"THAI ICED TEA" and "DRUNKEN NOODLES (PAD KHI MAO): Stir-fried extra-wide rice noodles, fried egg, mix vegetables with spicy soy chili basil sauce"
TESSA SANCHEZ: Learning from Jack and Prinna how to practice hospitality changed the trajectory of the Yoshidas' life and equipped them to be bearers of the good news. Prinna said inviting people into one's home breaks down barriers and allows the Japanese to relax, lower their guard and release the formality characteristic of Japanese society.
Paul Elie: Some would say that these encounters are photo ops as much as anything else–gestures that bind no one, leave doctrines unaltered, and make nothing happen. There's some truth to that–and yet, when considered against the long history of popes disdaining temporal leaders and forbidding ordinary Catholics to encounter non-Catholic others, they are signs of life.
Ari Shvat: Stuffed animals, dolls and toys which are not full-featured detailed replicas of people or animals are not idolatry and are allowed, unless they’re made for religious purposes.
Amnon Bazak: "terafim" were likely used by the pagans for fortune-telling.
Jonathan Frankel: The legal owner of hereditary property rights within a family was demarcated by the possession of familial idols. The idols represented a discrete and irrevocable icon of control and deference to authority within the family unit and for public recognition. 🐘
Erin D. Darby: Rachel is the mother of Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, which form the core of the northern polity of Israel, and through Bilhah, of Naphtali and Dan. Thus, the story of her taking the teraphim is meant to explain the origin of this cultic item in the north.
Tamar Kadari: Rachel had taken the idols and placed them in the cushion on her camel's back. A miracle was performed for her, the idols were transformed into cups, and therefore Laban did not find them (Gen. Rabbah 74:9). These midrashic expositions cast Rachel's act in a positive light. She did not want to adhere to the paganism of her father's house, but rather sought to prevent Laban from engaging in idolatry. This exegetical direction is supported by the divine aid she received in the miraculous concealment of the idols from Laban.
"Rachel Hides Her Father's Household Gods from The Bible" by Moishe Shagal
Mercedes Millano Evangelista Fabro Rivera~Khan: Have you ever watched Hangover 2?
Clifford: I only watch Oscar~nominated Films.
A: Hi, I live near the Suburban Nyack College, have visited Risen King Alliance, and attended Alliance Theological Seminary for a semester. I'm Filipino~American. I share(d) the Gospel on Facebook Messenger with a local Thai~American friend named Timothy who considers himself Buddhist, although he's curious about Christianity. Sometimes, he inquires publicly for elucidation. Told him about Water Baptism and Fire Baptism, among other things. I've become curious about Thailand, in return, which is currently experiencing a Revolution.
JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO: As I prepared for this meeting, I read, with some pain, that for many people Christianity is a foreign faith, a religion for foreigners. This should spur us to find ways to profess the faith “in dialect”, like a mother who sings lullabies to her child. With that same intimacy, let us give faith a Thai face and flesh, which involves much more than making translations. It is about letting the Gospel be stripped of fine but foreign garb; to let it “sing” with the native music of this land and inspire the hearts of our brothers and sisters with the same beauty that set our own hearts on fire.
MIKET: Merton died in a room in Bangkok, Thailand, where he had journeyed for a conference of monks from East and West. He was found lying on the floor on his back with a large standing electric fan lying diagonally across his body. Though the blades had stopped running, the current was still operating, leaving a large brown streak halfway up his side.
An Australian Buddhist monk who has spent 30 years in Sri Lanka and Thailand: Sri Lanka and other Buddhist countries are up against an incredibly well financed, carefully designed and extremely determined scheme to destroy Buddhism and replace it with Christianity.
Thammasak Aueragsakul: It's traditional Persian & Thai's style.
Tom Super: Deep-fried chicken wings have long been a staple of Southern cooking. But the concept of cooking wings in peppery hot sauce was born in 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, when co-owner Teressa Bellissimo cooked leftover wings in hot sauce as a late-night snack for her son and his friends. The guys liked them so much that the Bellissimos put them on the menu the next day. Served with celery slices and bleu cheese sauce, "Buffalo Wings" were an instant hit.
