Aided by faith, not to mention a few generous checks, church leaders announced Tuesday morning the completion of a $15.5 million fundraising campaign to preserve and restore the city’s Spanish colonial missions slightly more than two years after it originally began.
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Missions fundraising goal complete
Before the creation of the world, there existed the eternal dance of the Trinity. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit have always enjoyed a beautiful, responsive dance of love in perfect harmony. “The great dance is about abundant life—love, passion, joy, fellowship, and creativity.
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Dancing with the Trinity, Unity, & Humility
The following is an excerpt from Thomas Crane’s article, ” The new south, not what it once was .” “The South is changing and it’s doing so fast. The South is growing at a rate five times faster than the midwest and northeast, and during the next 30 years the South will become the most populous region in the nation. “Tyler Jones told the group gathered for the Advance the Church conference at Summit Church in Durham that evangelical churches are nowhere near close to keeping up with this type of growth
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The New South: growing less Christian
And the famous bloggers at Caminante and Three Rivers Episcopal were there with your humble servant, the blogger also known as Preludium, pushing words around up at The Episcopal Church office on Second Avenue, along with the Rector of all the Bowery and the Bishop of a chunk of Michigan. We were working on Anglican Covenant stuff. Down below protesting on the streets were these noble sons of Brooklyn, who were in a rage about the State of Israel messing with graves of their ancient ones.
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New York, New York, its a wonderful town…
Conference Call for Papers Divided by Faith : A Decade Retrospective The John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University invites proposals for an interdisciplinary conference commemorating the tenth anniversary of Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith’s groundbreaking book, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America , to be held on the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana, on October 15-16, 2010.
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Divided by Faith: Conference and CFP
Ruth Gledhill, that is, not Babe Ruth (r.i.p). Ruth Gledhill writing for Times Online has posted an article titled, ” For the sake of God, Anglican Church must put aside its differences.” She writes, “In other words, the infighting over homosexuality means that for the 77 million Anglicans worldwide, more important than the Resurrection, the Crucifixion, the Virgin Birth and the Trinity is what one person does in bed with another.
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Ruth hits a big one for the Anglican Communion…
Akasha Lonsdale, a therapist and interfaith minister, has published “Do I Kneel or Do I Bow?,” a concise guide to the ceremonies of various faiths. When Akasha Lonsdale was a child in London, her agnostic family prohibited her from participating in religious services at the Church of England school she attended. Required to sit at the back of a Hebrew class for the school’s Jewish students, she befriended a girl whose family invited her to the Friday night Sabbath meal
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Eight major world religions meet up in a book
By DAVID YONKE BLADE RELIGION EDITOR Local faith communities might be reaping a bumper crop this fall, literally, with visions of produce and vegetables growing in abundance. Woody and Judy Trautman, who cofounded the MultiFaith Council of Northwest Ohio in 2003, are working hard to get as many churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques in the Toledo area to start gardening. In addition to 16 houses of worship that already have gardens, the Trautmans have helped several other congregations, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist groups, to start digging in – literally – this spring
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Feeding body and spirit: Area groups digging into gardening
ASSOCIATED PRESS LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty University plans a formal investigation into questions about the background of the school’s seminary president, who says he was raised as devout Muslim in Turkey and converted to Christianity as a teen.
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Falwell’s Liberty University investigates claims president from Ohio made about Muslim past
Not every story has a religion angle, but it’s amazing how many do. Take, for example, the recent Washington Post news feature that ran with the perfectly boring headline, “Va.
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God and the ‘Granny pod’ debate