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Sometime around the year 107 A.D., a short, sharp persecution of the Church of Christ resulted in the arrest of the bishop of Antioch in Syria. His name was Ignatius. According to one of the harsh penal practices of the Roman Empire of the day, the good bishop was condemned to be delivered up to wild beasts in the arena in the capital city. The insatiable public appetite for bloody spectacles meant a chronically short supply of victims; prisoners were thus sent off to Rome to help fill the need. So the second bishop of Antioch was sent to Rome...

More Protestants Find a Home in the Orthodox Antioch Church By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN Published: October 2, 2009 LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md. — Cal Oren was threading his way through the Santa Cruz Mountains of California early one evening in 1993, driving his wife, brother and three tired children back from a day of hiking amid the redwoods. As their car neared the town of Ben Lomond, Mr. Oren said, his brother pointed to a church on the roadside and said: “I’ve been inside this. It’s really neat.” So Mr. Oren pulled to a stop, and as the children stayed in...

Antioch Chiropractor Pleads No Contest In Sex Case Thursday, October 1, 2009 Martinez, Calif. (AP) -- A former Antioch chiropractor has pleaded no contest to drugging two women and sexually assaulting one of them at his office. Thirty-eight-year-old Jason Goettsch faces four years in prison as part of a deal with prosecutors submitted Wednesday in a Contra Costa County Superior Court. Goettsch's attorney, Dirk Manoukian, says his client did not admit guilt, but would have faced up to 18 years in prison if convicted at trial. Police say Goettsch gave the women the drug GHB at a bar on Feb....

A website MyWay.com is reporting of tensions mounting in the Northern California City of Antioch, California over an influx of low income tenants moving into the area. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081230/D95D896O0.html. These problems were predicted by this writer in the Antioch Press in August 17, 2007(see below): What the article fails to report is that Antioch was subject to an unfair allocation of low income housing imposed on it by the Association of Bay Area Governments. This writer reported on the unfairness of Antioch's low income housing allocation in an article published in the Antioch Press on August 17, 2007. Below is the...

Antioch's gone, but its spirit lives Nonstop institute born out of demise Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:27 AM By Holly Zachariah THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- Jesus smiled down on Isabella Winkler as she talked to her college students about violence, passion, gender roles and French kissing. The six students in Winkler's culture and interpretation class focused on the photographs of embracing couples and paid no mind to the stained-glass image overwhelming the sanctuary inside the United Methodist Church. At about the same time, chemistry professor Kabuika Butamina was across town. He goes by only Kab. "Just one...

Former faculty at Antioch College, which is temporarily closing amid financial problems, plan to teach in coffee shops, bookstores and parks to keep alive the spirit of the private school known for its pioneering academic programs. Scott Warren, former associate professor of philosophy and political theory at Antioch, said 22 ex-faculty members have formed the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute in the village of Yellow Springs... Warren said the institute will follow the Antioch formula of offering progressive liberal arts courses while encouraging learning for life, humanitarian acts and collective decision-making. Murdock said she applauds the group's passion, but the institute...

Rome, Jun 12, 2008 / 12:17 pm (CNA).- The official Vatican daily “L’Osservatore Romano” has reported that the bishops of Turkey have decided to move up the beginning of the Pauline Year in that country to June 22. Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, will celebrate a Mass on that day, and symposium on the writings of St. Paul as well as a national pilgrimage to Tarsus, Antioquia and Ephesus will take place until June 24.In order to welcome visitors, the Church in Turkey has asked the government for permission to celebrate...

The Antioch Police Department has been named in a federal lawsuit alleging the department's Community Action Team unfairly targets African-American families enrolled in the subsidized-housing program known as Section 8. Filed in U.S. District Court earlier this month by Bay Area Legal Aid — a civil legal service for low-income families — the suit alleges the city and police department are engaged in a "concerted and unlawful campaign to seek evidence which could lead to the termination of participants' Section 8 voucher benefits." Four individuals and a group of Section 8 families are named as plaintiffs. The suit seeks unspecified...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) -- Antioch College, known for inspiring quirky academic programs that produce students with a passion for free thinking and social activism, has no choice but to close for the 2008-2009 academic year, trustees of the parent Antioch University said yesterday. Operations will be suspended June 30. Antioch and Yellow Springs, tie-dyed and liberal-leaning, fed off each other. Students were encouraged to create their own programs for learning. Famous alumni included Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, Coretta Scott King and evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould. After two days of meetings in Los Angeles, trustees reaffirmed their June...

ANTIOCH: Legal aid groups' study says policing team interferes with rights of black families living in Section 8 housing - Antioch Mayor Donald Freitas flatly rejects the claims of new a study that accuses the Antioch Police Department of racism. "I think you owe us an apology because ... you continue to play the race card and say we are discriminating, that we are prejudiced against African-Americans, and that simply is a lie," he said at Tuesday's City Council meeting. The mayor directed his comments toward the two legal aid groups that published the report, which alleges that the police...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio — Trustees overseeing Antioch College said Saturday they have reversed their decision to temporarily close the school, which is known for its pioneering academic program that produces students with a passion for free thinking and social activism. The reversal is contingent on whether alumni and the school can meet fundraising deadlines in the next three years, board chairman Art Zucker said. Antioch will also close buildings and dormitories and will downsize the faculty to meet budget constraints, he said. Trustees announced in June that because of declining enrollments, heavy dependence on tuition and a small endowment, the...

Sometime around the year 107 A.D., a short, sharp persecution of the Church of Christ resulted in the arrest of the bishop of Antioch in Syria. His name was Ignatius. According to one of the harsh penal practices of the Roman Empire of the day, the good bishop was condemned to be delivered up to wild beasts in the arena in the capital city. The insatiable public appetite for bloody spectacles meant a chronically short supply of victims; prisoners were thus sent off to Rome to help fill the need. So the second bishop of Antioch was sent to Rome...

A Troubling Undercurrent in George Will's Deathbed Obit for Antioch College Posted by Tom Blumer on July 15, 2007 - 22:36. The Pulitzer Prize winner's latest syndicated column is an offbeat gem about the "suspension of operations" that appears to presage the death of Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio: There is, however, a minuscule market for what Antioch sells for a tuition, room and board of $35,221 -- repressive liberalism unleavened by learning.Founded in 1852 -- its first president was Horace Mann -- Antioch was, for a while, admirable. One of the first colleges to enroll women and blacks,...

WASHINGTON -- During the campus convulsions of the late 1960s, when rebellion against any authority was considered obedience to every virtue, the film "To Die in Madrid," a documentary about the Spanish Civil War, was shown at a small liberal arts college famous for, and vain about, its dedication to all things progressive. When the film's narrator intoned, "The rebels advanced on Madrid," the students, who adored rebels and were innocent of information, cheered. Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, had been so busy turning undergraduates into vessels of liberalism and apostles of social improvement that it had not found...

YELLOW SPRINGS — Antioch College won't renew contracts for 13 of 60 administrators and eight hourly staff workers, effective Friday. Spokeswoman Lynda Sirk declined to elaborate on which positions were cut until the college had a chance to notify staff who are losing their jobs. "They've been kind of telling people one by one," said Chris Hill, the faculty spokeswoman who has taught media arts at the college for 10 years. Earlier this month, Antioch University's board of trustees decided to close the college because it had run out of money. The college will close in July 2008, and officials...

A shortage of money is prompting Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to close next year. The Board of Directors hopes to reopen four years later, but many fear it will not happen. A former faculty member of the liberal arts college reflects on what the closure means for the community and this work-study approach to higher education.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, June 22 — The messages have been flying through alumni chat rooms, sometimes 10 a minute, ever since Antioch University announced that it was closing, at least for now, the undergraduate college that once seemed the very symbol of the 1960s. A new curriculum program, intended to save money and shrink the faculty by abolishing majors and developing areas of concentration instead, projected that 190 new students would enter Antioch last September; instead 63 showed up. This year the college had 125 acceptances for September, but it was still not enough. The school is to be shut...

THIS is an obituary for a great American institution whose death was announced this week. After 155 years, Antioch College is closing. [snip] The college’s motto, not in Latin or Greek but plain English, was coined by Horace Mann, its first president: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” For most of its history the institution lived up to that calling. [snip] Yet it was in the high tide of liberal activism that the college lost its way. . . . The 2,000 students at Antioch, living in a picture-pretty American village, provided a laboratory...

SPRINGS — Antioch College will shutter its campus in July 2008 because of a lack of money and declining enrollment, the private, liberal arts college said Tuesday. The school will regroup for four years and hopes to find the financial resources to reopen an overhauled campus in 2012. About 160 faculty and staff will lose their jobs when the campus goes dark, said Mary Lou LaPierre, vice chancellor for university advancement. The undergraduate college, which has a rich history in social activism, has watched enrollment drop from its 1960s heyday of about 2,000 students to 400 today, LaPierre said. Enrollment...

According to a statement released on June 12, 2007 by the Antioch College Board of Trustees, the College in Yellow Springs, Ohio will suspend operations on July 1, 2008. The Trustees announced that the "College's resources are inadequate" to continue its operations in Yellow Springs. The statement from the Trustees refers to the College's "low enrollment and lack of adequate funding." It refers to all of the cutbacks that the College has made, which have "eroded the confidence students and parents have in the College's academic program." The statement mentions the long-term goal of reopening the campus at some point...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- Officials at Antioch College said it will close after the 2007-2008 school year while it searches for enough money to reopen. The small school in Ohio has a history of social activism and civil disobedience. It counts Coretta Scott King, "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling and evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould among its graduates. The college has a small, $30 million endowment and depends heavily on tuition revenue. But a student body that was 2,000 strong in the 1960s has dropped to around 400. School spokeswoman Linda Sirk said the college hopes to find enough money...

Hosanna Sunday On the next day, when the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him, and cried out: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, (even) the king of Israel."Jesus found an ass and sat upon it, as is written: "Fear no more, O daughter Zion; see, your king comes, seated upon an ass's colt."His disciples did not understand this at first, but when Jesus had been glorified they remembered that these things were written about...

Republican Simonsen faces tough campaign against DeSaulnier for 11th Assembly District Several hundred invited guests warmly welcomed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his "Protecting the California Dream" campaign tour Thursday morning in what may have been the first time a sitting governor visited Antioch. The stop also kicked off the 11th Assembly District race for Republican Arne Simonsen, the feisty Antioch city councilman running in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans two-to-one. He's running against Contra Costa Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat who bested three challengers in Tuesday's primary election. With odds that steep, it certainly doesn't hurt to have a...

by Chorbishop John D. Faris Three successors of Peter – Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I, Pope John Paul II, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV – gather in the Syriac Orthodox Cathedral of St. George in Damascus, May 2001. (photo: L’Osservatore Romano) For most people, the phrase “See of Peter” refers to Rome. Rome is the site of the martyrdom of St. Peter and it has been, ever since, the See of Peter. The term see may be unfamiliar. It is derived from the Latin word sede, meaning chair or seat, and refers to a seat of government, which in...

ANTIOCH, Calif. - A man who was evicted from the house he rented for years allegedly took revenge on his landlords by dumping the home's hoarded contents _ five-gallon buckets of cookies, canned food, old batteries and puzzle pieces _ on the front lawn and in the backyard. The homeowner, Ann Stevenson, said she rented the house to Lloyd Annesley and his partner, Margaret McCoy, with a subsidized rent as a favor to the longtime family friends. After McCoy died, Annesley learned he would have to move and his relatives helped him dump the debris before they abandoned the property...

The National Council of Churches has a long history of supporting Communist causes -- and condemning the United States and Israel. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES 475 Riverside DriveSuite 880New York, NY 10115 Phone :212-870-2227 URL :http://www.ncccusa.org/     Largest coalition of leftwing religious denominations in the United States Has long record of financial support for Communist regimesRemains faithful ally of Communist Cuba  Reserves criticism on moral issues for Israel and the United States Makes common cause with environmentalist radicals Masks leftist politics in faith-based declarations  Earlier this month, the National Council of Churches condemned Israel – a nation plagued in...

October 17, 2005Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr Psalm: Monday 45 Reading IRom 4:20-25 Brothers and sisters:Abraham did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief;rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to Godand was fully convinced that what God had promisedhe was also able to do.That is why it was credited to him as righteousness.But it was not for him alone that it was writtenthat it was credited to him;it was also for us, to whom it will be credited,who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,who was handed over for...

Qolo: Assumption Entrance Hymn Tune: Fsheeto Alleluia! O Mother who gave Life to us, petition on our behalf the Son who appeared from you: may he remove from us the blows of punishment, and keep away divisions and disputes. May he lead us in the path of life in which we journey at all times. On your memorial day, we sing praise to your only Son. Alleluia! Blessed are you, O Mary, for God, who feeds all creatures, was nourished by you and rested on your breast. O Wonder! The Son of God was nourished by a human creature! He...

ANTIOCH - A Deer Valley High student club prevailed this week when the school district, under threat of a lawsuit, agreed to allow the club to hold a political rally. In a meeting with the American Civil Liberties Union and half a dozen club members, Antioch Unified School District officials on Tuesday agreed to allow Students for Peace and Justice to stage an anti-war rally on campus this fall.The district indicated that it was not interested in spending money to pursue the matter in court, said ACLU attorney Julia Harumi Mass, who represented the club's two founders.Patrick Edelbacher and Amir-Ali...

29 March, 2005 TURKEY In Antioch Catholics and Orthodox celebrate Easter together Antakya (AsiaNews) – The 75 Catholics of Antakya, the glorious Antioch-on-the-Orontes where the followers of Jesus were called Christians for the first time, did not celebrate Easter on March 27 as did their fellow Catholics around the world. Instead, they shall share in the celebrations with the larger Greek Orthodox community on May 1. Since 1988 Christians in this southern city of modern Turkey have in fact been celebrating Easter together according to the ancient Julian calendar. This was the brainchild of Father Domenico Bertogli, an Italian capuchin...

<p>MANILA, Philippines — Two American brothers arrested in the Philippines last year for alleged ties to Al Qaeda (search)-linked groups were deported to the United States, immigration officials said Monday.</p> <p>Michael Ray Stubbs (search), 55, of Antioch, Calif., and his brother James, 56, who also goes by the name Jamil Daud Mujahid (search), of Newark, N.J., were arrested in December and ordered deported.</p>

October 17, 2003Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr Psalm: Friday 44 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IRom 4:1-8 Brothers and sisters:What can we say that Abraham found,our ancestor according to the flesh?Indeed, if Abraham was justified on the basis of his works,he has reason to boast;but this was not so in the sight of God.For what does the Scripture say?Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.A worker's wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.But when one does not work,yet believes in the one who justifies the ungodly,his faith...

QUESTION: Isn't it true that the King James Bible was translated by only half a dozen manuscripts, and that none of them was earlier than the 10th Century (900s) AD?

QUESTION: How do I handle professors that don't like to hear "King James only" arguments? They are evaluating using a certain Bible version. They say that they'll listen to evidence about other Bible versions, but do not want the King James mentioned specifically. What do I do?

QUESTION: Is anything missing from the New American Bible or the Rheims-Douay?

QUESTION: What is wrong with the New King James Version (NKJV)? All it does is modernize the words of the King James Bible, right? Why should I read the King James and not the helpful New King James?

QUESTION: Is it true that 1 John 5:7 is not in any Greek manuscript before the 1600s? If it is true, why is it in the King James Bible?

It would be extremely beneficial at this point if we could simply produce the original autographs for examination. This would greatly simplify the operation of establishing correctly the New Testament Text. But this simply cannot happen. It has long been acknowledged by scholars that we no longer have the "originals." They have long since passed from the scene. This is due to the fact that scribes were known to destroy worn out MSS after they had copied them. Apparently the church valued the WORDS of the original more than the original itself. Therefore, the readings of the originals must be...

FAMILY FEUD The manuscripts and their classifications and reading will be studied in later pages. What we shall do now is closely scrutinize the centers from which our extant manuscripts have originated. It will be revealed in later study that Biblical manuscripts(MSS) are divided into two major groups. These two groups have been found to disagree with each other in many areas. Every English Bible in existence today will be found to proceed more or less from one of these two groups. The fact that there is ONE God plainly tells us that there cane only be ONE correct reading...

QUESTION: Who were Westcott and Hort? ANSWER: Two unsaved Bible critics.

QUESTION: The New King James Version is based on the Antiochian manuscripts. Is it an improvement over the King James Bible? ANSWER: No.

QUESTION: Do Christians and Preachers who use other bibles "hate God." ANSWER: No, although some may abhor the thought of being in subjection to "a Book."

QUESTION: What's the difference between a "Textus Receptus Man" and a "King James Man." ANSWER: A "TR Man" gets his manuscripts from Antioch and his philosophy from Egypt.