Rowland Croucher
Torture Then and Now
*Sightings* 11/26/07 — Martin E. Marty Torture, including torture by Americans: Who could have predicted that this would be a live topic here in the twenty-first century? We know how to associate torture with the accused and accusing other, with Inquisitors and witch hunters five centuries ago, or with far-away twentieth century totalitarian regimes and […]
Away with the Manger
Cheryl Lawrie November 25, 2007 Taking the pressure to be popular off the Christmas story offers a chance for a whole new meaning. In the town where I grew up, the Christmas pageant was the highlight of the year. We’d arrive early and thrust our way past the adults to sit at the blue line. […]
Advent Angels
As we begin the Christian season of Advent I am reminded of one of my heroes, Pastor Alfred Depp, courageous Lutheran who was eventually hung by the Nazis. Pastor Depp wrote from his prison cell about the comfort that is to be found, even in the worst of situations, in the promises of Advent. Advent […]
Signs of Faith
The signs outside churches advertising God are as close as most get to hearing a sermon. READ ON MORE Church sign generator. READ ON When church signs suck. READ ON The cultural history of church signs. READ ON And visit http://funnyjokesnpics.blogspot.com/search/label/CHURCH%20SIGNS for some beauties!
Iraq’s Mandaeans Desperate For Help
Subj: Iraq’s Mandaeans “Desperate for help” The Quran groups together “Believers, Jews, Christians and Sabians” (or Sabaeans, also known as Mandaeans) as those who believe in God and the Last Day and do what is right (Sura 2:62 and 5:69). Despite that, Shi’ite clerics in Iraq have issued fatwas against the Mandaeans, deeming they are […]
Belarus; Turkmenistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 22 November 2007 BELARUS: FINED FOR HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICE IN PRIVATE YARD http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1051 Gennadi Ryzhkov, pastor of a Council of Churches Baptist […]
The Gospels and modern scholarship
(A modern Liberal approach to the study of the Gospels) Nov. 25, 2007 Getting On With It By Harry T. Cook With the hounds of the anti-heresy squad baying at my heels, I thought I may as well buckle down on my on-again, off-again major research on the four documents known as According to Thomas, […]
Our Kind of Royalty
Nov. 25, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 19: 29-38 The general idea on this Sunday next before Advent is to proclaim Jesus Christ as king – and not only “king,” but “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” You can hear the strains of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” even now. In many communions this Sunday […]
Anti-religious humor
Ridiculous Religions Quotes: “One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.” [Robert A Heinlein] “Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.” [Ambrose Bierce] “All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.” [Stendahl] “Religion is the art of occupying limited minds with […]
How Moralty is Destroying Holiness
HOW MORALITY IS DESTROYING HOLINESS For many Christians, “holiness” conjures up musty images of revival meetings, gospel singers, and old-time religion-along with stern prohibitions against drinking, dancing, and playing cards. And many are happy to leave these notions of holiness in the past. Yet even in our era of megachurches and post-modern emerging churches, holiness […]
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