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Today, a senate is the upper house of a bicameral legislature. When the American states redid their constitutions in 1775, they patterned their state government like the British Parliament: A lower house for the commoners, and an upper house for the upper class, like the House of Lords. Americans don’t have nobles, but we do have an upper class, and that’s what the...

Upon finally reappearing to Ahab ben Omri, king of Ephraim, Elijah instructed the king to gather 850 of his Baalist prophets, plus the people of Israel, at Mt. Karmél. I have no idea how many of Ahab’s subjects actually showed up for this; absolute monarch or not, some of ’em may have found the trip impossible. But enough of them showed.

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When I was a kid I memorized this verse. Helped a lot that musician Dan Whittemore has a song about it, which he play...

When I talk about people who don’t expect God to answer, I’m not necessarily speaking of hypocrites. There are those.

Hypocrites would be the people who offer prayers instead of help; those who wish people to be warm and well fed but won’t offer clothes and food. Jm 2.15-16 Or politicians offer “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting, instead of writin...

In Mark we only see John the baptist’s appearance, plus the obligatory reference to that Isaiah passage about preparing the Lord’s way and making his paths straight. Is 40.3 In the other synoptic gospels we see the same thing… plus a bit where John rebukes some of the people who aren’t all that repentant; who’ve come to t...