If you were looking for cutting-edge discussions of gay theology back in the 1980s, all you had to do was head on over to the Iliff School of Theology , the United Methodist campus attached to the University of Denver. As one former faculty member of the university once told me, Iliff in that era was “the most liberal institution in American that still called itself Christian.” One of the strengths of an openly liberal institution is that it’s a great place to learn that not all liberals think alike. True, it was hard to find anyone at Iliff who believed that the Resurrection was a actual event in history, as opposed to a concept in the hearts and minds of early Christians, but it was easy to find people with different liberal views on other issues.
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Twin rocking chairs for gay Lutherans?
August 22nd, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxA friend sent me this transcript from the close-captioning of the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly video of President Gerald Kieschnick’s remarks delivered a couple hours ago to the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.Over the years in my life in ministr
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LCMS President’s Remarks to the ELCA Assembly
A taxi driver on the island of Menorca in the Balearic Islands did a wonderful thing last week .It has put back one’s faith in humanity .This man ,who is not paid a lot of money ,discovered a wallet in the back of his cab which had been left by one of his fares.The wallet contained 60,000 euros plus other financial things such as cheque books . The temptation to have kept such a find must have been enormous in the depth of this economic crisis .However once this taxi driver had delivered his n
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Balearic Island Taxi Driver’s Honesty
This morning I thought of a rather strong presumptive reason not to believe that UFOs are really visiting Earth: the lack of radio communication between alleged alien spaceships nearby. And I actually haven’t seen this discussed before, so what’s up with that? If I’m making a strong objection, why isn’t it discussed prominently anywhere else?
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Blogging UFOs: If UFOs are Indeed Buzzing about in Our Local Skies, Why Wouldn’t We Pick Up Radio Signals of their Interspaceship Communications?
Henry B. Eyring spoke to BYU students in 1997 and gave them a wonderful charge: “You are under mandate to pursue – not just while you are here, but throughout your lives – educational excellence.” He told them they must do so “while avoiding pride, the great spiritual destroyer,” and further counseled, “[N]ot only can you pursue educational excellence and humility at the same time to avoid spiritual danger but that the way to humility is also the doorway to educational excellence.
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Five characteristics of great learners
Translation:Praise be to Alllah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah bless His chosen trustworthy servant, our liege-lord Muhammad; the one who brought to us guidance and the religion of clear truth. May Allah bless him, his pure family, his noble and blessed companions and those who follow in their footstep till the Day of recompense.To proceed:To our brothers (and sisters), and our beloved for the sake of Allah Most High, the people of Laa ilaaha illa Allah Muhammadur-Rasulullah, the Muslims of
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Shaykhuna al-Habib Umar’s Ramadan Message!
Lelilani Avril turned two years old this month! Lolo & Lola brought a shiny red Radio Flyer tricycle. Life has been busy and fun these last several weeks… although I must confess that I have really missed writing here in my blog. My schedule has kept me away, as I have traveled nearly 5,000 miles since my last post–working hard to put together my leadership teams in all four corners of the state for this great church planting effort I am directing over the next year. I am more than h
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Churches, Pirates, Pentecostals & Rattlesnakes
Lutherans Lift Barrier for Gay Clergy — LATimes.com An insightful quote from the article: “The resolutions drew tearful testimony from supporters and opponents, both of whom cited the Bible in their arguments.” Another tragic victim of Sola Scriptura in Protestantism; Lord have mercy! May the Holy Spirit lead the faithful in these heretical sects to embrace the Truth of Christ found in His One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church — refusing to hold the traditions of men above
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Lutherans Lift Barrier for Gay Clergy
As most American denominations have more or less accommodated themselves to the culture around them, the Amish and their countercultural ways have remained a topic of fascination to their fellow citizens. Only a 20-minute drive from where my family lives, Lancaster County has made an industry of Amish life — some Amish participate in reaching out to tourists who want to vicariously experience Amish life. Given the big market for “clean” romance targeting conservative Christian readers, it seems reasonable that entrepreneurial non-Amish writers would use the Amish as subjects — and make a nice living doing so
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No melodrama please, we’re Amish
This is from the same organization which was responsible for packing Sherrod Brown’s sham town hall at OSU with union goons and leftist crazies. Who wants to go? Join us for a candlelight vigil and peaceful procession from one downtown Columbus church to another as we “Shine Our Light on Health Care.” This event will be an opportunity to reflect on the spiritual roots of our work to support health care reform – highlighting the moral aspects of the issue, and remembering the real-life cons
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Attention Brooks Brothers Birgade! ProgressOhio’s “Candlelight Vigil” for Socialism
Archaeologists working on a dig at the ruined Romanesque Cathédrale Sainte-Marie on the summit of Nice’s colline du Château in June-July this year have discovered what remains of a palaeo-Christian basilica underneath the cathedral. Ceramic shards from the period enabled experts to date the latter building to the Vth century AD. Aside from the foundatins, little remains of the original basilica – due to the fact that later builders working on such sites always recycled stones from the original
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Beneath these pavements …
by AlexinCT One of the big things the collectivists in power did when they got control of all three branches of government after the last election cycle, was to pass new and sweeping credit card legislation to prevent the greedy credit card companies from screwing irresponsible and stupid people that spent beyond their means and got themselves in deep debt. As usual government meddling has had the exact opposite effect as they wanted , and it is hurting those of us that are not complete and
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Cumartesi, 22 Ağu 2009bahad1ryorum ekleyorumlara git Amerika Birleşik Devletleri bütün İslam Âlemi’nin Ramzanı kutluyor. Hem de Arapça, Bengalce, Darice, Endonezce, Farsça, Fransızca, Hintçe, İngilizce, Pencapça, Peştuca, Rusça, Türkçe ve Urduca dillerinde açılımlarda mevcut..Arapça, Bengalce, Darice, Endonezce, Farsça, Fransızca, Hintçe, İngilizce, Pencapça, Peştuca, Rusça, Türkçe ve Urduca için aşağıa göz atmanız yeterli..Yukardakini kullanamadım diyenler için konuşma metninin İngilizce ve Tü
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Ramazan ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nın Açılımı
There is a reason the fake health care debate has been the biggest event in America since we interned Japanese humans.There is a reason Obama’s team chose to “tackle” health care reform instead of prosecutions and tribunals. Everyone’s in on it, and none of the involved are very interested in hanging themselves.Your mission for today is to ignore the health care scare. What will happen to it has nothing to do with what you want and everything to do with who profits the most.Instead, fire up yo
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Health Care Killed the Democracy Star
I just finished reading A Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church which I got courtesy of The Ooze Viralbloggers. As Dr. Alex McFarland has said, “This book is for all who are broken over the fact that our nation is spiritually bankrupt, despite a well funded American Christian industry and thousands of Dolby-surround-sound-equipped churches.In his insightful critique of the evangelical movement and its excesses the book’s author, Warren Cole Smith, takes on such topics as “The Evangelical
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July 9, 2009.
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Christopher Hitchens – Axis of Evil (7 of 7) – Religion & Misc.
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR The nation’s economic woes are having an impact on the local Christian radio scene. Toledo-based Christian rock station YES-FM (89.3) will interrupt its regular programming Tuesday to ask listeners to help it out of a financial bind caused by an unprecedented drop in donations. “It’s just a one-day ’share-a-thon,’ but if we don’t make our goal of $20,000 we might reach into a second day because as of the end of this month, we’re out of operating money,” said the Rev
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Economy squeezes Christian radio
By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Even though the Rev. Mark Chavez believes the leaders of his church made a decision in direct contradiction of the Bible by lifting a ban on sexually active, monogamous gays and lesbians as clergy, he said he’s staying with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. “I’m not leaving,” Chavez said Friday night, promising an effort to keep the church moving even further toward what he sees as an embrace of behavior condemned by Scripture.
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Conservatives mull future after Evangelical Lutheran Church of America lifts gay ban
A Republican candidate for the 47th District in Virginia’s House of Delegates is taking a stand that may surprise some members of his party: A candidate for office in Arlington who wants to get rid of the state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, eliminate the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow the county government to give domestic-partner benefits to unmarried members of the government workforce? Sounds like it’s pretty standard stuff for a Democrat. But comi
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Republican HoD Candidate Calls For Repeal Of Virginia’s Gay Marriage Amendment
Fair and balanced — that doesn’t apply to the Democrat and Chronicle. Did you see Jill Terri’s front page story in yesterday’s paper criticizing Maggie Brooks for questioning the wisdom of New York State handing out $200 for “school supplies”? She really went out of her way to do a balanced story. She talked to several recipients who said they needed the money. Then she talked to an African-American minister who said the money came in handy.
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Democrat and Chronicle Story — Welfare Recipients Appreciate Free Money
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August 22nd, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxOh, how easy it would be for us who disagree so strongly with the ELCA to be so filled with upset and anger that we allow ourselves to miss an opportunity the Lord is providing to us for introspection and then for bold confession and reaching out with the truth, speaking it clearly, forthrightly and unashamedly, yet speaki
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Repent, Watch and Be on Guard: Avoiding the Pious Lie
For many parents contemplating a divorce or dissolution of their marriage, a primary concern is which parent shall have “custody” of the child or children of the marriage. I shall begin the article by addressing the differences between the two parenting systems in Ohio – “sole custody” and “shared parenting”. The parents have different names or titles: In a situation where one parent has “sole custody” of the child/children, that parent is designated as the “residential parent and legal cus
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The Legal Distinctions Between “Sole Custody” Versus “Shared Parenting”
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has officially started today so what better time for President Obama to follow up his Cairo speech and try to reach out to Muslims across the world? Like many people of different faiths who have known Ramadan through our communities and families, I know this to be a festive time – a time when families gather, friends host iftars, and meals are shared. But I also know that Ramadan is a time of intense devotion and reflection – a time when Muslims fast during th
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Decoding Obama’s ramadan message
After much deliberation, we decided to go on our whale watching tour with Freedom III , a reasonably new vessel that is already fast gaining a reputation as the best in the fleet of whale watching tours on offer. We were attracted by the extra time they offered out with the whales, the more personalised, smaller group they take and the great reviews we’d heard about the food! And we were not disappointed. I’ve always wanted to go whale watching so this was quite an exciting day for me. A
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Whale Watching On Freedom III
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