As your GetReligionistas have noted many times , it’s pretty obvious that many people — including more than a few mainstream reporters — are confused about the meaning of the word “evangelical.” Heck, I’m not sure that I know what that word means anymore and I used to be one. The Rev
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Christine O’Donnell, Catholic?
Full time minister Church Name Greenwich Church of Christ Affiliation Type Non-Denominational Affiliation Name Church of Christ Required education Bachelors Degree Average Worship Attendence 25 Start date 10/21/2010 Additional Information Parsonage Salary negotiable Some insurance Jim Eakins 8 Townsend St Greenwich, OH 44837 P:419-347-6070 F: Email: barbara_eakins@yahoo.com
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Full-Time Minister at Greenwich Church of Christ
From SSRN: Stephanie R. Hoffer, Caesar as God’s Banker: Using Germany’s Church Tax as an Example of Non-Geographically Bounded Taxing Jurisdiction , ( Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Forthcoming). Walker Humphrey, Dennis the Menace?: An Analysis of Whether the Episcopal Church’s Dennis Canon Entitles the Church to an Exemption from Neutral Trust Law , (September 27, 2010)
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Recent Articles of Interest
City tax authorities in four British cities– London, Westminster, Birmingham and Sunderland– have given the Church of Scientology property tax relief even though it is not classified as a charitable religious organization by the Charity Commission.
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British Cabinet Minister Criticizes Cities’ Tax Breaks For Scientology
Despite remarkable popularity and obsessive fans not seen since the head Deadhead died, Insane Clown Posse manages to attract little attention from music critics or cultural commentators. (For the uninitiated, look upon their wikipedia , ye mighty, and despair.) But despite the amazingly off-putting profanity and sexual imagery of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope’s horrorcore lyrics, clearly these two rappers have a powerful ability to connect with what I think it’s fair to characterize as an alienated and disaffected fan base.
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The carnival is God
All together now, let’s say the words of wisdom that I learned as a Baylor University undergraduate: No non-NoZe knows the no-nonsense, non-NoZe news that the NoZe knows. Let me stress that I was not a member of the NoZe Brotherhood during my years at Jerusalem on the Brazos. I definitely was not cool enough and there was a good chance that my GPA was not high enough (my stab at taking Hebrew was a disaster) — or both.
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Only the NoZe knows, you know?
Thursday night I had the pleasure of attending the Make a Difference concert in San Jose, CA. I've looked forward to this concert for weeks and got to go with two of my best friends from church. (Waving at you, Trish and Deb!) What a night! Standing there and watching Toby Mac, Third Day and Michael W
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Weekend Devo — We Rocked the House
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will have an open house today and later this month for a new meetinghouse in Bulverde designed to accommodate its nearly 3,600 members north of San Antonio and in the Texas Hill Country.
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Open house set for new Mormon facility in Bulverde
The recent merger of Mount Washington Baptist Church and the Greater New Home Baptist Church brought together two unlikely demographics. Predominantly white Mount Washington faced a dwindling membership. Greater New Home, a mostly black church, was running out of space.
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Churches find common ground in merger
The government is urging councils across the country to stop giving hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax breaks to the Church of Scientology . The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said a majority of the public did not want the “controversial organisation” to be given the kind of favourable treatment usually reserved for charities and questioned this use of public money.
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UK Government urges councils to stop giving tax breaks to Scientology