toward nonsexist Christianity: Phoebe serves or leads?

...James Version of Romans 16:1-2 makes Phoebe sound insignificant: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. Most English translations follow the KJV's lead, but more ...

Poem Number 14

THE TRUTH   Honor becometh the will to do the work of the wise – If only the body did not control what often the will denies.   – H. William Gordon

Ficcy, part deux

... choice, angel.” He flipped through the pages. “I like this one: Dear, why should you command me to my rest, When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this time becometh lovers best ; Night was ordained, together friends to keep. How happy are all other living things, Which through the day disjoin by several flight, The quiet evening yet together brings, And each returns ...

Strength in his hand. “He’s gone. I left him here. ” For the first time since they had started.

... and partialities than by those higher principles and points of duty whereupon the good Colonel Markham Everard hath ever framed his purposes as truly I have endeavoured to form mine that we may all act as becometh good Englishmen and worthy patriots. Then as for Woodstock it is a great thing which the good Colonel asks that it should be taken from the spoil of the godly and left in keeping of the...

The huge doors of the library. And once more Lucifer sat at the table. But He was not reading. He wa

... and partialities than by those higher principles and points of duty whereupon the good Colonel Markham Everard hath ever framed his purposes as truly I have endeavoured to form mine that we may all act as becometh good Englishmen and worthy patriots. Then as for Woodstock it is a great thing which the good Colonel asks that it should be taken from the spoil of the godly and left in keeping of the...

...to look to the second verse then: ~In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array. But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. I Timothy 2:9-10~ Hmm… Still no make- up. Upon pointing this out, I was told that the no make up rule was because of the shamefacedness ...

The Evil Satanic Conspiracy

... the strongest, the smartest, and the most fit to lead. “Consider the Bond of a cold Climate, how it maketh Man a Slave; he must have Shelter and Food with fierce Toil. Yet thereby he becometh strong against the Elements, and his moral Force waxeth, so that he is Master of such Men as live in Lands of Sun where bodily Needs are satisfied without Struggle.” -Aleister Crowley, Liber Aleph cap. 37,...

10 Ways to Lust

... spirit? 4. Don’t read/study the word (bible) Mark 4:19 “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful." Psalm 119:11 “The word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one ...

“A Journey Into the Depth of the Soul”

....                 Yet there was one more message to be delivered under the heroic sails of the ship traveling across one’s soul: “Oh, sweet remembrance, shall thou reveal thyself in this night when all becometh alive with a blessed hope?   Or hast thou been buried for too long under the aging sorrow of life?   Oh, bitter recollection of lost love, shall thou once again wake from thy sleep to...

FUTURE DEVINE DRAFT(POEM)

... MADETH HUMAN LAX LEAN LAZY EFFIGY DIVERGETH SOUL WILL POWER UNTO CRISSCROSS WAYS LEADETH GHOST PENDAMONIUM NO CHARMETH CRAZY THRILLED LIFE FATE QUAKETH INSIPID BLACK&WHITE HOURS MOVETH T'SECOND WORLD BECOMETH WIDOW LACKETH GODFATHER WHOSE OWN ESTATE EARTH PLEASE NATURE PERISHETH ALL SELF ARTS ENTANGLE IMMORAL ORIGINS NO NEXT GO WHAT NOWHAPPEN 10 O'LORD WHY THOU CREATETH GAME HAST STATETH?WHY ...