The Intuitive Reasonings of Jessica

have been around for a long time too. I tend to think of churches with sports centers to be a new-fangled worldly thing, but in Art History class this week I learned that the new-fangled part of my assumption was incorrect. Our study of archaic Greek architecture brought us to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, which is now mostly ruins:
This place of worship came complete with a theater and a stadium to glorify Apollo, the god of the arts (also the god of the sun, medicine and healing, truth and prophecy, archery, and more). As we looked at slides of these ruins in class, I couldn't help but think of how many mega-churches are copying this ancient heathen church in the building of new Christian churches. Does it really glorify God to bring worldly things into his house? Shouldn't we be building our churches in the manner of early Christian churches, not early heathen temples?

have been around for a long time. 1858 presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln said to a northern Illinois audience:

"Let us discard all this quibbling about this man or the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal."

To a southern Illinois audience, Lincoln said:

"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races (applause); that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. . . . And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."