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The Jesus' Wife Papyrus
The second paragraph under your first subheading, The document, contains the observation that "The document the papyrus is a fragment the size of a business card, originally found in the Egyptian desert among a dump of ancient fragments, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2023
How Can Christians Explain Their Faith to Muslims?
The article Was Jesus a Buddhist? by James M. Hanson appeared in volume 25 of Buddhist-Christian Studies through University of Hawai'i Press in 2005.
The author argues that Buddhism and Zoroastrianism influenced Jesus and early Christian and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2023
Pelagius: a sadly traduced theologian
Your first subheading, The protagonists, contains, in its third paragraph, the observation that "there were Christians in Ireland before Patrick, mainly in the south, where there was a form of Christianity that owed much to Egypt; but there were ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2023
Walking the Long Mynd
It's interesting that one place in Wales is called Long Mountain and the other Long Mynd.
What would the name be if it were totally in Welsh instead of half English, half Welsh?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2023
Pilate
Your first subheading, The problem, contains in its sole paragraph the rumination that "Pilate has always intrigued me, but I have never known how to approach him. I toyed with a novel, but could not get it right. Do I approach him through the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2023
Humble by Nature: review and reflections
The purchases were in the same area, MoNmouthshire, in the Wye Valley, South Wales.
frankbeswick, on 03/03/2023
Humble by Nature: review and reflections
The last paragraph under the first subheading, The author, explains that "Originally Kate and Ludo, her husband, took up a a few acres to farm while they continued their busy careers in broadcasting. But then they fell for a small farm that was ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/02/2023
Rotating your crops
It was the norm for Ireland, but England used cash.
frankbeswick, on 03/02/2023
Rotating your crops
The first heading, The need for rotation, notes that the Irish grew corn to pay rent.
Was corn the only way of paying rent, and was that the norm throughout what now is the United Kingdom?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/02/2023
The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences: a review
She did not encounter anyone who met a dark entity, but who would admit to it.
frankbeswick, on 03/02/2023
English Surnames
Family names predate where they live. Thus Washings predate Washington. When the Angles came to Britain they retained their clan names, all of which ended in Ing, but some of them developed new names without ing. Thus the the clan structure ...
frankbeswick, on 03/02/2023
Organic Cultivation
No specific plant stands out. I have advised my son to put woodchip mulch around his fruit trees. He has his own allotment now , the young men take over from the old, and I help with funding and advice. He does not need my advice with fruit, ...
frankbeswick, on 03/02/2023
The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences: a review
This may not be an authoritative source, but somewhere online there were some entries about Lazarus syndrome and near-death experience survivors who talked about dark beings.
Was that possibility discussed in the Sartori book?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/02/2023
Did St Paul invent Christianity?
This has been Christian tradition,but I suspectbthat it was the beloved disciple.
frankbeswick, on 03/02/2023
The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
The next-to-last paragraph intrigues me about Foel Grach.
There may be other questions after I muster my way through online sources about Bronze Age peoples.
But, for the time being and not at all facetiously, I mull what the 14 peaks blog ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/02/2023