How all-too-human preachers can prepare their souls to preach. A good friend from the Pentecostal tradition, in which people will often stand up and speak very authoritatively to the congregation, ...

Altogether awesome and holy is the small area circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the ...

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, Saul Ansky writes, "At a certain hour, on a certain day of the year, [the holiness of space, people, time and language] met together. This took place on the Day of Atonement, at the hour when the ...

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Although the Sancta Sanctorum preserved some of the most venerated relics in Rome and a miraculous image of Christ, until the early twentieth century strict rules limiting access to the space made a ...