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2023-07-16T15:52:04-04:00

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The Parthenon Art Museum

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 3:52 pm By Ben Witherington

In the basement of Nashville’s Parthenon is a small art museum with some nice landscapes, still lifes, and one painting by Winslow Homer, the most famous American artist included in the gallery. Here are some examples starting with Winslow Homer…. Here’s an interesting and atypical European painting of a woman … This very fine painting from Venice is by an unknown artist. Read more

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2023-07-16T15:57:01-04:00

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The Parthenon– In Nashville

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 3:57 pm By Ben Witherington

There were reports the day we visited the Parthenon in Nashville (constructed to give that city a reason to call itself the Athens of the South) that the Parthenon in Athens had been shut down due to extreme heat because people were passing out on the top. It could not have been more hot and humid than at the Parthenon in Nashville— 100F in the shade with high humidity. Yikes! This Parthenon was first constructed in 1897 for the Exposition... Read more

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The temple of the Virgin (Parthenos)

2023-07-16T08:55:59-04:00

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Belle Meade– The Carriage House

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 8:55 am By Ben Witherington

Before the age of the auto, carriages were all the rage in the East and South. And some companies made a fortune off of designing various kinds, often modelled on British carriages, including royal ones…. so not surprisingly, since rich Americans like to imitate British royalty… we find the Victoria— modelled on Queen Victoria’s own fancy carriage…. My personal favorite is the pie wagon! Some of these buggies were fancy enough to have brakes…. In the winter one wanted a... Read more

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A one horse open sleigh

2023-07-16T08:39:44-04:00

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Belle Meade– The Outside

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 8:39 am By Ben Witherington

Belle Meade Mansion is a very interesting place to visit if you like late 19th century mansions and want to see how the other half lived. What set’s this house apart is that unlike nearby mansions where they grew crops like cotton, this was a house with a major horse farm, where people would come from miles away to appraise and buy horses. And of course one of the things you do when you are horse people is you show... Read more

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A House for Horse People

The setting in a Belle Meade--- i.e. beautiful meadow

2023-07-16T07:59:55-04:00

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Towel Wisdom?

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 7:59 am By Ben Witherington

You never know what you will find at a gift shop, in this case at Belle Meade Mansion in Nashville. For instance, how about a cello wine rack? Or some towel wisdom? Ah yes, Southern gift shops, where all things tacky go to die. Read more

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Throw in the towel please!

2023-07-04T20:39:16-04:00

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Kevin Belmonte’s, A Journey Through the Life of William Wilberforce

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 8:39 pm By Ben Witherington

Kevin Belmonte, A Journey Through the Life of William Wilberforce, (New Leaf Press, 2007), 122 pp. Kevin Belmonte has made a writing career out of doing biographies of famous Evangelical and Catholic figures of various eras including Dwight L. Moody, A.J. Gordon, G.K. Chesterton, John Bunyan, and two biographies of William Wilberforce. In this post I am dealing with the smaller Wilberforce book, that accompanied the release of the movie about John Newton. For a movie basically aimed... Read more

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Feel the force of Wilberforce

2023-07-01T10:15:36-04:00

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The Misreading of Slave Passages in the Bible– Part Two

Last updated on: July 1, 2023 at 10:15 am By Ben Witherington

Certainly one of the dominant images and passages in the Bible when it comes to the issue of slavery is the storyline in Exodus about the enslaving of the Hebrews, and then their liberation through the efforts of Moses and others. And note that Moses was a reluctant liberator. It was God Almighty who sent Moses back to Egypt with the command to free his chosen people, and Moses was ordered, yes ordered, to confront Pharaoh (probably Ramses II) and... Read more

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The Bible is not pro slavery

2023-07-01T12:02:16-04:00

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The Misreading of Slave Passages in the Bible— Part One

Last updated on: July 1, 2023 at 12:02 pm By Ben Witherington

Over the course of some 40 years of teaching the Bible, I have become increasingly weary of the misreading of the slave passages in both the OT and the NT. This frustration was only exacerbated when the Museum of the Bible had a special exhibit a couple of years ago of ‘the Slaves Bible’, a Bible produced by slaveholders in the U.K. for their colonies where slavery was the very means by which rice and cotton plantations (and other sorts... Read more

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The Bible is not pro slavery

2023-06-29T12:41:35-04:00

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My Online Logos courses are Now available

Last updated on: June 29, 2023 at 12:41 pm By Ben Witherington

URL www.logos.com/bwitherington https://www.logos.com/ben-witherington-iii?utm_source=Ben+Witherington+III+PhD&utm_medium=partner&ClickID=06_130142401_cc36c42d-d92b-49db-be2c-c54f6351d9ca&nonencodedurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.logos.com%2fben-witherington-iii Ben Witherington III Mobile Education Courses Bible Survey Video Series: John Your Price: $9.99 Add to cart Mobile Ed: Reflecting on the Word: Video Devotionals (Year B) Your Price: $49.99 Add to cart Mobile Ed: Essentials Bundle (3 courses) Your Price: $809.99 Add to cart Mobile Ed: NT146 The Arrival of Christ and His Kingdom (2 hour course – audio) Your Price: $19.99 Add to cart Discipleship & Spiritual Formation: Intermediate Study Bundle Your Price: $1,849.99 Add to... Read more

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2023-06-29T08:04:03-04:00

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What Kind of Sermon Did you hear this Week?

Last updated on: June 29, 2023 at 8:04 am By Ben Witherington

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