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
It’s Marriage Monday over with e-Mom of Chrysalis . July’s topic, “Blessing Our Parents” taps into the joys of extended family. How are we incorporating the older generation into our married lives in healthy ways? Of the topic choices, I selected: • Long-Distance Grand-parenting: What Works for Us If you are a blogger, please join in the fun. If you are not a blogger, oh please, share with me your experience in the comments here
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Marriage Monday – Let’s Take a Candy Break
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
The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founder of Southern California’s Crystal Cathedral megachurch and host of the Hour of Power televangelism broadcast, announced Sunday he will retire as lead pastor after 55 years in the pulpit and his daughter will take over.
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Hour of Power pastor Robert Schuller retiring
Randall Stephens A review essay in the July 2 issue of the TLS is well worth the read (though it doesn’t appear to be on-line). It gives some perspective on whatever counts as “secularization” in the United States.
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Everything is Bigger than Jesus in England