Tag: children

World ‘must do more’ for children

Dec 10, 2007

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Education, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

BBC: World 'must do more' for children In a new report it noted considerable strides had been made to meet pledges in education and areas of health care. But it stressed that "much more must be done" in order to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals deadline. The report identified areas for urgent action as…
Household: Household Code in Ephesians (Part 4)

Oct 11, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, Gender and Sex, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Greco-Roman household codes were instructions to the paterfamilias on ruling over his household for the sake of the social order. They typically included instruction about wives, slaves, and sometimes children. The biblical writers tended to follow this pattern, as we have seen in 1 Peter and Titus. Ephesians does the same. We have just examined…