It's all coming together for Steven Hyatt. Intentionally or not, the 27-year-old is combining his interest in religion and philosophy, which he studied as a student at the College of Charleston and Winthrop University, his experience as a technician and printer at Imaging Arts on King Street, his artistic eye and his fascination with the Holy City, his adopted home.
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Holy City sanctuaries
Paul Harvey This won’t be shocking news to a lot of readers of this blog, but an interesting column nonetheless: Charles Blow, ” Rise of the Religious Left ,” in yesterday’s NY Times . He begins: Which political party’s members are most likely to believe that Jesus will definitely return to earth before midcentury
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Rise of the Socially Conservative Religious Left
This is a Full-Time position with Arapahoe Christian Church in Arapahoe, Nebraska. Job Requirements: Full time pastor to hold Sunday morning services and wednsday night bible study, to call on members of the church or prospective members, interested in working with the youth, must have secretarial skills
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Full Time Preaching at Arapahoe Christian Church
Randall Stephens In honor of the weekend’s rockets red glare and wild competitive eating contests, I post here a couple of primary source items related to the National Reform Association.
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This Land is Our Land: Surprising or Otherwise Interesting Primary Sources, Part VIII, Fourth of July Edition
Active Christians Today is seeking an associate campus minister at their Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Campus Ministry with potential plans for the transitioning into the team ministry leader within the next two years. Bowling Green State University has 19,000 plus students on a beautiful campus in Northwest Ohio
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Bowling Green University – Campus Minister Position
I’m pleased today to guest post another contribution from Benjamin Park , a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh who normally blogs at Juvenile Instructor. Ben’s post concerns material he had researched for his master’s thesis, about reactions/responses to Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason to Christopher Hitchens to the Tea Party Movement
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The Strange Career of Thomas Paine
Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, MI has gone Universalist accepting everyone. Of course most Congregations accept anyone and welcome them to attend but this is a melding of Spiritual ideas and the cross is offensive to portions of the new progressive movement. So it was removed causing a stir in the media.
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Progressive Christian Church Removes Cross and Name
Chapter 6 Deceptions For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. — Matthew 24:24 From my own experience, and in the observation of many others, we all tend to make the same fundamental errors when it comes to the discernment of deceptions.
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Chapter 6 Methods of Deception
Pope Benedict XVI lashed out Sunday at what he called the “deplorable” raids carried out by Belgian police who detained bishops, confiscated computers, opened a crypt and took church documents as part of an investigation into priestly sex abuse.
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Pope deplores Belgian church sex abuse raids
For the next two weeks PRELUDIUM is taking off in a new direction. Barring great mutterings that make it all the way to the mesas in New Mexico and Arizona and the people of the land, there will not be much written here. Instead I may post, if I can find Internet connections, some pictures and comments on a wonderful Pilgrimage the St
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The Journey and the Destination are the Same (more or less).
This is a Full-Time position with Mission Christian Church in Sand Springs , Oklahoma. Job Requirements: Responsibilities to include Sunday morning sermon, hospital and home visitation, occasional classroom teaching, other duties as needed Application Requirements: “Applicant should possess a bible college dergree, with a graduate degree preferred and 5 years of church leadership experience.Please submit a resume”
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Full Time Preaching – Mission Christian Church
Randall Stephens I’ve been slogging through a chapter that deals with the evolution of the family values agenda, Christian psychology, and evangelical child rearing. It’s always harder when one moves further up in time.
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Make the Devil Mad, Go to Bob Jones U.
Ripley Church of Christ Big Prairie, OH Youth/ Full Time Ripley Church of Christ Big Prairie, OHYouth/ Full Time 12298 County Road 330 :: Big Prairie, OH 44611 Average Attendance: 285 Contact Information Tom Benter, Senior Minister tom.benter@ripleycoc.com Position Description Ripley Church of Christ, Big Prairie, Ohio is seeking a full-time Youth Minister to fill
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Full Time Youth Ripley Church of Christ
Woodruff Road Christian Church Greenville, SC Preaching/ Full Time 20 Bell Road :: Greenville, SC 29607 Contact Information Earl Nadeau search@lifechangingchurch.com Position Description Senior Minister Position: A full-time, paid Senior Minister, with responsibilities to include preaching, teaching, outreach, shepherding, staff supervision, and coordination of church ministry team leaders. Senior Minister reports to and works closely with
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Full Time Preaching – Woodruff Road Christian
The Archbishop of Canterbury proposed that The Episcopal Church participants in formal ecumenical dialogues between the Anglican Communion and other churches be removed and its participant in the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO) be recast as a “consultant” and removed as a participant. The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion did as proposed, and sent letters of dismissal and reduction in participation.
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Canon Kearon on Faith and Order: It is about troublesome TEC.
It’s no secret I have quite an aversion to Christian marketing “professionals” that can’t dream up ideas on their own. Instead, they steal pop culture references and logos, throw an ichthus on it and call it “divine revelation.” Huzzah.
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Touchdown Jesus gets struck down by Zeus. Thank God.
Following up on what has come to be called “mitergate” let us note the following from Canon Kenneth Kearon’s opening remarks to the Presiding Bishop at the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, meeting this last Friday. Canon Kearon asked that all of understand that his remarks were in the context of a conversation, one which he (and I think all of us) hoped would be dealt with as something not to be picked apart and dissected, but rather appreciated as a conversation.
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A Conversational apology, sort of, from The Secretary General
Bishop Ann Tottenham of the Anglican Church of Canada wrote Preludium with this comment: “For the record, I celebrated and preached at Southwark Cathedral on November 9, 2009 with the permission of the Powers-That-Be in the C.of E. in the presence of the Diocesan Bishop and fully vested including mitre.
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Bishop Ann Tottenham on the record re gratuitous Miter prohibition.
The Guardian’s Hugh Muir wrote in Guardian Diary “If the US Episcopal Church – still part of the worldwide Anglican communion despite having the temerity to elect gay bishops – feels nervous about the warmth of its welcome from the mothership that is the Church of England, perhaps there are reasons. Katharine Jefferts Schori , the presiding bishop of the US church and the first woman ever to lead an Anglican province, preached at Southwark Cathedral last weekend despite muted hisses of disapproval by conservative evangelicals.
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If this is true, what happened to hospitality?
According to a press release from the Anglican Church in North America, “The Anglican Church in North America has 614 congregations in 20 dioceses. More than 200 other congregations are ministry partners with the Anglican Church, including the congregations of The Anglican Mission. The Anglican Church represents more than 100,000 Christians in North America.” This is down by 200 from the more than 800 previously reported, although the number of persons continues at roughly the same 100,000.
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Anglican Church in North America numbers revised
Here’s a name from the past: Steve Hill. Name still not ringing a bell? Think about a church service happening nightly with a line around the building.
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Evangelist Steve Hill provides prodigals a map to come back home
The people who left The Episcopal Church in that part of Illinois that constitutes the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy have formed their own diocese (claiming it is the real and only one) now part of the Anglican Church in North America. They up and elected someone who claims to be a bishop to be their bishop.
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Alberto Morales elected by ACNA diocese of Quincy…what’s going on here?
Kantinho do Rev, the blog of the general secretary of the Episcopal / Anglican Church of Brazil is often a source of thoughtful analysis. Priest and lawyer Francisco Silva has written this observation which I am glad to post in its entirety
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Kantinho do rev on the removal of ecumenical representatives
This from a story by George Conger, first published in the Church of England newspaper . (Note the material highlighted in red.) “The Archbishop’s Pentecost letter is the public half of a campaign to rein in the Episcopal Church, The Church of England Newspaper has learned, and follows a private letter delivered to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asking her to consider withdrawing from active participation on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion. A letter from the Archbishop is believed to have been given to Bishop Jefferts Schori at the April 17 consecration of the Bishop of Connecticut, Dr Ian Douglas.
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Was the Presiding Bishop asked to step down?
Here we are in 2010, and as we watch the Catholic Church implode, let us spare a thought for those sheeple placing their shekels in the collection plates each week knowing that the group they have financially supported has covered up child rape and other forms of paedophilic abuse. The Pope will visit London in the Autumn and he expects to be greeted by a loud group of protestors who have enough of this charade, this parade of nonsense.
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Anti-Catholic? Moi?
The Virginia Supreme Court said the Circuit Court erred in the matter of the dispute between the Diocese of Virginia and The Episcopal Church vs. CANA, and required the Circuit Court “conduct further proceeding thereon consistent with the views expressed in this opinion.” So it is back to the lower court Here is what the last two paragraphs of the judgment say: “In light of our holding that the circuit court erred in granting the Code § 57-9(A) petitions, the control and ownership of the property held in trust and used by the CANA Congregations remains unresolved. Accordingly, the declaratory judgment actions filed by TEC and the Diocese, and the counterclaims of the CANA Congregations in response to those suits, must be revived in order to resolve this dispute under principles of real property and contract law.” “CONCLUSION For these reasons, we will reverse the judgment of the circuit court and remand with direction to dismiss the CANA Congregations’ Code § 57-9(A) petitions
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Resolution nearer in Virginia following correctives from Virginia Supremes
In the early Church, the practice of the sacrament of confession was not a very common affair. While there is certainly testimony to the confession of light sins in the sacrament of confession, it was most associated with severe sins that demanded a canonical and public penance.
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St. Augustine, Penance, and the Forgiveness of Sins