Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy: Spirituality in Daily Life, Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron A kind heart is one of the principal things we are trying to develop. If we run around childishly telling others, “I’m this religion, and you’re that religion.
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Chocolate Frosting and Garbage, Thubten Chodron Buddhist quote
I recently enjoyed reading The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. In the book they suggest that the role of the pastor has shifted from religious service provider to CEO in many churches. But they also suggest there needs to be a further shift, to trainer (i.e.
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Job Description?
We welcome the following guest post from Samira Mehta, a graduate student in American Religious Cultures at Emory University who is writing a dissertation on Christian/Jewish interfaith families in the U.S.
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Nikki Haley and the Construction of South Asian Identity
Today’s guest post comes to us from our Senior Norwegian correspondent Hilde Løvdal, who posted here last year on ” The Adventures of a Norwegian in Colorado Springs .” Today she sends her exploration of the influence of contemporary Christian music in her homeland. People often ask me why I am so fascinated by American evangelicalism
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The Oslo Soul Children and the Cowboy Twins
Last night I read the homily given by Archbishop Oscar Romero during a Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday in 1977, which spoke about the way in which the day’s celebration reminds us of the great works of the Holy Spirit. One of the works of the Holy Spirit Romero highlighted was the transmission of the “unique priesthood of Christ, who is also king and prophet” to those who have been baptized, a transmission that “enables them to be a priestly, royal and prophetic people.” We don’t tend to remember and don’t always take seriously the idea that when we were baptized, we received an anointing with chrism as “a visible representation of the fact that this child of the flesh was incorporated into the Church, into the People of God, into this priestly, royal and prophetic people.” Yet it is something that is important to remember
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Priest, Prophet and King
Al Shabab, an Islamic faction in Somalia, says it is behind two bombings in Kampala that killed at least 74 people watching Sunday’s World Cup final. The group, tied to Al Qaeda, vows more attacks. A powerful Al Qaeda-affiliated militant faction in Somalia claimed responsibility Monday for two bomb attacks in Uganda’s capital that killed at least 74 people who had gathered to watch a broadcast of Sunday’s World Cup championship game, sparking fears that Somalia’s long and bloody conflict may spill into neighboring countries
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Somali militant group claims responsibility for Uganda blasts
This is the kind of question that can easily become a strongly held conviction. But should it? Well, people do benefit from seeing the text, and seeing it in the same translation as the speaker, and without the hassles, distraction, or potential embarressment of having to look it up in their own Bible, which of course, they may not have. On the other hand, people who don’t need to bring their Bibles to church, won’t bring their Bibles to church, and won’t develop the ability to look up references, nor to see passages in their contexts – instead getting used to the idea that verses stand alone in picturesque vacuums
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Should Bible Text Be Projected?
What began as a messy divorce between father and son, debt at Crystal Cathedral causing the lights to get cut off and then Dad thinking his son can do his own power thing and Girl Schuller can do it, has now led to this: Dad is “retiring”. Or is he
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Robert Schuller is hanging up the robe… again?
As I wrote the other day, one of the books I am currently reading is Brother David Steindl-Rast’s, Deeper than Words , each chapter of which is devoted to a different line of the Apostles’ Creed. The first part of each chapter is his attempt to “pry open the hard shell of preconceived notions that tend to form around set expressions we hear or use too often.” Among the chapters that have really struck me is the one titled “Suffered Under Pontius Pilate.” Because Brother Daviid’s central claim is that the Creed is not “an enumeration of facts that Christians hold to be true, but a multifaceted profession of faith in God,” he views the claim in the Creed that Jesus “suffered under Pontius Pilate” as something that must have significance beyond the mere historical reality that a man named Jesus suffered under a representative of the Roman Empire named Pilate. Instead, the juxtaposition of this line with the preceding claim that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary draws our attention to opposite poles: there a woman who gives life, here, the man who kills; there, the vulnerable virgin, here, the powerful politician; there, a new beginning in the power of the Spirit, here, its destruction by the spirit of power
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Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
Union Missionary Baptist Church Request free DVD or CD of this message from genebrooks@yahoo.com. Include your mailing address. Opening thought : It is no secret that we are living in desperate times.
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Isaiah 13-20: Hope in the midst of the storm