Episcopal Cafe notes that Fortune (the mag, rather than the really really powerful lady Fortune) lists Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as “a powerful female in the category of religion.” Here is a quote from her from Fortune, by way of the Cafe” “As a church in a rapidly evolving society, we have to be more nimble. .
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Presiding Bishop, Powerful Woman, speaks nimbly and with power.
The State isn’t in the business of determining what is ‘authentic” or not. So when a school expelled a 14 year old for violating the dress code by wearing a nose ring the mother took action. Mother and daughter both say the nose is a part of their religious devotion perhaps as much as a
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Judge Orders School To Take Church of Body Modification Girl
Randall Stephens I just attended a wonderful session at the 2010 Conference on Faith and History here at George Fox University, south of Portland, OR. This year’s program contains a wide range of panels and plenary sessions. See it here
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Mormonism and Historical Thought at the CFH
First Church of Christ, located in Bolivar, PA is seeking a full-time evangelist who is committed to proclaiming the Gospel message and the growth of God’s kingdom. We are a conservative, instrumental congregation located in a rural setting in southwestern PA (about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, PA)
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Full Time Evangelist at First Church of Christ
by Christopher Jones Glenn Beck initially drew my interest because of his Mormonism—I sensed in Beck’s conspiratorial approach to politics something reminiscent of an earlier generation of Mormon public figures. The pervading fear of socialist subversion, combined with the particularly Mormon interpretations and understandings of human agency, the methods and aims of satanic opposition, and the divinely-inspired nature of America’s Founding documents, were reminders both that the influence of Cleon Skousen and Ezra Taft Benson’s religio-political views still loomed large among a certain segment of the Mormon population and that in them lay a narrative that had the power to appeal to not only conservative Mormons but other embittered Americans as well, suspicious of the government and intent on rescuing the nation from secularism and immorality (and make no mistake, perceived secularism and immorality are as central to Beck’s movement as is some vague libertarian notion of fiscal responsibility ).
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Glenn Beck, Methodism, and "Black Founders"
Gerardo Marti Congregations and Social Change: Adaptation and Innovation among Religious Communities June 27 – July 22, 2011 I will be directing a research seminar at Calvin College next summer. I’ve met other readers and contributors from this blog during the oh-so-pleasant Michigan summers and enjoyed the stimulating dialogue and scholarly support encouraged through these seminars. This is an open invitation: Seminar Description This research seminar will closely examine the ongoing relationships between congregations and processes of broad ranging, societal change
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2011 Summer Research Seminar: Congregations and Social Change
In my last post , I went over the idea that “We are not saved by law, we are saved by grace through the shed blood of the Messiah.” I focused on what was left unsaid. I see that this reasoning is perfect, but it’s not really the true belief of Armstrongism. This time I would like to move forward and hit on repentance, from the Armstrongist perspective.
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Without Law There Is No Sin
I was driving in Madison (outskirts of Nashville, TN) and saw two Halloween stores within a few blocks. Stores devoted to Halloween! In between the two was a Party Story decked out with monsters and skeletons
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Should Christians Observe Halloween? Boo Humbug!
Paul Harvey In today’s New York Times , Samuel Freedman does a nice overview of the making of ” God in America ,” to be shown on PBS Oct. 11-13. A brief excerpt: Having always considered Jefferson “cerebral and slightly allergic to religion,” she recently recalled, [show producer Marilyn] Mellowes was instantly intrigued
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God in America and the New York Times
He says, “The Christian Church needs a spiritually strong and muscular Anglicanism to re-evangelize the West.” David Anderson, interloper bishop from Kenya, president of the American Anglican Council, opined t his bit of drivel in a larger essay in which he also put together his idea of what the “Global South bishops” should do if the Episcopal Church’s primate comes to the next meeting of the Primates. The suggestion is to throw her out of the meeting or pick up and move away from her to the next room
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Bishop David Anderson lives in la-la land.