Syncretism

1. Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous.
2. Linguistics. The merging of two or more originally different inflectional forms.

Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and analogize several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, and thus assert an underlying unity.

Guest Lecturer

History Professor at MSU
Lecture in Johnstone Hall

"Intellectual Jam Session"

- Find joy and ideas
- Strive to make joy and inspiration an everyday event.

- Talk with your friends about ideas.


The best part of college was not the classes, but the discussions about ideas that we would have.

>> That's where the real learning takes place.

Bible Passage greater works

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:12


He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

John 8:7


Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Romans 13:12


Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

I Peter 5:8


Who was Mary Magdalene? CS Monitor Article

Text of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Bible Passages about not eating Pork

Leviticus 11:7-8

7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.


Deuteronomy 14:8

(almost identical wording saying that one should not eat pork or even touch the flesh of the pig.