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Cold-Case Christianity

Don’t Forget! Your Credo is Due Today! Please submit it (either by Homework Drop or email) by no later than 11:59pm. If it is late, unless you have a tremendous excuse, it will be counted as a zero. As we end the school year and you are entering high school,…

Final Zoom Call

What will things look like in 3000 AD if history continues on the same pace it has kept since 1000 AD? How will history remember the Coronavirus? Join me for a final Zoom call at 10:30 AM. [zoom_api_link meeting_id=”93186099703″ link_only=”no”]

Divided Nation

Today’s reading will be from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley pages 476-481. You can download it by clicking on this link or read it right here within the site. After reading, please leave a comment below. What do you think about the individual nature of Church?…

Fall of Rome

Read “The Book of the Ancient Romans,” Chapter 24: The Fall of Rome from page 423-430. Leave a comment below (at least three sentences) about the reading. Please note that information from this day’s reading will be on the reading assignment tomorrow.

Truth in Love

Don’t Forget! Your Credo is Due Tomorrow! Feel free to submit it early (either by Homework Drop or email), but it will be due on Friday no later than 11:59pm. If it is late, unless you have a tremendous excuse, it will be counted as a zero. As we end…

Globalization and Terrorism

A long, long time ago in a magical world called 2008, there was a terrible economic crisis that happened because lots of people got really greedy and no one stopped them until it was too late. There was a housing bubble, there was speculation and predatory lending, there was a…

Politics as a Noble Calling

Today’s reading will be from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley pages 470-476. You can download it by clicking on this link or read it right here within the site. After reading, please leave a comment below. Do you think that Christians make good politicians? Why or…

Issues in the Middle East

Many Americans when they begin to hear the countries of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc. thrown around the image in their mind is just a blurry mess in between Europe and China. So don’t feel bad if that is where you are. I think this is a…

Rise of a New Christendom

Read The Story of Christianity chapter “The 20th to the 21st Century: The Rise of a New Christendom” on pages 336-343. And answer the reading comprehension questions below. In the comments, I’d love to hear what you think about denominations. Do they matter? Was it inevitable that Christianity would splinter…

Credo Helps Call

You don’t have to join this call, but I will be on Zoom to provide help to anyone working on their Credo. Ask me questions, get feedback, etc. Join Optional Zoom at 11:15am [zoom_api_link meeting_id=”96304576001″ link_only=”no”]

Civilizer of the World

Read Book of the Ancient Romans, The second half of Chapter 22: The Civilization of the Roman Empire from page 405-412. Answer the reading questions below. Some answers will be found in yesterday’s reading as well.

History and Future of the Internet

Without a doubt, the most influential innovation of the second half of the 20th century was the internet. So much of our modern world is powered by this tool, but many of you don’t know where this technology came from. As long as you are stocked up on cat memes…

Riddles

Don’t Forget! Your Credo Paper is due on Friday! If you are done with it, go ahead and turn it in through Homework drop or email. I will not accept papers submitted after 11:59pm on Friday 5/15. So please make sure that you are working on it this week. I…

Conqueror and Ruler of the World

Read The Book of the Ancient Romans, The first half of Chapter 22: “The Civilization of the Roman Empire” from page 399-404. Leave a comment below on your reading of at least three sentences. Also, there will be a short reading comprehension assignment tomorrow that covers the entire chapter.

Soviet Collapse and European Union

On Christmas Day 1991, Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev announced to the world in his farewell speech, “We’re now living in a new world. And end has been put to the cold war and to the arms race, as well as to the mad militarization of the country, which has…

Four Views

As we saw earlier this week, we as Christians don’t get the main portion of our beliefs about the second coming of Christ from that sometimes cryptic book at the back of our Bibles. Rather, we allow the whole counsel of God’s word to teach us and we learned from…

Conservative or Liberal

As the 1970s came to a close, it was easy to see that the world particularly the Middle-East was on the verge of war again and America was struggling to maintain its image as the paragon of freedom and prosperity. Many had become disillusioned by the wars, protests, and political…

Jesus on the Second Coming

Like I said yesterday, there are a lot of people who get their picture of what is going to happen at Jesus’ second coming from the somewhat cryptic book at the end of our Bibles. However, Jesus spoke on numerous occasions about his second coming and I think we should…

Reagan Conservatism

The decades following World War 2 served to deepen the divide between the left and the right in America as government grew rapidly during the 1940s and 50s then people saw that sometimes government gets corrupted or fails to so they started to push against it in the 60s and…