In today’s RNB Religion News Roundup: lawyers hope Tony Alamo won’t speak; cult leader Alan Bushey faces sentencing; No deal on rape charge for man whose marriage to underage sect member led to conviction of FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs. Also: While providing marriage counseling, two associate pastors concealed that a third pastor was having an affair with a man’s wife. Then: A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a charge against an avowed white supremacist accused of threatening a juror
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RNB’s Religion News Roundup: Tony Alamo, Alan Bushey, Allen Steed, Johnny McGowan and more…
The most recent issue of the Journal of Mormon History actually arrived a little while back, but I’ve been slow to post this. Since the next will be here soon, I’d better get this out! I’ll be more prompt next time! First, the JMH has published Philip Jenkins’ 2008 Tanner Lecture entitled “Letting Go: Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa.” Jenkins observes of Christian (Catholic, Protestant, etc.) growth in Africa, “Missions in Africa are rather like gardening in Florida: Plant some seeds
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The Journal of Mormon History, Spring 2009 (35:2), Part 1
When covering foreign affairs (or even religion news), journalists often end up needing to mention the names of documents, institutions or groups — in the original language. Readers get used to seeing this. For example, the Los Angeles Times recently ran an essay that referred to Pope Benedict XVI’s “just-released encyclical, ‘Caritas in Veritate’ (Love in Truth).” The logic is that some readers might know the meaning of that Latin phrase, but not many.
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What does Lashkar-e-Taiba mean?
Recently here, I reported how moved I once was by the words of Latin Mass priest in Ireland who regretted a contemporary tendency in the Church to de-emphasise the need for the Sacrament of Confession. His point was that people who availed themselves less often of this Sacrament, availed themselves less of the “Sanctifying Grace” which it offered.Again, what I admired was that this was a case where the supernatural reality of the Sacraments was taken absolutely seriously. And it seems to me that
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Materialism, Truth and the Catholic Mystery
Guardian:-Communion wine is not being offered in some churches amid fears over swine flu.Some church leaders have made the decision just to distribute bread rather than offering the chalice to the congregation during Holy Communion services.The Archdiocese of Liverpool, which represents the Catholic church in Liverpool, said yesterday that some churches had taken the precaution but added that it was a decision made by individual churches, following its guidance, and they had not told churches wh
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Churches stop offering communion wine to halt spread of swine flu
“With a new solo album in stores and spinning on the radio from coast to coast, Transcendence singer-guitarist Ed Hale will jet from Vancouver, British Columbia to his hometown of New York City for a day, then on to Cartagena, Colombia in South America, then Sao Paulo, Brazil, and then of all places Lahore, Pakistan for three days before returning home for what one assumes will be some much needed sleep.” Recording and promoting a new album in the music world of today is a cookie-cutter proces
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Peace, Love, and Mortar – Recording Artist Ed Hale Releases Tour Schedule Blazing a Refreshingly New Non-Traditional Approach
As a preacher it is important to know the big shape of the book you are preaching. It is also important to communicate it. Too many Christians see the books of the Bible as a random assortment of random chunks. Our preaching should not exacerbate that lack of macro awareness. While preaching a passage it is helpful for our listeners to hear how this piece fits in the whole message of the book. We won’t agree on every attempt to “macro frame” a Bible book, but we should agree that people need to recognize the unity and flow of the books. The first three chapters of Ephesians describe the calling of believers as church – a body united in Christ Jesus. Then from 4:1 on the book is concerned with the conduct of believers as church – a body living out its unity in Christ Jesus. Calling: Conduct. Overly simplistic? Maybe, but better than only having random details or a couple of favorite verses.
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Macro Framing
Posted on July 22nd, 2009Author: Bridging the Gap, Henry Funtecha, ◙ The News Today Janiuay is one of the municipalities of the province of Iloilo. It is an interior town about a thirty-minute jeepney ride distance from Iloilo City and is located on plain land by the southeast and on partly hilly land by the northwest. It is bounded by three other municipalities: Maasin in the south, Lambunao in the north and Mina in the east.The town was formerly called Matagup and was just initially a visita
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Looking back at some grand old structures in Janiuay, Iloilo
Way back in the recesses of deep time, my thesis advisor knew Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr . — that’s how I found out he was called “Skip” before there was anything like wikipedia to warehouse data such as that — and he made overtures to me to apply to study with “Skip.” Looking back, I’m glad I was too stupid to take my advisor up on that, because it turns out that Skip Gates is a Terrifying Angry Black Man who probably would have killed me: Police arrived at Gates’s Ware Street home near Harvard Square at 12:44 p.m.
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Skip the Impaler
This Saturday is the deadline for the presentation of signatures to the Washington Secretary of State so as to put on the ballot a proposition to reverse the state legislature’s vote for Domestic Partnership enhancement. If enough signatures are not collected, the bill will become law, granting to Washington’s gay couples virtually all of the rights, privileges and responsibilities of marriage. To reach the ballot, Referendum 71 will need 120,577 valid signatures and should turn it at least
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Washington’s Referendum 71 Deadline