Using Labels to Search This Blog

This post will help you to get more value from this blog by showing you how to search for specific subjects.  This is a very eclectic blog which can touch on almost any subject, from Star Trek ; to the Lakota war-chief Sitting Bull ; to NASCAR ; to what is probably the world’s best-known hymn, Amazing Grace ; to comic books ; and doctrinal subjects like sanctification and obedience .

The labels follow the posts in a separate section.  To search for a subject, all you need to do is select a label (keyword) and click on it.  All the posts which mention the subject will come up as group.

Christians

At some time during their lives, the following people have publicly identified themselves as Christian.   Inclusion in this list does not indicate approval or disapproval of the person, of their orthodoxy or lack of it, or of their actions.  Readers are encouraged to suggest persons who should be included on this list.  This is a recurring segment in this blog.

Tertius: (fl. 1^st century AD/CE) Tertius was the scribe used by Paul to write down his letter to the Romans.  Romans 16:22 was personally written by Tertius.

Ruvim I: Ruvim served as the Metropolitan of Montenegro from 1561 to 1569.

Sitting Bull: (b. ca 1831, Dakota Territory, USA – d. 1890; aka: Jumping Badger)  A Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man and tribal cjief.  He was the main war leader at The battle of the Little Bighorn against the United States Army.  Late in his life, Sitting Bull was a convert to Roman Catholicism.

Sarah M. Brownson (b. 1839, Massachusetts, USA – d. 1876) Roman Catholic writer, literary critic.

Shahbaz Bhatti: (b. 1968, Pakistan – martyred 2011)  Pakistani politician. Roman Catholic.  He was assassinated by a Muslim who objected to his criticism of Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws.

Amazing Grace in Lakota

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The Lakota tribe (aka: Dakota, Sioux) live primarily in the states of North and South Dakota in the United States of America. They number about 70,000, of whom about 25,000 speak Lakota, a dialect of Sioux; the rest speak English.


The most well-known Lakota from history are Sitting Bull, ca. 1831-1890 (Lakota name: Thatanka Iyotake) and Crazy Horse, ca. 1840-1877 (Lakota name: Thasunke Witko).