tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post113077531893677942..comments2024-01-30T02:30:05.862-06:00Comments on Refreshment in Refuge: What about Anna?Refreshment in Refugehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109290647409291383noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post-1132617235481354762005-11-21T17:53:00.000-06:002005-11-21T17:53:00.000-06:00Thanks, Zane! I truly appreciate it. I am curren...Thanks, Zane! I truly appreciate it. I am currently working on this subject for a book.Refreshment in Refugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109290647409291383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post-1131664585067828082005-11-10T17:16:00.000-06:002005-11-10T17:16:00.000-06:00This is really interesting that you mention this. ...This is really interesting that you mention this. In my Ethics in Criminal Justice class, I ran across that quote from Pliny. I had not put the two things together. THANK you!!! That is really good fodder. I must study this.Refreshment in Refugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109290647409291383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14059117.post-1131663453081058352005-11-10T16:57:00.000-06:002005-11-10T16:57:00.000-06:00I know the previous conversation is pretty much ov...I know the previous conversation is pretty much over, but I was reading The Story of Christianity by Justo L. Gonzalez. In AD 111, Pliny the Younger was appointed governor of Bithynia, on the northern shore of what today is Turkey. It tells about his persecution of Christians and one section kinda stuck out; "But Pliny considered himself a just man, and therefore felt obliged to find out what crimes, besides sheer obstinacy, Christians committed. All he could learn was that Christians gathered before dawn to sing to Christ and to join in an oath not to commit theft, adultry, or an such sins....... Not quite convinced that is was the whole truth, Pliny put two FEMALE Christian ministers to torture." <BR/><BR/>This indicates that even in the early second century, women were accepted as Christian ministers, about 40 years after Paul and Timothy supposedly said they couldn't ;)Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645947721661689967noreply@blogger.com