Consider, for instance, Paul’s instruction to bondservants. While bondservants were not exclusively male, there would have been males included in the category. As such, these instructions would inform ...

It’s that time of year again — the Memorial Day weekend 1890 Days Jamboree in Ringgold — two days of fun, food, music, shopping and soaking up a festive atmosphere. The Jamboree runs 5:30 to ...

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Why were Clean Slates so important to Bronze Age societies? From the third millennium in Mesopotamia, people were aware that debt pressures, if left to accumulate unchecked, would distort normal ...

In late 2023, the United Methodist Church (UMC) released many of its conservative churches due to theological disagreements over LGBTQ+ ministers and congregants. Without its more conservative ...

When interest-bearing commercial and agrarian debt came to be incorporated into civilization’s economic structure in the third millennium BC, it was accompanied by clean slates that liberated ...

As mentioned before, Onesimus was enslaved. We should mention that enslaved people tended to fall into two categories in ancient times. Bondservants were essentially indentured servants. The ...

[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty, volume 1, chapter 6, “The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves”. An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is ...

Even though weed is regarded as illegal in large amounts, cannabis consumption plays a major role in Jamaica's public image. Bondservants imported cannabis from India to Jamaica between the ...

The BondServants Southern Gospel Quartet from the Chattanooga area will sing Sunday, at the third Sunday night Red Back Hymnal Singing at the Hullander Farm in Apison.

As abolitionism intensified, so did Southerners’ “biblical defense” of slavery, anchored in such as “Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters,” found in Colossians 3:22.