The shops in its Jerusalem Street Market sell a few crosses, but display a much wider selection of menorahs, shofars and Stars of David. Terri Dyer, a Vietnamese convert from Buddhism, said this is a strikingly different set of symbols and messages than she encounters at Orlando's First Baptist Church. I think more people need to realize that the earliest Christians were Jews. The Bible describes all kinds of things, but sometimes it's hard to picture what it would have looked like. He writes this column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
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