For instance, I can't
write about church and community when I'm not making time for church and community in my life.
I guess I am going to close with this and it goes a bit with the part
I wrote about the churches across from each other.
So it was with great excitement when I learned that one of my favorite authors who
writes about the church, was publishing a book about Jesus.
NOTE: This is an OLD post from 2007, and I no longer agree with everything I have
written about church below.
A version of this article originally appeared on Craig Greenfield's blog, where he regularly
writes about church and justice issues.
Never mind what our founding fathers
wrote about church and state seperation — it has to be your mythical religion and it being the only way.
He writes about church health and innovative leadership from the perspective of small church.
The book unites a respectful but nicely gossipy text by June Hager, who has been
writing about the churches of Rome...
He writes about church health and innovative leadership from the perspective of small church.
Not exact matches
Well, here I am
writing about it again because it not only takes place in the
church but in Christian movements such as Emergent.
Never - the-less, I am fascinated by biblical scholarship, the history of the early
church, and at any rate think people should have the correct facts
about what was
written and what the original authors meant it to mean.
The
church's enemies have been
writing her obituary for
about 2000 years ago.
In Seattle, Washington, and Oakland, California, gay men have reportedly served in LDS
Church leadership roles, Peggy Fletcher Stack
wrote in her piece
about Mayne in The Salt Lake Tribune.
George Weigel
writes about why partisans of John Paul II and John XXIII need to get along, while Ralph Hancock talks
about revelation and the
Church of Latter - day Saints.
Respectfully: Athenagoras of Athens, a Father of the
Church wrote about abortion in refuting a false claim
about the
Church in the Year 170.
Writing in 1983, Michael E. Smith noted that Douglas» autobiography expressed contempt for conventional religion and that Black's son acknowledged his father's dark suspicions
about the Catholic
Church.
Hitler
wrote a speech in which he talks
about this alliance, this is an excerpt: «The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic
Church.
** After this article was posted, an Episcopalian noted that the
church's COO, Bishop Stacey Sauls, had a
written a blog post
about the verdict on July 15.
I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all
wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the
church.
And he seems quite clear
about something — the immoral person can not inherit the kingdom — this is
written to a
church community BTW.
Peter Hawkins of Yale Divinity School
writes about his recent visit to the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is controlled by the Latin Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenians, Syrians, and Copts who have been vying with one another for centuries.
However, for a
Church pastor the context of considering these things is quite different, and
writing about these things provokes a very different response in people.
I've thought and
wrote long and hard
about visionary thinking in the
Church.
But, it is possible to believe in vain (according to Paul)-- I can't help it but to think
about the Seven Letters to the
Churches that Our Lord Jesus
wrote in the beginning of the Book of Revelation... Not all Seven
Churches were doing what God instructed them to do.
Washington (CNN)- Thomas Jefferson famously
wrote about the wall of separation between
church and state.
You idiots give Obama a pass on his racist, anti American cult
church and god forbid you say anything
about Islam, which by definition is out to destroy the west, read their own
writing.
Finally a well
written and concise article
about the LDS
Church and it's beliefs.
So good that someone like Richard is
writing history with such a huge amount of knowledge
about the Catholic
Church and its tradition.
I have
written similar ideas before
about how the
church spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g., How the Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Min
church spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g., How the
Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Min
Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Ministry.
David Dunham
writes a blog for RELEVANT
about how the
Church confuses maturity with masculinity and why that has damaged church me
Church confuses maturity with masculinity and why that has damaged
church me
church members.
Would you mind if someone attended your
church but didn't want to make the commitments that Rainer
writes about?
Erika Morrison
writes for RELEVANT
about how she has found community and Christ outside of a conventional
church.
In this chapter, he
writes about how he left the
church in order to find the
church — not in a building with clergy and a congregation, but in life lived together with other people.
Considering that it took the
Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds
about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections»
written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?
Yet throughout
church history, this is what most
churches have seemed to believe Paul was condoning when he
wrote about handing someone over to Satan.
One of the more surprising things I discovered (or maybe it's not so surprising) is that while many of the
churches did a good job talking
about their services times, children's programs, and upcoming events, few
wrote much
about opportunities for -LSB-...]
At no point in
church history have so many people
written so many books and articles, not to mention blogs, wikis, and e-newsletters,
about the Christian faith.
«Our test to see if a similar story would be
written about others» religion is to substitute «Jew» or «Jewish,»» Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul
wrote in objection to a Washington Post article last fall
about the candidate's role as a
church leader in Boston.
Dianna Anderson
writes a blog for RELEVANT
about how Jesus and Scripture embraced feminism — and why the
Church should to.
The stuff I've
written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the
church in the community doesn't seem to connect with
church people, who usually think
church is
about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.
Ah, the irony, this woman
writes an article
about people leaving the
church and it appeases the elders!!
I recently reviewed 25 Albany
Church websites, and
wrote an article
about it at Examiner.com.
Ben Simpson
writes a blog for RELEVANT
about how to remain with a
church, even when you do not see eye to eye.
In my efforts to account for Mantel's animus against God and the Catholic
Church, I have indeed
written about her personal life.
Max Dubinsky
writes about his experiences on a cross-country journey to find God outside of the
church and in the streets.
Apparently, you get Thom Rainer to
write a book
about it, and get 23 prominent
church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» cl
church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared
church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» cl
church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «
Church Membership» cl
Church Membership» classes.
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?!)
We, and our students, have
written not only
about God but also
about the problem of evil, Christ, the
church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.
When I
write critically
about the emerging
church, the same folks jump on board to make a case for their woundedness.
In other places, I
write about the gifts that young people bring to the
church in terms of really expanding what it means to live a life of faith.