The Boston Theological Institute together with Bentley University, the Congregational Library and Park Street Church: Commemorating the Bicentennial of the ABCFM* “A Conference on America’s First Sponsor of Overseas Christian Missions” The Congregational Library and Park Street Church Saturday, September 25, 2010 – Day-long Program Includes – 8:30 AM Academic Symposium The Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, Boston 2:00 PM Historic Trolley Tour of Boston Mission Sites 5:00 PM Gala Reception and Dinner, Park Street Church 0 Park Street, Boston 7:00 PM Keynote Address: “From 1810 – 2010” Todd Johnson, Editor, The Atlas of Global Christianity Registration covering costs of materials, luncheon, trolley tour and banquet ($50) For details & deadline for registration, contact the Boston Theological Institute 210 Herrick Road, Newton Center, MA 02459 – T: 617-527-4880 Email: btioffice@bostontheological.org * American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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A Conference on America’s First Sponsor of Overseas Christian Missions
Fifteen bishops of the Church of England have penned a letter regarding the actions of the Church of England which has begun the legislative process that will lead, barring new twists and turns, to the ordination of women to the episcopate in England by 2014. The letter is rather convoluted, since it does not express a single mind regarding actions to be taken.
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Fifteen English Bishops in an anti-democratic snit.
A Fractal is a unique form of nondenominational fellowship that has stripped every modern convention away from Christian worship. Based solely on individual connections, it’s essentially “church without church.” FaithInSA.com
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Worshippers strong on faith, but not church
Paul Harvey Randall beat me to the punch with his post on religion in the colonial South, and its relative importance as portrayed in recent scholarship as compared with its conventional role in older works as a foil for Yankee Puritanism.
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Religion in the Early South, Redux
Randall Stephens Rebecca Goetz and Lauren Winner have convinced me that historians have long had some ahistorical assumptions about the role of religion in colonial Virginia. (And, when many are teaching on a subject that is well out of their field–me included–they tend to dust off the old fables and retell them as fact.) Of course, there are glaring differences between the Mass Bay Colony and Virginia.
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Religion and the Founding of Virginia
When I was first assigned here two years ago, I was looking forward to catching the Hispanic spirit and culture. However, I soon learned that those in the local Evangelical Lutheran Church in America had struggled to reflect the demographics of our community.
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Lutherans past due in embrace of Hispanic community
Gerardo Marti This week afforded me a bit of reading and reflection through Heidegger’s Being and Time as part of my ongoing attempt to grow in my scholarship. As an ethnographer, I regularly immerse myself in religious communities both short and long term — see a recent post at Duke Divinity blog about a recent church visit — and as such am regularly confronted with what was introduced to me as “ the insider/outsider problem of religion .” The dilemma centers around a core question: Who is best able to understand religion, the committed or the agnostic? More important, what are the challenges and solutions for achieving a satisfactory understanding of religion (not just for scholars, but for everyone) considering one’s stance
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Heidegger and the Quandary of Insider/Outsider Roles in Religious Research: A Methodological Note
When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building
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The Upper Room is becoming the Living Room
Bishop Winston Halapua who is to be made BIshop of Polynesia and Archbishop and Primate (one of threee) in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia on Sunday next is reported by The Voxy News Engine to have said this: photo from Voxy News Engine ” The mission,” he said, “is simply to preach the Gospel, to teach theGospel, to live the Gospel – and to pass it on .” But the kind ofmission leadership he longs to offer, he says, will only become areality when he plunges into the lives of the people and thecommunities he’s been chosen to serve. Read the whole article HERE.
By Michael J. Altman As I’ve mentioned before, I’m spending the summer working through that wonderful mid-Ph.D-program rite of passage: studying for qualifying exams. I’ve also just finished another rite of passage for students of American religious history.
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Meditations on a Classic, or, American Religious History in the 21st Century