Entries by Bernt Hillesland
How to live well, and book recommendations
by Bernt Hillesland What is this Christianity thing? As Larry Hurtado points out in his book, Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World, to some Romans it seemed less like a religion – with a focus on ritual obligations – and more a philosophy, where the focus was on how to […]
Immigration, Ammparo and ways to help
by John Allured In the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016, 530,250 individuals were apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security: of those, 59,757 were unaccompanied children (“UAC”) and 77,857 were family units. This was just one of several years in which large numbers of persons have fled violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras […]
