the giving of our father, the lord s prayer. she had a building program there. and she had the money and his support. constantine also found in her faith something that would redeem him. he knew christian faith very well, and he knew baptism remitted all your sins, and he had quite a bit of blood on his hands. he wasn t the head of the roman empire for being mr. nice emperor. indeed, constantine was ruthless. he killed his son, his wife and several relatives. he had persecuted and tortured christians. yet with numbers in the millions, he knew they were crucial to keeping his fragile empire together. so he made christianity legal in the year 313 that ended decades of brutal persecution.
the gives of the our father the lord s prayer. she had a building program there. and she had the money and his support. constantine also found in her faith something that would redeem him. he knew christian faith very well, and he knew baptism remitted all your sins, and he had quite a bit of blood on his hands. he wasn t the head of the roman empire from being mr. nice emperor. indeed, constantine was ruthless. he killed his son, his wife and several relatives. he had persecuted and tortured christians. yet with numbers in the millions, he knew they were crucial to keeping his fragile empire together. so he made christianity legal in
who in fact was over all. and so was he really a worshipper of the god of jesus or was he a worshipper of the sun god? by that time, of course, christians ran in the millions. and i suppose constantine thought, if you can t beat them, join them. and i think with his mother, too, well, he thought that this is true. constantine had an influential mother, helena, a devoted christian. she traveled to the holy land and located the most important sites from the christian story, building great shrines that remain among the holiest christian places today. she was a very noble lady, and she led the building program in the holy land to have the church of the holy sepulcher built where jesus was buried and rose from the dead. and also a church built to honor
or was he a worshipper of the sun god? by that time, of course, christians ran in the millions. and i suppose constantine thought.if you can t beat them, join them. and i think with his mother, too, well, he thought that this is true. constantine had an influential mother, helena, a devoted christian. she traveled to the holy land and located the most important sites from the christian story, building great shrines that remain among the holiest christian places today. she was a very noble lady, and she led the building program in the holy land to have the church of the holy sepulcher built where jesus was buried and rose from the dead. and also a church built to honor
recent this last sunday when four u.s. soldiers were killed. now most joint u.s. and other nato operations have been suspended. i have a cousin on a nine-month deployment in afghanistan and he told me the soldiers he is working with are not patrolling anymore until further notice. we have senators john mccain, joe lieberman, lindsay graham putting out a statement criticizing the president s strategy. they say in quote, in particular, we re concerned that the rush to build up the afghan national security forces as quickly as possible, so that u.s. forces could begin withdrawing on the administration s timetable has contributed to the problem of the so-called insider attacks. do you agree with that estimation that the timetable and the rush to withdraw is the problem? we ve been in afghanistan for over ten years and we ve had forces out there working with the afghans all this time. we ve had for several years, seven or eight years a building