I haven't finished reading Five Doves posts today, being busy with Mother's Day, but already I have found three very helpful or inspiring articles.

First, Nando's article on how believing in "imminence" helps us with our anxiety of when the rapture will be.  Even if we look at dates as possible or probable, in the back of our minds "imminence" must be our bedrock belief.  It could happen at any time, but I think it will happen before the revelation of the AC, because of many scholars belief in this, including the one below.

Second, I like Marilyn Agee's post on "apostasia" as the snatching away of the eklesia.  Scriptures well presented.  If this was, as Marilyn says, the interpretation of eight Bibles before KJV, it's worth thinking about, whatever your views up to this point.  It is one of those areas where good scholars disagree, as Chuck Missler puts it, without being in error, because there is room to stretch either way.

Third, I am wild about Bob A's presentation of what was in the "Common Core" of education in America a long time ago.  The McGuffey's Reader, which not only addressed the readers as Christians, but had some well-thought-out comments on the Christian life.  And taught people to read handily.  I might add that even though Latin might not be in mass education of that time, it was a part of college prep, and was a great facilitator of learning English grammar and vocabulary.  In even earlier days, in Shakespeare's "grammar school", for instance, Latin and Greek were main subjects, and they facilitated English speaking and writing marvelously.  I know this from experience with teaching students grammar and vocabulary through (in part) attention to Latin and Anglo-Saxon roots.

Did anyone say dumbed down?  It's too bad.  I had some "dumbed down" students in college remedial classes who improved at the speed of light with my method, which was not just mine, but something much earlier teachers knew about and later ones forgot.  I'm long retired, so forgive me when I make my own mistakes in writing.

These are just three good posts from Five Doves today, which made my (Mother's) day.