism and you have not had the courtesy to reply here. SimonTrew ( talk) 03:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Oh dear me I was editing several articles at once, and that is always fatal to me. I must apologise. I still dislike your edit but I shouldn't have been so bad about it-- another I had to be. Please excuse me. SimonTrew ( talk) 03:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- I’m missing something—which edit was that? I don’t see an edit of mine that you reverted. — Jch thys 15:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- I didn't revert it, though I was sorely tempted at the time being in rather a foul mood. For that, again, I apologise. SimonTrew ( talk) 15:29, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. Was it the one where I wrote that ‘Q.E.D. thus completes the proof’? — Jch thys 15:44, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter
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From the Editor
Welcome to the August 2013 issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. We focus on the historical Jesus and reflect on the last month.
The project has another featured picture, The ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a digitisation of an oil-on-canvas painting. Our top-importance article, Jesus, has been nominated for Featured Article status, the discussion can be seen here; Knights of Colombus has also been nominated as a FAC.
Ecgbert (bishop) and Church architecture in Scotland have both this month achieved Good Article status.
Our project had several of its articles featured in the main page DYK section, including Hinckley Priory, Little Chapel, St Peter's Church, Ropsley, Chip Ingram, St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen, Great George Street Congregational Church, St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill and Bunge church.
Our thanks go to all of those who have worked to achieve these article milestones.
Church of the month
This image, of Maillezais Cathedral and created by Selbymay was this month promoted to featured picture status.
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What was Jesus like? What did he preach? Did he claim to be the Messiah? Did he predict an apocalypse? What can we know about him outside a religious context? The Historical Jesus article discusses what can be known about Jesus with various degrees of probability. While scholars agree on the over all flow and outline of Jesus' life (his baptism by John, debated Jewish authorities, healings, and his crucifixion by Pilate) they have built various and diverging portraits of the rest of his life. These range from minimalist portraits that accept very little of the gospel accounts to maximalists who accept most of the accounts as historical.
The portraits of Jesus have at times been unwitting reflections of the researchers themselves, and Crossan once quipped that some authors "do autobiography and call it biography". However, the study of historical Jesus has made one thing clear: there is so much to learn about Jesus that the more one looks, the more there is to discover.
From the bookshelf
In this book Maurice Casey not only draws on his special expertise in the Aramaic traditions and the Q source, but provides a comprehensive review of the various approaches to the historical Jesus.
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Belated Happy Easter and Kalo Pascha! We're excited to announce the return of our newsletter Ichthus! Getting this issue out was touch-and-go for a while. Check out what's happening at the Project:
- There was a lively discussion about the Easter Did You Know nomination Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- RFC at Knights of Columbus regarding a question about having Prop 8 in the lead
- In anticipation of being nominated for Featured article, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was put up for Peer Review by Ltwin
- The death of Billy Graham on February 21 was a profound loss for many. For the Wikipedia reaction see this discussion. Graham received a blurb.
- And... Order of Friars Minor--nominated by Chicbyaccident--is still waiting for a GA reviewer. Please help out if you can.
Achievements
In March the Project saw four articles promoted to GA-Class. They were the oh-so-irresistible Delilah (nom. MagicatthemovieS) (pictured), Edict of Torda (nom. Borsoka), David Meade (author) (nom. LovelyGirl7) and last but not least Black Christmas (2006 film) (nom. Drown_Soda). Black Christmas? How did that get in there lol? Congratulations to all of the nominators for a job well done!
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... that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?"
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Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–33 AD) is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah of the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that a historical Jesus existed, although there is little agreement on the reliability of the gospel narratives and how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the historical Jesus. Most scholars agree that Jesus was a Jewish preacher from Galilee, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. Christians generally believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, performed miracles, founded the Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from which he will return. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three Persons of a Divine Trinity. A few Christian groups reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. In Islam, Jesus is considered one of God's important prophets and the Messiah. ( Full article...)
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The question of whether to delete all portals--including the 27 Christianity-related portals--was put to the Wikipedia community. Approximately 400 editors have participated in the protracted discussion. Going by !votes, Oppose deletion has a distinct majority. The original Christianity Portal was created on November 5, 2005 by Brisvegas and the following year he successfully nominated the portal for Featured Portal. The Transhumanist has revived WikiProject Portals with hopes of revitalizing Wikipedia's system of 1,515 portals.
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Achievements
Four articles in the Project were promoted to GA: Edict of Torda nom. by Borsoka, Jim Bakker nom. by LovelyGirl7, Ralph Abernathy nom. by Coffee and Psalm 84 nom. by Gerda_Arendt. The Psalm ends with "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Words to live by. Please support our members and send some WikiLove to the nominators!
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Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of the rainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known as the Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence, both against their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Protestants to evangelize the Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 2, 1956, the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts culminated on January 8, 1956, when all five— Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006, was the subject of the film production End of the Spear. ( more...)
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Here are discussions relevant to the Project:
- Liberty University has an RFC regarding the university's relationship with President Trump; see discussion
- Is Genesis History? has an RFC regarding acceptability of movie reviews for inclusion; see discussion
- United States pro-life movement has a requested move to United States anti-abortion movement; see discussion
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... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
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The Mortara case was a controversy precipitated by the Papal States' seizure of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish child, from his family in Bologna, Italy, in 1858. The city's inquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard from a servant that she had administered emergency baptism to the boy when he fell sick as an infant, and the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held that this made the child irrevocably a Catholic. Because the Papal States had forbidden the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it was ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church. After visits from the child's father, international protests mounted, but Pope Pius IX would not be moved. The boy grew up as a Catholic with the Pope as a substitute father, trained for the priesthood in Rome until 1870, and was ordained in France three years later. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome during the unification of Italy, ending the pontifical state; opposition across Italy, Europe and the United States over Mortara's treatment may have contributed to its downfall. ( Full article...)
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The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
- Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
- Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
- Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
- Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
- Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"
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List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.
Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages raging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. In the UK in 2015, the general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Between one and three percent of people from both countries thought the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion. ( more...)
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I noticed you did some work on Hearing (person). I'm just letting you know that I have proposed this article for deletion. CircleGirl ( talk) 21:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
- Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is " Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written " Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
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Martin Luther King Jr. –" There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single " Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a
Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of
Cork,
Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to
Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the
Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of
Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene.
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- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is " Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written " Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia – was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1669, she translated the Colloquy of Christ by Carthusian monk Lanspergius from Spanish into Italian.
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
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Bob Dylan – American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist. " Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
- Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single " Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
... that The Vision of Dorotheus is one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry?
When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the spouse that God has planned for them.
The book is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters. Each chapter is written from the perspective of one of the two authors; nine are by Eric, while Leslie wrote seven, as well as the introduction. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's
relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly
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If you don't want some of these colors to work, just remove the <span style="color:...">...</span> markup you don't want.
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Dolly Parton - an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in
country music.
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- Harriet Tubman - an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and made some missions to rescue enslaved people, using the network of antislavery activists and Underground Railroads. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout, spy for the Union Army.
- Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is " Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written " Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
- ... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
- ... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a
novella by
Charles Dickens, first published in London by
Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by
John Leech. The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "
staves". A Christmas Carol recounts the story of
Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly
miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner
Jacob Marley and the spirits of
Christmas Past,
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- Pope Benedict XVI – retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation.
- Pope Francis – the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
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Dolly Parton – an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in
country music.
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- ...that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
- ...that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
- ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme " Oranges and Lemons"?
- ...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?
A Song for Simeon, is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is
one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the
Ariel poems series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by
Faber and Gwyer. "A Song for Simeon" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by
avant garde artist
Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poem's narrative echoes the text of the
Nunc dimittis, a liturgical prayer for
Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers
Lancelot Andrewes,
Dante Alighieri and
St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of
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