Barrington High School senior Daniel Santoro can’t wait to strut across the stage of Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois to accept his diploma. But the fact that he’ll be marching where pastors normally preach on Sundays irks some advocates for the separation of church and state. They say public school graduations don’t belong in a house of worship.
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Graduations in churches make some groups uneasy
The nineteenth century South saw the rise of Old Landmarkism , a controversial group of Baptists who asked the right questions at the wrong time and influenced Southern Baptist life up to today in many churches. The term Landmarkism is derived from their battle cry, Proverbs 28:22; 23:10, “Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.” The forced organization and centralization of the missionary movement in the South into two Boards along with Baptists’ flexible polity of local church autonomy led to questions from well-meaning Baptist leaders about the doctrine of the church. Biblically, they asked, what is a true church?
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The Old Landmarkers
In the post-War swirl of nineteenth century America, with the rise of the corporation, industrialization, dislocation of families, large numbers of immigrants, the theory of evolution, and technological advancements, the religious thought of Americans was undergoing profound challenges. Those who accommodated themselves to evolution and utilitarian philosophy of science found themselves among the rise of religious liberalism. Because these philosophies remove Deity from their worldview and replace it with naturalism, religious liberals consequently had a high view of humanity and believed, because of the new evolutionary model, that given enough time and resources, we can solve all our own problems without God, producing ourselves a better creation and a better humanity.
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Rise of Baptist liberalism (1870-1922)
The head of Canada’s Anglican Church appealed Friday to hundreds of bishops, priests and laypeople that they not let talks on the thorny issue of same-sex unions further divide the church or take on the rancour of the past.
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Anglicans try again to find same-sex blessings consensus
Throughout Scripture God is seen as sovereign and providentially involved in all aspects of life. When there were natural disasters in Israel, the prophets called the people to respond to the God who created everything. When war or famine hit, they interpreted it in light of the covenant they were under, but also always recognizing and promoting the reality of a God who is present and immanent and involved. Today we see two concerning alternatives: Alternative A – God is Absent
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Biblical Worldview and Ours
WASHINGTON — American churches have less than two weeks to change their wireless microphone equipment or face more than $100,000 in fines. In January, the Federal Communications Commission mandated that anyone using wireless microphones on the 700 MHz band must stop by June 12 in order to make room for use by police, fire and emergency services.
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Churches scramble to meet FCC rules on wireless mics
Wednesday June 2nd was amazingly informative about the state of affairs in the Anglican Communion. The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Bishop Katharine, wrote a pastoral letter that was graceful, theologically sound and clear in its implications for the life of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote Pentecost Letter, in which he either suggests or by right as appointing officer orders that members of The Episcopal Church serving on ecumenical dialogue groups for the Anglican Communion withdraw from full membership.
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Bishop Katharine writes a pastoral letter. Anglican Communion office opens twitter shop
Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said Wednesday that he will launch a new church from his Colorado Springs home, 3 1/2 years after he resigned from his ministry amid an embarrassing and devastating sex scandal. Haggard said he doesn’t know how many people will attend his new church, but he said the ordeal he and his wife, Gayle, went through has prepared them to help others.
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Ted Haggard to start new church in Colo. Springs
Ofttimes in the world of law enforcement, the bad guys get away. Then, with some due diligence, the bad guys gets caught and are thrown in the pokey
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Baptist girl raped by church member, forced to apologize then relocated
by Phillip Luke Sinitiere Ted Haggard , whose ministerial career seemingly ended amidst a gay sex scandal is 2006, is back in the news. The former minister of New Life Church, and former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, announced today that he and his family have organized a new congregation in Colorado Springs: Saint James Church . It is likely the church takes its name from the New Testament epistle of James, a book that encourages perseverance in the midst of trials.
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Ted Haggard and Saint James Church