Samaritan

"Food waste is like the band Rascal Flatts: It can fill a surprising number of football stadiums, even though many people consider it complete garbage," said John Oliver. In the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste (HBO), John Oliver discusses how much food Americans waste. He expresses how he is appalled and disgusted at the amount of food being wasted for various unacceptable reasons. Oliver makes a point to say that it’s not only affecting the hungry, but also the producers,…

This book is made up of a collection of fictional letters that was affiliated with Antipas. Antipas was the martyr that was cited in Revelation 2:13, “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to my name, and did not deny my faith even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.” In the beginning, Antipas was an elite Roman citizen who fought to maintain and continue to enhance his position in his…

I am certain that everyone can name numerous fairy tales. The most popular ones such as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Beauty and the Beast” are well known among the young and the elderly with a slight difference due to the various versions. The fairy tales that the elderly know are generally dark and disturbing while the most recent ones are happy and fantasy like. They attract more the little girls who want to be pretty princesses. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë does not seem to…

In the film Dive!, Jeremy Seifert brings awareness about the amount of food waste in America by filming his lifestyle choice to dumpster dive. Jeremy Seifert both protagonist and director, along with his family and friends explain why they choose to dumpster dive. Not only do they discuss their lifestyle choices, they also try to have grocery stores and food banks work together to combat hunger. This film had good intentions to bring awareness to the amount of food waste there is in America;…

In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman compared the public discourse between before and after telegraph invention, he suggested the telegraph altered the very nature of social and personal discourse in American culture."The telegraph made a three-pronged attack on typography 's definition of discourse, introducing on a large scale irrelevance, impotence, and in coherence.”Said in The Peek-a-Boo World chapter. The author believed modern technology from telegraph to television, makes…

everyone wrestles with, such as morality and meaning, that this would assist reaching people via the creation of a neutral ground (para.45). Therefore, just as Jesus met a person where they were at in their lives without domineering force, such as the Samaritan woman at the well, I too believe that being gentle and relatable would be more advantageous in sharing the Good News. Kenrick et al. (2015) proposed some notions about the adjustment of attitudes which, were in agreement with Wade’s…

The study of religious missions and the methods and their purposes are being revealed in the Christianity of the early church. As I was studying this subject the words of Isaiah 53:7-8 began to resonate in my heart. In this we see Jesus’ sacrifice and the martyrdom of the disciples of Jesus Christ that reveals the missiology of Christianity in the early church. Opened not His mouth speaks of the Servant’s willingness to die for sinners; it also marks His dignity and authority as a lamb to the…

Feminism’s hidden identity in the Bible is a strong point to be made as a result of those who lead, ruled, and respected women as an important and equal aspect of society. Despite its reputation for being patriarchal, the Bible contains powerful portrayals of women. Jesus himself treated women with respect. It is argued that because of Eve being created from Adam, women were destined to be lesser, always depending on men. Yet there are a multitude of stories in the bible that do not treat women…

Last time we study together, you acknowledged that you were saved before baptism, but then, after we examined carefully the teaching of Acts 2:22-47, you and your wife came to the conclusion that the way you were saved is not in accordance with what Acts 2 teaches. You even acknowledged the fact that your sins had not been forgiven, because you did not obey the Gospel of Christ the way the Jews obeyed it in this passage. I went ahead and asked you whether you wanted to obey the Gospel the right…

In Landau’s book, The Fundamentals of Ethics, Chapter seven focuses on psychological egoism. The backbone of this theory is that all human actions are driven by human’s egotistical desires. Landau defends this theory by stating, “Psychological egoism is a theory about human motivation: it tells us that our only motivation is to make ourselves better off.” (Landau 106) This means in order for someone to adopt this theory they must believe that even trivial events that seem very altruistic are…