When was hymn-singing introduced into Christian churches?
Ambrose, bishop of Milan, introduced hymn-singing into Christian churches in A.D. 386.
When was incense introduced? Incense was introduced in A.D. 500.
These are the eight elements that the Buddha thought were essential to enlightenment and liberation. They are the eight elements of the Buddhist Eightfold Path. They are: right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
These personifications of war, the Four Horsemen, appear in the Book of Revelation 6:1-8. They are: Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death, riding horses that are, respectively, white, red, black, and green.
The practice of using a string of knots or beads as a memory aid in prayer was developed long before the time of Christ. It was popularized among Catholics in the twelfth century by Saint Dominic of Spain, founder of the Dominican order. The word rosary may come from one of two sources: the early…
Gehenna is the Greek form of the Hebrew Ge Hinnom, or “Valley of Hinnom.” This was a valley west and south of Jerusalem where children were sacrificed in flames to the Ammonite god Moloch from the tenth through seventh centuries B.C. In Jewish and Christian thought, it became another name for the place where the…
The Bug Bible was the name given to Coverdale’s Bible of 1535 because it translated Psalm 91:5 as “Thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night.” The more common translation for the same Hebrew word (for example, in the King James Version) is “terror.”
In November 1908, the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana, became the first hotel to have Bibles placed in all its rooms by the Gideons. The Gideons were an organization for Christian business travelers founded in 1899 by Samuel Eugene Hill. By 1975, the Gideons had placed more than 10 million Bibles in hotels, hospitals,…