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Dining with Minahasans and Jews

Published on July 28, 2019 By sirrahc

“MINAHASA: an Indonesian people inhabiting the Minahasa Peninsula of northeast Sulawesi” — Merriam-Webster Do you ever get really grossed out when you see or hear what certain other cultures eat? Certainly, missionaries and other visitors from one part of the world to another will encounter some “delicacies” that seem awfully strange, even disgusting. Why is […]

Headcoverings and Christian Country Clubs

Published on June 23, 2019 By sirrahc

MORES (pronounced like “morays”): “folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group” — Webster’s Dictionary Bible reading can be… confusing, at times. And, even when it doesn’t seem to be, sometimes we misunderstand what is actually being advised, commanded, described, or otherwise referred to. One of the […]