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Do you recognize this man?  This of course is the image on the famous Shroud of Turin, perhaps at this juncture the most famous Christian relic of all.  But is it Jesus?  Medical experts have examined the Shroud in detail and shown how the wounds, the trajectory of blood flow and the like are anatomically…

One of the real problems in Biblical scholarship is that it is too often an armchair profession.  Biblical scholars sit in their chairs and study and write. This is good as far as a it goes, but if you don’t go and do some field work, you are bound to make mistakes. By this I…

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  Imagination, that restless ghost Will not stop haunting me, Will not stop hunting me, Or leave me in peace.   Its voice is insistent Persistent Consistent Resistent To my lethargy.   Like rain beating On my window Sometimes just tapping Sometimes rapping Sometimes loudly banging, Never ceasing.   Why does it nag me so?…

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John and Charles could never have imagined it, but a student at Drew University has stolen various letters from the Methodist Archives, including some of Wesleys own original letters, and tried to sell them in the U.K. for major money.  Here is a link to the story on   CNN—- http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/19/fbi.methodist.archives.theft/?hpt=Sbin. A student named William Scott,…

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