Mark’s Blog

           Myrtie Howell was a devoted Christian woman who had lived a hard life.  He family was very poor.  When she was 10, she quit school and went to work in a steel mill for 10 cents a day.  She married at age 17, then in early 1940, he husband was killed in an accident.  [...]

            I intend now at long last to finish my review / summary / reflection of Martin Hengel’s book Crucifixion.
            In chapter 10, Hengel lists references to crucifixion in the Greek-speaking (East) world of Biblical times, after having done the same in previous chapters with the Latin-speaking (West) world.  Among the prominent Greeks mentioned who [...]

 
 
            Jeremiah 19:3-9
 
            You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. 4 Because the people [...]

A Christmas Letter from Our Lord to His children:   It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the Season.  Maybe you’ve forgotten that I wasn’t actually born during this time of the year, and that it was some of your predecessors who [...]

Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1933-1945
The information and quotes in this timeline is from the book Inside the Vicious Heart written by Robert H. Abzug.
1933 – American newspapers and magazines reported the existence of concentration camps in early 1933, when Dachau first slammed its gate shut on a group of Communists and other [...]