#Traditions

I heard Burning Bibles is trending. So I figured that this would be good time to talk freedoms. A thread.First, let's talk about an important distinction: Freedom-to and Freedom-from. Freedom-to
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Great joy for the community at Downside followed by great sadness. The community has announced that it will be searching for a new home. The Abbey, one of only three
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Morgan’s weird dreams, a thread While I was meeting with a lawyer of marital issues in the middle of October, someone stole my skis and hid them in a construction
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Thread: Boris Johnson has just awarded his friend David Ross, the Carphone Warehouse owner worth ÂŁ700 million, ÂŁ85k for a private opera company in his house from the funds designated
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So ends another few days of over-romanticised drivel about FA Cup.The reason the FA Cup has gone wrong is because of the FA’s incompetence & envy of Premier League’s commercial
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For the first time in my career, this semester I taught on the philosophy of liturgy. It did not go as planned: I was teaching about community, rituals, and the
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I can’t wait for the day people begin seeing the world and humanity as they are, instead of seeing them through the information filters @Facebook & @Twitter have created. It
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1. The resurrection is important b/c God’s power through Christ destroyed the bondages of sin. Christ returning proved that and paved the way for Christians to do the same. 2.
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THREAD.An analysis of Drake's Arabic lyrics in his Only You Freestyle from the perspective of Palestinian national liberation. Drake calls upon poetic traditions to speak about the beauty of freedom
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Oh boy.I feel like there's an essay somewhere in all this for the modern food historian ready to write it. I have absolutely no time for that kind of project,
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The ninth-century Persian historian Al-Baladhuri tells us that when Alexandria fell to the Arabs in AD 642, “some of the Greek inhabitants left to join the Greeks somewhere else.” This “somewhere else” was
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The public psyche is constructed in education, so from childhood in for the past 180 years we have been instructed to recognise everything that falls outside of whiteness as supernatural
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Just thinking about how Indigenous Nations in North American had complex political confederacies and highly skilled agricultural traditions and economies before contact but American schools teach these concepts as brought
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I will be hot take hondu today. Le thread. Also its MY OPINION1.Twitter is not real life. In twitter everyone can see what you do. Even the people you may
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A thread on Jewish incantations, rituals, and anxieties, related to memory in late antiquity and the early medieval period. 1/24 There were two main incantations for improved memory and learning
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The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel (2007)by Israel Finkelstein & Amihai Mazar(Book Thread)https://archive.org/details/thequestforthehistoricalisrael.debatingarchaeologyandthehistoryofearlyisr
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