Prologue of Assurance in Luke

Can Luke teach us how to start again, to have faith in uncertain times? It seems we've spent a lifetime trying, becoming conscious, becoming developmentally appropriate. Could we start again, as Jesus Christ Superstar asks? As some of us had seen the Jesus Christ Superstar show the night before, the question of how such a radical critique and low Christology still evokes faith came up. It makes people ask who Jesus really was, past church dogma and the overemphasis on Christ's divinity. His humanity makes him more accessible. But the play is possibly docetic in how it portrayed Jesus too

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Who Was Mary Shelley?

GIVEN HER FAMILY legacy, it seemed inevitable that Mary Shelley was to make a significant contribution to . Both her parents were influential authors and propagandists for their respective causes of feminism and radical liberalism. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a leader in the early feminist movement and wrote a classic entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), still read in women's studies classes today. Mary's father, William Godwin, published a political treatise entitled Enquiry Concerning Political Justice in 1793. His goal was to translate the insights of the French Enlightenment into an English context. Mary

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