Christian – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:27:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Christian – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Saint Valentine, Christian Martyr in Ancient Rome https://brewminate.com/saint-valentine-christian-martyr-in-ancient-rome/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:08:58 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=146739 Saint Valentine is commemorated in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Churches on February 14. Introduction Saint Valentine

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]]> Ancient Christian Thinkers and Their Case for Slavery Reparations https://brewminate.com/ancient-christian-thinkers-and-their-case-for-slavery-reparations/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:06:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=153452 The biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of reparations after enslavement.

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]]> A History of the Christian Concept of Human Sexuality as Sin https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-the-christian-concept-of-human-sexuality-as-sin/ Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:01:09 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=166817 Christianity followed an old pattern when it developed its own rules of behavior for “the Christian life.” Introduction

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]]> The Christian Legal Army behind the Assault on Abortion Rights in Mississippi https://brewminate.com/the-christian-legal-army-behind-the-assault-on-abortion-rights-in-mississippi/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:01:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=166373 The Alliance Defending Freedom has been laying the groundwork to end legal abortion for years. But that’s just

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]]> Harald Bluetooth and the Christian Conversion of Early Medieval Denmark https://brewminate.com/harald-bluetooth-and-the-christian-conversion-of-early-medieval-denmark/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:01:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=152980 The Chronicle of Widukind, from around 970, relates how Harald ordered the rejection of the old gods. By

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]]> Women in the Christian New Testament https://brewminate.com/women-in-the-christian-new-testament/ Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:11:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163966 Women are presented for the most part using both Jewish and Graeco-Roman concepts of the social construction of

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]]> An Historic Examination of the Letters of Paul to the Gentiles https://brewminate.com/an-historic-examination-of-the-letters-of-paul-to-the-gentiles/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:19:38 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163196 We understand these letters to be circumstantial. They were not written as systematic theology or as treatises on

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]]> Pliny the Younger: An Outsider’s View of Early Christianity in the Roman Empire https://brewminate.com/pliny-the-younger-an-outsiders-view-of-early-christianity-in-the-roman-empire/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:19:10 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163210 Pliny’s letter to Trajan is significant as one of the earliest descriptions of the Christian movement from an

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]]> Death Cult Christians: Going Home to the Lord Is Better Than a Mask or Vaccine https://brewminate.com/death-cult-christians-going-home-to-the-lord-is-better-than-a-mask-or-vaccine/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:18:56 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=163215 God has entered the lunatic picture. And lo, the permutations of anti-mask/vax/reason/science crackpottery have been many, from world-wide hoax

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]]> The Four Great Awakenings: Transformations in American Christian History https://brewminate.com/the-four-great-awakenings-in-american-christian-history/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:15:38 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=162532 The ‘Awakenings’ all resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt, their sin, and

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