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President Lincoln began his second address by stating that, during his previous four years in office, his intents had been clearly represented several times, and so his speech wouldn’t be near as long as the first. He told the people that he only strove to further the country’s progress and that he had high hopes for the future, but made no predictions on what it would hold. The largest portion of President Lincoln’s speech addressed the war which was impending during the beginning of his first…

The Army behind The Army Although I have never been in the position of needing others’ help, I have seen fellow classmates be there. The Salvation Army started off as a small evangelistic group trying to get relief to others in multiple areas, but it has now become a household name. Some people rely on this special group to get by, while others rely on them during certain times of the year like Christmas and Thanksgiving. People throughout our local area are to account for the help to be able to…

based as it consisted of two primary Christian religions, Anglicans and Puritanism. The two contributors that had inspired the Great Awakening were known as Jonathon Edwards and George Whitefield. The major goal of the Great Awakening is to spread the word for “Eternal Salvation”. Everyone can reach the afterlife, or Heaven, whether they sin or not. If they believed in God’s grace, they would be able to reach Heaven. This resulted into the Evangelical Christian Movement in the 1720s. The…

Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries?, author Larry Hurtado argues that the idea of a loving God and the promise of eternal life inspired Christians to persevere through all hardships. In a time where life expectancy was low and punishments were brutal, the two points that Hurtado mentions certainly seem promising to a minority that was often unfairly penalized. Although the idea of a loving God surely inspired those to follow Him, the peaceful agenda that Christians promoted…

Flannery O’Connor reflects many different parts of her life into her stories. One main part is her religion. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, Tom T. Shiftlet is clearly a Christ figure. He revives the car, gives Lucynell freedom, is a carpenter, and at the beginning of the story stands like a cross. As Christ did these things Tom T. Shiftlet is obviously a Christ figure. In “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, the grandmother keeps telling the Misfit to be with Jesus and she herself was praying…

extreme or dangerous.” According to this definition I believe that the Westboro Baptist Church is a cult. The Westboro Baptist Church is actually an independent church. Other churches including Baptist churches do not claim them as part of their denomination. “Westboro Baptist Church was established by East Side Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas in 1931, which at the time was a traditionally orthodox mainline Protestant church. Fred Phillips, the leader of Westboro Baptist, become the head…

Elizabeth Burnsed Professor Alexander World Religions Book Report The Mystic Heart The Mystic Heart by Wayne Teasdale is a well written, informative novel that shares a glimpse into greater truths of the universe. This lucid book pursues towards the unearthing of spirituality found at the heart of the world’s religions. The Mystic Heart was first published in 1999 and printed in 2001. Teasdale’s book was published through New World Library. This novel could be considered to be in the genres of…

President Barack Obama speech on " Don't Tell Me Words Don't Matter" inspired me as a young African American male who attends The College of Staten Island to see hope in a different way than it is explained in the dictionary. According to the dictionary, hope means "the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best". But President Obama definition of hope is to " imagine and fight for". For example, President Barack Obama had a dream that everyone in the…

The Piss Christ is a photograph of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion taken by Andres Serrano taken and originally exhibited in 1987. In the photograph, Jesus is dressed in a cloth that covers the lower half of his abdomen to his upper thighs. His arms are outstretched at approximately a forty-five degree angle above his head. His head is tilted downward with his knees slightly bent. His hands and feet are fixed to a cross. The background is dark at the four corners with a red-orange color around Jesus…

Galatians plays a pivotal role in shaping theological understanding as we know it. It has provoked us to rethink about our relationship with God, and to reconsider who really is this God we serve? In this case, Galatians holds such great reverence among Christians in answering these overarching questions, because of Paul’s skillful ability to challenge authority and condemn the Galatians for following under “the desires of the flesh,” rather than living by “the Spirit” (5.16). In…