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A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten The Fall of The Roman Empire
Interamna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire. According to a published study in Roman Urbanism in Italy, this central Italian town thrived well beyond previous belief, using its impressive urban features and forward-thinking design to stave off the effects of the empire’s collapse well into the 3rd century AD. “We started with a site so unpromising that no one had ever tried to excavate it,” Alessandro Launaro, the study’s author […] -
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Thomas Manton was an English Puritan. Here he writes on James 1:27, which says pure religion is visiting the suffering. Manton describes the relation as our showing mercy is the way we show interest in God’s mercy. Poetic symmetry. Not works righteousness.
Do we want, instead, to show this interest in God’s love by means of telling people how many hours we spent in our morning devotions? How can you provide tangible help today?