by Reinder Bruinsma | 7 December 2018 | For a few weeks the supermarket close to the apartment building where we live is open on Sundays. Sunday shopping has long been a hotly debated issue in local politics. Until recently the influence of the religious parties was strong enough to frustrate the attempts by the […]
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“If They Would Only Enter My Rest”: The Fascinating Logic of Hebrews 4
by Steven Siciliano, 16 November 2017 “Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because […]
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Goalkeeper Stuns Brazil Soccer by Refusing to Play on Sabbath
From ANN, January 29, 2016: An up-and-coming soccer goalkeeper has surprised Brazil’s sporting community by announcing that he will no longer play matches scheduled from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Carlos Vítor da Costa Ressurreição, 30, who was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist denomination last month, told reporters about his decision a few days […]