So we must also come to understand, withrenewed wonder and gratitude, how the Magisterium of the Word made Flesh lives and
speaks in the Church with divinely guaranteed infallibility in the essentials of belief and moral principle until the end of the world.
Not exact matches
While I respect Rush's right to
speak his mind (without people like him, we would be like other totalitarian governments that don't tolerate dissent), I am
with the Pope and the
church in their efforts to reach out to the world.
To be sure, Lewis
spoke to a nation
with a legally established
church in World War II — era Britain.
How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the
church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when
in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the
church speaks with categorical moral authority?
So if Ryan claims to be
speaking in the name of his
Church and the Bishops continue to have sharp and specific disagreements
with much of what Ryan is saying, aren't the Bishops morally and theologically obligated to shoot Ryan down again?
The real question
with which I am confronted when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ
speaks the truth when he says that whatever the
Church shall loose on earth will be loosed
in heaven.
But when Catholics
speak up
in disagreement
with the Roman Catholic hierarchy, they are told to be quiet, to be good Catholics and submit to the authority of the
church.
Professor Jenson asks, «How,
in a world that entertains no promises» [a postmodern world], «is the
Church to
speak her eschatological hope
with any public plausibility?»
But I would love to
speak my peace about what I have learned
in my faith
with the
church — but maybe God has «cut the strings on that idea»?
This is
in line
with the liberal Catholic penchant of sharply distinguishing, if not separating and opposing, the «institutional»
Church from the Catholic people who are the
Church, and for whom people like Father Reese modestly claim to
speak.
In one he
speaks approvingly of «Helene's Religion»: «On Sunday I go to
church and pray
with all the others.
Likewise, the relative ease
with which the
Church can
speak publicly against embryo destruction is married oddly to the relative difficulty it experiences
in explaining the prohibitions on certain assisted reproductive technologies.
Speaking with Premier, organiser Steve Cox from the
Church and Media Network warned of «an era of fake news and cynicism
in the media.»
Speaking with LBC, she said: «The
Church of England has itself come a distance
in terms of looking at these issues.
Maybe I overlooked it
in your comment, but have you
spoken directly to the
church leaders, since it seems most of the problems come from the choir loft and worship team, along
with leaders wives and intercessors.
A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living
with.he
spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was
in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a
church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the
church.i quit going out
with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.
Dear friends
in Jesus Christ, I believe that God has called me to build a
Church for him, not
with bricks and mud, but
with people's hearts, for may be God is
speaking to you through me
in the spirit of Elijah to turn the hearts of father to theirs children and the children to their father's to prepare the way for our Lord.
Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black
churches)
in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham
with whom I've
spoken say the same sorts of things.
Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that
in January), travelling and
speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection
with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home
with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage,
church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)
With all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainl
With all of this
in mind, and
in response to common questions I receive when
speaking at mainline
churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013
with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainl
with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainline:
Even so, looking at the transfiguration
in conjunction
with other Christophanies reminds us that such texts
speak uniquely of Jesus Christ
in ways that evoke from the
church awe, fear and worship.
And I
speak and have helped
with organizing Christianity21 — a conference Tony runs — because I hope to help create a place where people from diverse Christian camps — such as Tony (who came from the Congregational
Church and now blogs for a progressive platform) and me (who grew up
in the Southern Baptist tradition who identifies as a moderate) can come and share ideas and interact respectfully.
I
spoke about giving and sharing, how living
with other people means that we can not always have our own way and how
in marriage, as
in our families and
churches, we must place the interests and needs of others above our own.
I once
spoke with a young woman who was raised
in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the
church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»
For years, people knew if they
spoke out against Driscoll, the Acts29 Network would work into overdrive to ensure they were persona non grata at any
church or conference
in this network — same dynamic was
in place
with the EV network.
This was the message Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze - kiun, the former bishop of Hong Kong, had for Aid to the
Church in Need, when he
spoke with the Catholic charity last November.
However, some are uncomfortable
speaking openly about such things
in the
Church, much less
with his or her pastor.
What's wrong
with the
church when folks like Shane Claiborne who have reputations for loving their enemies, giving without expecting anything
in return, and withholding judgment can't get
speaking gigs because of their «questionable» theological positions?
I'll start: I feel most at home
in a
church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin
with, 3)
speaks of Scripture
in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.
Patti has also
spoken for women's groups, prison ministries, and
in many
churches in India
with her husband, Tom.
Strictly
speaking, it is unreasonable for an evangelical catholic of the Lutheran tradition not to aspire to full communion
with the Roman Catholic
Church in some form, this side of heaven.
True, some Evangelical leaders have
spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin, who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some Evangelical organizations have cooperated
with the Russian Orthodox
Church in international conferences on the family.
Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to
speak,
with the early
Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature,
in Jesus Christ,
in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering
in the divine nature itself.
After that I'll be spending Sunday (October 6)
with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal
Church in Louisville, Kentucky,
speaking at the 10 a.m. service and then sharing about my «year of biblical womanhood» at a 7 p.m. for their Dimensions of Faith series.
Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying
in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published
in 1991,
speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and
church membership, and looking forward, if not
with optimism, at least
with hope.
I don't call them «
churches» anymore, or at least I don't align them semantically
with Jesus
speaking to Peter or anything that happened
in the book of Acts.
Despite having one foot
in Generation X, I tend to identify most strongly
with the attitudes and the ethos of the millennial generation, and because of this, I'm often asked to
speak to my fellow evangelical leaders about why millennials are leaving the
church.
The
church was
speaking about a merciful God not perched above the fray but down here
in the mess
with us.
Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early
in the book that he can only
speak for the mainline denominations
with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only
speak for his observations of the
churches / leaders
with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.
And, when I had the chance to
speak with Ray at a conference here
in Nashville, I was impressed by his passion for and involvement
in church planting.
Long's spokesman and
church members had said it is appropriate he first
speak in detail about the civil lawsuits
with his
church family.
Dear Synod fathers: please know you have the prayers of the ordinary faithful as you
speak in faithfulness to the Word, whose bond
with his
Church is unbreakable and who has never abandoned us, never given up on us.
Dominic recognised that the
Church needed an Order that could be where the people were,
with members well trained
in the Scriptures and
in the
Church's Tradition, who could
speak directly to them.
We were a group of 20 students at a mission school
in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to
speak and pray
with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic
Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.
Kuhns delineates five areas
in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the
church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or r
church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the
Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or r
Church's authority» (
in the concrete situations facing the
church who can speak with authority about wrong or r
church who can
speak with authority about wrong or right?)
In many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the pas
In many respects it was only possible to
speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events
in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the pas
in the life of the
Church, when these events already belonged to the past.
and knowing that «going deep» so to
speak on theology isn't her typical move, I figured I would take a read and see if perhaps she had changed somehow
in the years since we worshiped at the same
church every week, or if this was merely a simple «It's all good
with Jesus, so judge not, and so on» type post / statement.
One day the pastor took me on a journey one day through the swamps and bayous until we came to this small
church in the wild where he was to
speak along
with other preachers.
The apparent goal is to create an institutional structure that will propose itself as representing the lay people
in speaking for the Catholic
Church, whether
in tandem
with or as an alternative to the voice of the bishops.
if you want to
speak of deliberate sin, perhaps you should start
with the drunkards, or adulterers, or the obese at your
church, or
in your mirror