Evangelicals Seek Detente With Mideast Muslim Leaders As Critics Doubt Motives : NPR
In recent months, evangelical Christian leaders have been traveling to the Middle East to meet with rulers of Islamic countries and with Muslim clergy.The participants say the meetings — especially one they had in November with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — are unprecedented, and aimed at promoting religious freedom in the region.Johnnie Moore, […]
American Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup – The New York Times
Is the world ready for another Great Schism? Source: American Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup – The New York Times
What Is a Helpmeet?
What is a helpmeet? Or, for that matter, what is a helpmate? According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “helpmate” is “altered from helpmeet.” It is called a “ghost word, from the Biblical translation of Latin adjutoriumsimile sibi [Gen. ii:18] as ‘an help meet (i.e. fit) for him’ (Hebrew ‘ezer keneghdo ), which already by 1673 […]