Author: Max and Sandra Desorgher

It was once believed that after the Church had determined the contents of the canon, all of these additional (non-canonical) texts were abandoned, hidden or destroyed. In “‘Lost Gospels’—Lost No More” in the September/October 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Biblical scholar Tony Burke challenges this assertion." The word “Apocrypha” means “Secret,” but by the… Continue reading Apocrypha were transmitted throughout Christian history

Historian Brian DeLay unearths the forgotten role played by Native Americans in the U.S.–Mexican War. Zones of interethnic conflict in northern Mexico, circa 1844.(Image courtesy of Brian DeLay.) https://clas.berkeley.edu/publications/us-mexican-war-forgotten-foes "Consider the U.S.–Mexican War of 1846 to 1848. Historians on both sides of the border have framed the war as a story about states. They’ve crafted… Continue reading Forgotten Foes — The US-Mexican War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds7nD_QNeKA https://www.learnreligions.com/virgin-marys-miracles-in-guadalupe-mexico-124600 Hearing an Angelic Choir Just before dawn on December 9, 1531, a poor, 57-year-old widower named Juan Diego was walking through the hills outside Tenochtitlan, Mexico (the Guadalupe area that is near modern Mexico City), on his way to attend church. He began hearing music as he walked closer to the base of Tepeyac Hill,… Continue reading The Virgin Mary’s Apparitions and Miracles in Guadalupe, Mexico

https://youtu.be/wTCVh4CXyi0 Ossuary Inscriptions When it comes to the ossuaries found in the Talpiot Tomb, also called the “Tomb of Ten Ossuaries,” there is absolutely no academic dispute concerning the provenance of any of the inscriptions. Nor is there any question as to how they should be read. This is because they were found by card-carrying archaeologists in… Continue reading The Lost Tomb Of Jesus – Archaeology Documentary

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A flood of recent publications has challenged the traditional view of the development of Islam and of the role that it played in the life of the young Muslim community. For example, Yehuda Nevo has argued that paganism and ‘A very simple form of monotheism with Judaeo-Christian overtones’ constituted the religious beliefs of the early… Continue reading religious beliefs of the early Arab elite

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