Six years ago today, Douglas LeBlanc clicked his Mac mouse and GetReligion was born as a small website on TypePad. We had a simple goal, but one that was a bit hard to explain to folks on the outside. GetReligion was not and is not a site about religion news.
Read the original here:
GetReligion turns 6, believe it or not
Mark 5: 1-20 2 Sm 15: 13-14,30;16:5-13/Ps 3 “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won’t torture me!” (Mark 5:7) Avoid any form of obsession It will lead us away from the Lord; From the evil spirits’ possession, Be freed by the power of God’s Word. They went across the lake to
See original here:
The Demoniac of Gerasene
Hashivenu Messianic Judaism is open-minded, but faithful; contemporary, but traditional;…Hashivenu is a renewal movement within Messianic Judaism (see hashivenu. org)….I think if many of our critics from within Messianic Judaism and related groups came, they would be surprised to find a great deal of agreement with the ideas we d iscuss….If you care about Jewish-Christian relations, what’s going on in the future of Jewish Yeshua-faith, and the observant, traditional side of Messianic Judaism, w e are a large part of it….
View post:
Live-blogging Hashivenu 2010
Randall Stephens John Cotton was one of the most ambitious and bedeviled Puritan ministers of late-17th century New England. He was pastor of the Wethersfield, Conn., church in his early twenties. He lost the pulpit as the result of a sex scandal and subsequently worked as an Indian missionary on Martha’s Vineyard
Read more here:
Misunderstood Puritans, John Cotton, and Scandal in 17th-Century New England: An Interview with Sheila McIntyre and Len Travers
I don’t mean by the title, choosing which product to buy (although when I first moved back to the US after two years of living in Nepal, India and Thailand, I found that to be no easy task). Rather, I’m talking about making choices for where we devote our energy, choosing among options that are good. If we are on a spiritual path, our choice for where to devote our energies is generally not between a good and a bad choice
Read more:
Choosing Among Goods
I constantly tell my students that one of the hardest tasks in journalism is to write a balanced, insightful profile of a controversial person. This is especially hard to do here inside the Beltway, but that is not the topic of the day
Read more from the original source:
Nailing the Anglican timeline!
Americans hold a hodgepodge of religious beliefs and practices. Most (82 percent) of American adults believe in God, according to a recent Harris Poll. And large numbers believe in miracles (76 percent); heaven (75 percent); that Jesus is God or the Son of God (73 percent); in angels (72 percent); the survival of the soul after death (71 percent); and that Jesus was resurrected (70 percent).
Read the rest here:
Americans often blend faiths
About 100 clergy and community members, teachers, administrators, board members and candidates gathered Saturday to reflect and pray about the future of the Kansas City School District. The prayer breakfast, at Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church with the Concerned Clergy Coalition as host, did not feature political talk, but rather appeals for reconciliation and understanding.
See the original post here:
Prayer breakfast focuses on KC schools
In your spare time this weekend, consider taking a few minutes to read Devin Friedman’s lengthy GQ piece that gives the background leading up to the shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller. Scott Roeder was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder for shooting Tiller. Tiller was an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Kansas where he was handing out bulletins to people before he was shot on May 31, 2009.
Excerpt from:
Before the abortion doctor’s killing
A month ago, the United States Postal Service announced the commemorative postage stamps it plans to issue during 2010. One of the stamps will honor 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mother Teresa, a nun who worked among the impoverished in Calcutta, India
Read more:
FFRF Objects To Planned Mother Teresa Postage Stamp