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2 days ago · Myth #10: Women who wear headcoverings should not wear pants. This myth is taught by most denominational church groups who teach that Christian women should cover their heads. We, as Christians, are no longer under the Old Covenant Law, the Law of Moses, but under the commands that Jesus gives us in the New Testament.
5 days ago · The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9780198702566; 448pp.; Price: £75.00. As Hugh Thomas points out in his introduction to The Secular Clergy in England, the secular clergy of medieval England are an unjustly neglected group.
2 days ago · During the time of the parliament 7 Hen. VIII. the Abbot of Winchcombe, in a sermon at Paul's Cross, declared that the act 4 Hen. VIII., by which murderers, robbers of churches, and housebreakers, were deprived of their clergy unless they were in holy orders, was against the law of God and the liberties of the Church; that all the Lords who ...
5 days ago · Parishioners were similarly varied. In theory, every adult was supposed to attend church on Sundays and on feast days. For millions of medieval people, regular churchgoing must have been an important part of their daily lives, and all the main events in their lives, from cradle to grave, were accompanied by religious rituals.
4 days ago · The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century. London, I. B. Tauris, 2011, ISBN: 9781845114404; 240pp.; Price: £24.50. David Hempton’s latest book is the best, most authoritative, and most imaginative overview of the history of the world-wide Christian Church in the period between the late 17th and early 19th centuries we have to date.
5 days ago · Dr. Molly Ayn Jones-Lewis is a historian of ancient Greek and Roman medicine who teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She lives in a quiet corner of Baltimore with her spouse Rob, her son Jimmy, and her cats Tethys, Cato, and Juba. She likes bright colors, making textiles, and reading past her bedtime.
4 days ago · Though the schools received benefactions from many sources amongst the clergy and the gentry in the city, they were chiefly the work of the corporation. The boys' school was intended to board and educate 40 boys who were either orphans or the sons of poor freemen, and the girls' school made much the same provision. In the first half of the ...
