Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne My rowing mate shows me his collection of chism and he’s telling me a perception of Christianity I’ve been critical of from time to time, but in my own constant devotion to the simple Jesus love, I’ve never considered the collection of wealth as the very nature of Christianity.Continue reading “#67.9, Thursday April 17, 2025”
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#67.8, Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne Emil shared with me his notions of Christian baptism. As he explains it, Christians have a strange and lovely greeting for their Norsemen visitors. It seems Christians have three gods and the churches are castles of great wealth. “When you arrive at the Christian castle they anoint you with oil,Continue reading “#67.8, Wednesday, April 16, 2025”
#67.7, Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne This fellow rower, Emil, first scoffing at Christians, is now revealing to me a collection of five chism, which are pure white linen squares used in the anointing of oil, symbol of releasing sin just prior to Christian baptism with water. As a Christian from another time, I happenContinue reading “#67.7, Tuesday, April 15, 2025”
#67.6, Thursday April 10, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne In a Christian world, when Christianity ruled people with authority even over imagination, any ship that could speed against the wind seeming to move faster than the rowers could dip and pull would be called a holy miracle. But in this new time and place, I call “future,” theseContinue reading “#67.6, Thursday April 10, 2025”
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