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Identify Yourself!

By and others ⋅ February 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

17 FEBRUARY 2006 Archbishop addresses World Council of Churches Address to the 9th meeting of the World Council of Churches, Porto Alegre, Brazil If someone says to you ‘Identify yourself!’ you will probably answer first by giving your name then perhaps describing the work you do, the place you come from, the relations in which […]

‘Jesus Only’ Isn’t Enough

By and others ⋅ February 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Where exactly do “Oneness” Pentecostals stand in relation to orthodoxy? Are they in or out? By J. Stephen Lang | posted 04/01/2002 Where exactly do “Oneness” Pentecostals stand in relation to orthodoxy? Are they in or out? —Fred Askins, Commerce City, Colorado The decisive word in the origins of “Jesus only” (or Oneness) Pentecostals is […]

Priests Forgiving Sins ?

By and others ⋅ February 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

>>Jesus said that to the disciples. But is your position then that (some?) men can forgive the sins of others on behalf of God? If so who might those men be? An Orthodox priest’s response: Christian Priests (elders) and Bishops (successors to the Apostles) have always -announced- either God’s forgiveness for sins confessed or in […]

If you read the Gospels, the Religious Right is most often Wrong

By and others ⋅ February 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Right? It seems more like the religious ‘wrong’ Date published: 11/28/2004 RICK MERCIER http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/112004/11282004/1577602 WAS JESUS a big winner in the last election? You’d sure think so. If the pundits and Religious Right zealots are correct, the Son of God scored a knockout victory on Nov. 2. We’ve had it drilled into our heads […]

Orthodox Churches’ views of other Christian Clergy/Sacraments

By and others ⋅ February 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

From an Orthodox priest-friend: A quote from the Patriarch HH Shenouda III, one of the heads of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and a former President of the WCC… http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=protestant+ordinations+and+Orthodox+theology&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&x=wrt&u=tasbeha.org/content/hh_books/Comptheo/&w=protestant+ordinations+orthodox+theology&d=ZlkGHW1aMPxI&icp=1&.intl=us The above reasons are our answers to the question, repeatedly asked of us: “why do the Orthodox Church re- baptise the converts from the Protestant denominations”? […]

Women Bishops

By and others ⋅ February 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Thursday 9th February 2006 General Synod February Group of Sessions Archbishop’s contribution to the debate on the House of Bishops’ Women Bishops Group: Report to the General Synod “This world will one day pass away and the ecclesiastical structures on which we expend so much time and energy, important though they are, will pass away […]

Beginnings Of Fundamentalism – Late 19th Century

By and others ⋅ February 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Fundamentalist Christianity, or Christian fundamentalism is a movement which arose mainly within American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by conservative evangelical Christians, who, in a reaction to modernism, actively affirmed a “fundamental” set of Christian beliefs: the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, […]

An Embarrassment of Riches

By and others ⋅ February 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

An Embarrassment of Riches An evangelical concerned about God ¹s kingdom answers the call to reveal the truth about Sodom. By Jeremy R. Del Rio, Esq Money is a singular thing … equally important to those who have it and those who do not. John K. Galbraith, Economist Why did God destroy Sodom? Instinctively, we evangelicals […]

Catholic Statement on Social Justice

By and others ⋅ February 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Jesus, Light for the World: living the gospel today Australian Catholic Bishops Statement on Social Justice 2005 Just as a light attracts those in darkness so Jesus – the light of our lives – will attract those in need. As light for the world Christians need to take up the challenge of living the Gospel […]

A Convert to Orthodoxy reconsiders Evangelicalism

By and others ⋅ February 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

A convert to Orthodoxy reconsiders evangelicalism. By Sam Torode Twenty years ago, Thomas Howard, the brother of devotional writer Elisabeth Elliot, wrote a book titled Evangelical Is Not Enough. His basic argument was that rituals don’t necessarily lead to dead religiosity. Instead, sacramental rites and liturgical rhythms can bring us closer to Christ. Howard was […]

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