Firecrackers popped, incense was offered at temples and dancers and drummers paraded Wednesday in Asia and farther afield as millions around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year.
The Jubilee has roots in the Jewish practice of Sabbath rest every seven days, connected to the creation story in which God created the world in six days and rested on the next. This rest is not ...
Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church tradition and frustrating church unity. That gets things backward.