Saint Patrick's Day is in full swing on Wednesday. Supporters of the long standing St. Patty's tradition are looking forward to participating in various world wide festivals, attending parades, displaying their green, dining on corned beef and cabbage, finding shamrocks, chasing leprechauns and...
Florida Christian College is a four-year higher education institution located in a quiet 40-acre area in Kissimmee, Florida. Founded in 1976 under the name Central Florida Bible College, the school changed its name to Florida Christian College in 1985 during which it also moved to its current...
If you are interested in getting an online education at a Christian college or university, it can help to look at rankings to find the highest quality and best value school. To help you, we've put together following rankings of the best online Christian colleges based on a number of criteria...
This is a list of the most influential Christian thinkers in the world today.
Today is Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday by the United States and Europe. Other countries call Mardi Gras the "Tuesday of Carnival," or Shrove Tuesday. It is the day celebrated by Christians to indulge in excess before Lent and Ash Wednesday occur. The Christian tradition allows for the...
Founded as the Childers’ Classical Institute in 1906 in Abilene, Texas, Abilene Christian University (ACU) is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. It is one of the largest private universities in the southwest consisting of the College of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration,...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
The term "dogma" derives from Greek words meaning "that which seems to one, opinion or belief" and "to think, to suppose, to imagine." Dogma is a code of tenents, core principle, organized belief, or value held by a religion, group, or organization. Dogma is a inarguable, undoubted, established...
With the recent celebration of Mardi Gras - "Fat Tuesday" - the season of Lent is upon us. As Mardi Gras is a celebration of indulgences and feasting, Lent is a period of self-denial and fasting. In the Catholic tradition the observance of Lent was virtually universal. Following the Protestant...
