Reading and understanding (Sunday III of Ordered time)

“Historically, in the time of Ezra and from the time before the destruction of King Solomon’s Temple, the Jewish people had been scattered throughout the known world. Wherever they went, they already began to establish what we would recognise as synagogues…”

Reading through S. Paul’s letter to the Colossians

This is a rather short letter and thankfully without any sign of the politics that had arisen in several of the other churches of the time, such as those of the Galatians and the Corinthians, because of other Christian missionaries presenting a rivalry to Paul’s message with their attempts to initiate the new gentile ChristiansContinue reading “Reading through S. Paul’s letter to the Colossians”