I would like to discuss “Rome’s Challenge.” No doubt you’ve heard of it. Back in September 1893, one James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, approved a four-piece article for his personal newsletter, the Catholic Mirror. The title was ” the Christian Sabbath.
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Rome’s Challenge
I herein respond to Eli’s plea that someone, anyone, with living offspring and functioning neurons address the pro-breeding ravings of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (RSB).
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Kids and BMWs, Ends and Means, Sense and Nonsense
Randall Stephens Check out an article by Krista Tippett, of Speaking of Faith fame, on her conservative, Southern Baptist grandfather. The Christian Century essay powerfully deals with her changing views about her Oklahoma family’s faith. Many who have migrated from the South or Midwest–geographically and/or ideologically–have undergone similar changes in outlook
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A Pilgrimage of Faith for a Midwesterner
Give Up is not just the title of the superb album by Postal Service, which gave us ” The District Sleeps Alone Tonight ,” ” We Will Become Silhouettes ,” ” Sleeping In ,” ” Such Great Heights ” and a number of other songs that deserve to be long and fondly remembered; it has become a notion for the current zeitgeist in American politics that I wish I couldn’t relate to: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c I Give Up – 9/11 Responders Bill www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
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Giving Up Is Wrong?
Matt Rediger tries to explain how legalized equality for gay people, affirmed in yesterday’s ruling [pdf] against California’s Proposition 8, violates freedom of religion. Rediger: [P]eople of faith cannot be expected to go against their beliefs, even if they view opposing beliefs and arguments as holding some kind of legitimacy. Two ethical systems can be legitimate, but they cannot necessarily exist in the same place at the same time
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Proposition 8 – It’s All Over but the Overheated Assertions and Poor Arguments
Claire and Marc Headley, who left Scientology in 2005, said the church controlled them with threats of harsh punishment and other tactics that prevented them from leaving the Sea Organization, Scientology’s religious order.
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Judge dismisses two lawsuits aimed at Scientology
Megachurches are no longer “Mega” these days. Unless, of course, you consider the megalomaniacs building these ornate and appalling edifices. Sure, some of them are huge because they have to be – see Willow Creek, The Potter’s House or Second Baptist Church for example
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Solomon’s Temple revisited: The worst megachurch yet
There have been claims that an English translation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji finds itself at home at NASA and that the NASA scientist turn to Guru Ji for inspiration. NASA has been quiet on this issue and there is no information available if any of the claims are true.
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Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji message to NASA —-Beat you to it….
Here is a small factoid I bet you didn't know about Dineen and I (Lynn). This blog was launched in May of 2006. Dineen was one of the first readers and she and I became fast friends. Within six months she and I became a team and have been writing and serving Jesus together ever since
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I Bet You Didn’t Know This
The Egyptian Muslim scholar and popular TV preacher angers some fundamentalists with statements such as, ‘The West is the victim of the Arabs, not the other way around.’ The mellifluous man in the sleek gray suit can make an Islamic radical wince in a nanosecond.
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A provocative voice of moderate Islam