Ergebnis für "In Hiding" in Religiöse Studien

In Part I, I dive into Adventist doctrines about the nature of death, the nature of man, the intermediate state, annihilation, and the final punishment of the unsaved. Adventism subscribes to the doctrine of soul sleep, the nonexistence of an immaterial, conscious human spirit that survives the death of the body, and annihilation of the unsaved in the final judgement.

Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive World War II.

Leaving Islam for Christianity cost her more than she imagined, but gave more than she could have dreamed. Rifqa Bary grew up in a devout Muslim home, obediently following her parents’ orders to practice the rituals of Islam. But God was calling her to freedom and love. He was calling her to...

Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller. Born in a large Orthodox Jewish family in Dereczyn, Poland, Sarah's family moved to Paris in 1937 to escape poverty.

The German Occupation of France just three years later threatened her family's existence with repressive anti-Jewish laws and massive deportations of Jews to death camps.

I chatted with a homeless at the redlight that they were a blessing for reminding us of world brokenness, amid plenty. He told me that the Messiah was just around the corner coming to fix things. But is the Messiah a person, uppercase M, or is the messiah a text, lowercase m? If it’s messiah text, then there’s no need to wait since it’s always been there hiding in plain view longing to be noticed. If it’s Messiah person, then we'll have to wait.