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  • How to Teach Salvation: Three Mysteries

    The Scriptorium
    fredsanders
    14 May 2012 | 2:44 pm
    There are three great mysteries in Christian theology: the Trinity, the incarnation, and the atonement. These three mysteries are all mysteries of unity: The mystery of the Trinity is how the three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) are the one, only God. The mystery of the incarnation is how the divine nature is united to… [Continue Reading]

  • The Ascension: Christ Among Us, Christ Above Us

    The Scriptorium
    Peter David Gross
    14 May 2012 | 7:54 pm
    My awesome little Baptist church follows the church calendar (Yes, that’s right.), and this Thursday is Ascension Day. After preaching at our midweek service last year, I became the church’s unofficial Ascension nut, and I’m getting ready to preach again. It’ll be our third sermon on the Ascension, each with a different approach, and between the… [Continue Reading]

  • The worst Anti-Mormon comment ever!

    Mormon Apologetic Research Studies
    Timothy Berman
    12 Mar 2012 | 3:46 am
    The following is from a scamming so-called Christian Ministry. The person only calls themselves “Admin 3″ and truly show the depravity of the cult like behavior of the Anti-Mormon Camp. Yes, this, in its entirety, is the “intellecual, academic, and … Continue reading →

  • I'd rather be a Catholic than be 'respectable' | Catherine Pepinster

    World news: Religion | guardian.co.uk
    Catherine Pepinster
    16 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    Hilary Mantel says the Catholic church is no longer a place for 'respectable people'. But respectability is a problematic notion One of the heartaches of being a Roman Catholic in recent years has been the clerical abuse scandal. No pain that any of us suffers from discovering that some of our priests abused children – and even worse – that senior clergy covered up their crimes – can compare with the victims' plight, of course, but it has knocked for six many devout Catholics' faith. Some have left the church because of it; others are certainly more sceptical, or even more cynical about…

  • Film Review: Thrive – What On Earth Will It Take?

    Evolving Beings
    Evita Ochel
    1 May 2012 | 11:30 pm
    The world is waking up. This is one of the tag lines used in the newly released documentary Thrive and there is no doubt about that. Whether you see it as the ending of a cycle, a shift of...
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    WordPress.com News

  • Stay In The Conversation

    Beau Lebens
    15 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog. We made the initial changes last week and after great feedback from you we just launched an update. Here’s how it works: By default, posting a comment…

  • Look at These Gorgeous Blogs

    Sheri
    15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing with WordPress.com themes and customizations by clicking a thumbnail to see a colophon-style list of credits on the left. We’ve also updated footer links so blog owners can show off the types of customizations they’ve made and visitors can…

  • Photo Blogging 101, Part 1

    Erica V.
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. Getting started Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including…

  • New Themes: Just Desserts and Oxygen

    Michelle Langston
    10 May 2012 | 8:11 am
    Happy Thursday! We’ve added some exciting new themes to our ever-growing collection, and we’re happy to tell you all about them. First out of the oven is…Just Desserts. Yep, that’s a theme! Designed by Andy Rutledge, Just Desserts is a deliciously stylish premium theme that’s perfect for blogs centered on food. With its responsive, single-column layout and unique presentation of images and posts on the front page, Just Desserts gives you a delectable canvas on which your mouthwatering photos and text can really shine — even when viewed on smaller mobile devices…

  • Find Friends Who Use WordPress

    Nick Momrik
    1 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites! After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don’t worry — none of this account information is saved!) you’ll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites. Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow. If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the…
 
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    AllAfrica News: Religion

  • Africa: Syrian Christians Live in Uneasy Alliance With Bashar Assad

    16 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    [ENI] Damascus - Hani Sarhan is a Christian who says none of his relatives works with Bashar Assad's regime or has anything to do with it.

  • Ghana: WMCI Celebrates 25th Anniversary

    16 May 2012 | 10:27 am
    [Ghanaian Chronicle] For a healthy lifestyle and the promotion of peace, the World Miracle Church International (WMCI), over the weekend, embarked on a health and peace walk to mark the church's 25th Anniversary.

  • Africa: Bishops Warn of Corporate Greed Threatening Survival of World's Poor

    16 May 2012 | 7:42 am
    [Christian Aid] Seventeen Catholic Bishops are calling on the European Union to tackle corporate secrecy and tax dodging which deprive the world's poorest countries of more than £100 billion a year.

  • Zimbabwe: Municipal Inspector Jailed for Duping Pastor U.S.$3 100

    16 May 2012 | 6:25 am
    [The Herald] A CHITUNGWIZA Municipal inspector, who duped his pastor of US$3 100 in a deal for a residential stand was yesterday sentenced to six months in prison. Mauto Shoriwa (38) of Unit F denied fraud charges when he appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Ms Olivia Mariga.

  • Zimbabwe: Magacha Unveils New Album 'Mapostori'

    16 May 2012 | 4:23 am
    [The Herald] Talented gospel artiste Sabastian Magacha has recorded a new album, titled "Mapostori" that is set to top gospel charts in Zimbabwe. The five-track album that is expected to hit the streets anytime soon, has a number of well thought out songs, that revere the Lord and call for Christians to strengthen their faith in face of calamities and challenges.
 
 
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    About.com Catholicism

  • Welcome to Rockford, Bishop Malloy!

    15 May 2012 | 6:24 am
    At any given time, there are roughly 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world. Collectively known as the College of Bishops, these men—the heirs to the apostles—are responsible for the shepherding of souls. It's a breathtakingly awesome responsibility, and we lay Catholics all too often forget what it means to say that God has called a man to the episcopate. There's nothing quite like an episcopal ordination to remind you. On May 14, 2012, the Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle, my son Stephen and I had the privilege of attending the episcopal ordination and installation of Bishop David…

  • Once a Bishop, Always a Bishop

    15 May 2012 | 5:23 am
    In a recent issue of the twice-weekly About Catholicism newsletter (you do subscribe, don't you?), I wrote: Many people--even some Catholics--do not realize that there are multiple levels of ordination. We're familiar with ordination to the priesthood, and those who have either permanent or transitional deacons in their parish know that deacons receive ordination, too. But since we talk most often about the elevation or installation of a bishop, the fact that he receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders once again tends to get ignored. I was writing those words in the context of the (then…

  • Ascension Thursday Sunday?

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    A reader writes: Why is Ascension Thursday a Holy Day of Obligation in some areas [of the United States] and not others? This is a very good question. The simple, but confusing, answer is that Ascension is a Holy Day of Obligation everywhere in the United States. It's just that, in most dioceses, the celebration is transferred from Thursday (40 days after Easter) to the following Sunday. (So, in 2012, Ascension Thursday will be May 17, but Ascension will be celebrated in most dioceses on Sunday, May 20.) Since Catholics are already obligated to attend Mass on Sunday, most people don't realize…

  • The 95th Anniversary of Fatima

    13 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    On May 13, 1917, on a hillside outside Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children saw a lady "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun." For the next six months, on the 13th day of each month, Our Lady of Fatima appeared to Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. The final apparition, on October 13, 1917, was accompanied by the "Miracle of the Sun." As many as 70,000 people saw the sun dance in the sky, then plunge toward the earth. The sheer…

  • When Words Lose Their Meaning: President Obama Endorses "Marriage Equality"

    11 May 2012 | 6:11 am
    On Wednesday, May 9, 2012, President Barack Obama admitted, to the utter surprise of approximately three people in the entire United States, that "I think same-sex couples should be able to get married." Or rather, he hemmed and hawed for about 15 seconds before finally getting to the point of his "revelation," in a convoluted sentence that Thomas Fleming, writing for the London Daily Mail, characterized as "six degrees of subjectivity": At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be…
 
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    Phil Cooke

  • Where Did You Find Your Last Great Idea?

    philcooke
    15 May 2012 | 10:10 pm
    There’s something about the shower that makes ideas explode in my head. Once that water hits my face, for whatever reason, the ideas start popping. Driving is similar, as well as sitting in church, on a plane, or in a waiting room. Whenever I can’t move, my brain kicks in. Why does it matter? It [...]

  • What I Love and Hate About Financial Donors

    philcooke
    15 May 2012 | 1:27 am
    Kathleen and I were teaching recently at a media conference in Madrid, Spain. During the trip we visited the legendary Prado Museum in downtown Madrid. Walking through the galleries we stumbled upon a remarkable painting from 1640 called “The Crucified Christ with a Donor,” by Francisco de Zurbarán. It was such a glaring and humorous [...]

  • What I Learned About Productivity From Moving from New York to Los Angeles

    philcooke
    13 May 2012 | 6:02 pm
    I’m writing this after an exhausting day packing a rental van for moving. Our daughter and son-in-law Kelsey and Chris have been living in New York City for the last 5 years performing regularly in musical theater. A few months ago they came back to LA for television’s “pilot season” and so many opportunities happened, [...]

  • Do You Have a Social Media “Friend” Who Annoys You? Dump Them.

    philcooke
    9 May 2012 | 8:13 pm
    When Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Goodreads, or other social media platforms became available, most of us jumped on them with great excitement. We “friended” everyone we could find. But now, months or years later, we all have “friends” that annoy the heck out of us. Maybe they’re obsessive about one thing, or they just have weird [...]

  • Stop Trying to Change the World

    philcooke
    8 May 2012 | 8:47 pm
    I’ve been guilty of this as much as anyone – encouraging people to “change the world.” It’s true that some people leave that kind of legacy, but for most of us, just changing OUR world is enough. I know too many people who are focused on the lofty goal of changing the world, but their [...]
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    Christ and Pop Culture

  • The Holy Huddle: Sports Figures, The Hunger Games, and Sociological Terminology

    Doug Hankins
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Each week in The Holy Huddle, Doug Hankins takes a look at the goings on of the sports world from a distinctly Christian perspective.  As with any job, being a professional sports athlete requires a separation between personal and professional perspectives. Failing to do so, results in the professional side suffering due to personal troubles. In the past month, the sports world has tuned in to a soap opera of professional/personal balance that centers on the statements of three actors. Metta World Peace, Forward, Los Angeles Lakers As if elbowing James Harden in the cranium was not enough,…

  • What Memes Mean: Ian and Larissa

    Kirk Bozeman
    16 May 2012 | 9:10 am
    Each Wednesday in What Memes Mean, Kirk Bozeman questions the significance, humor, and subtexts of viral videos, memes, and other Internet fads. Ian and Larissa were very much in love, and from all outward signs their relationship was moving toward marriage. But in 2006, Ian received a traumatic brain injury in a terrible car accident, leaving him in ICU. He eventually made it to rehab and was able to return home, though the effects of the injury were severe and left him in need of constant care. In a moving string of events that followed, Larissa and Ian decided they should get married…

  • Music at Mars Hill: Beach House and the Myth of Memory

    Luke Larsen
    16 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    Music at Mars Hill is a weekly column by Luke Larsen that seeks to find God amidst the newest trends in both mainstream music and independent music. Last week, I wrote about myths — specifically, the ones that Josh Tillman has created about life with his band Father John Misty. His are the desperate kind of myths that a person creates for himself once the meaningless pursuits of fame and rock ‘n’ roll fade. But there are plenty of other myths bands explore — for example, take the new record Bloom from dream pop band Beach House. Unlike the grand facade of money and…

  • The Minority Report: Advice for Graduates

    Drew Dixon
    15 May 2012 | 11:34 am
    Every Tuesday in The Minority Report, Drew Dixon takes a look at trends in youth culture and offers some biblical wisdom for navigating them.   Graduation is upon us. A time of reflecting on the past and dreaming of the future. It is also a time to give people lots of unsolicited advice because most of us have been there before and so we think we know a thing or two about how to conduct oneself in the post-high school world. So, graduating senior, whether you like it or not, get ready for a slew of unsolicited advice from friends, family members, people you vaguely know, and people you…

  • God and Country Music: “I Like Johnny Cash, but I don’t like Country Music”

    Nick Rynerson
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Each week in God and Country Music, Nick Rynerson gives country music a chance and examines the world of Americana, folk, alt-country, and popular country music.  “I like Johnny Cash, but I don’t really like country music”. As a country music nerd, this is a “bridge the gap” response in many a conversation about music. Which, to be fair, who doesn’t love Johnny Cash? He walked the line! His sound is accessible, mystical and pure old time country music. His success has been cross-genre because of his association with Sun Records (instead of Nashville), his numerous collaborations…
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    Christian Newswire: All Releases

  • Thomas Nelson, Inc. Signs Groundbreaking New Fiction Project

    16 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    "The River" Added for Fall 2012 Release "Beauty, sacrifice, forgiveness, redemption, a son's love for his father...the themes in this novel moved me to tears. 'The River' will inspire your soul!" -- Rebecca St. James, Grammy Award-winning artist "Michael Neale has successfully parlayed his ability to inspire from the performing platform to the written page." -- John C. Maxwell, Founder of EQUIP, New York Times bestselling author Contact: Katie Bond, Publicity Manager, Thomas N Source: Thomas Nelson, Inc.

  • How the Free Market Protects the Underprivileged

    16 May 2012 | 1:35 pm
    Contact: Ryan Pando, 202-677-4484, rpando@eaglepub.com WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- In an election year when everything hinges on the economy, the Left has seized on America's economic troubles as an excuse to "blame the rich guy." President Obama and his allies paint a picture of capitalism and the free market as selfish, greedy, and cruel, asserting that the only way to ensure fairness and compassion is by allowing government to control and regulate business and redi Source: Regnery Publishing

  • Online Surge Inspiring Tens of Thousands in Support of Israel

    16 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Contact: Ahron Glazer, 347-796-4414 JERUSALEM, May 16, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference is inspiring tens of thousands to change the way the world views Israel. Since March, the film has played on PBS stations in major cities, has been screened in six out of seven continents, and is receiving incredible international attention. As a result of the overwhelming demand to watch and share the film, the producers have agreed to make Israel Insid Source: Imagination Productions

  • Introducing ProLifeWarrior.com. A 'Cyber-Pub' to Call the Faithful Out of the 'Cyber-Ghetto' -- On-line Community Launched; Unique in Rules, Mission, and Content

    16 May 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Contact: Juan Lepanto, 304-289-3700; www.ProLifeWarrior.com   WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Statement of Randall Terry introducing www.ProLifeWarrior.com: "Today our far-flung team of activists and leaders launches ProLifeWarrior.com. "Think of ProLifeWarrior as a 'cyber-pub' where the troops can gather to have a beer and a shot. That means you can talk about anything you want, and we will not edit, remove, or in anyway censor what you have written. If you Source: Society for Truth and Justice

  • Ex-Gays File Complaint Against School Superintendent for Sexual Orientation Discrimination

    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Montgomery County School Superintendent Joshua Starr Spewed Hateful Comments Against Former Homosexuals Contact: Regina Griggs, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX), 804-453-4737 ROCKVILLE, Md., May 16, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) has filed a sexual orientation discrimination complaint with the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education against its School Superintendent Joshua Starr. After PFOX distributed ex-gay flyers to high Source: Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays
 
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    Company of Prayer - Daily Prayers

  • Lord, may showing up be enough for today

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    A wise man once said, ‘the most important thing we do in life is show up.’ What he is telling us is that the purpose of life is to live, to live in a proper way. For a Christian, this means to live in a loving way, loving toward God, loving toward others – Reverend James O’Leary I Think I Am Happier Than I Think I Am

  • I am thankful for those who share my appreciation of freedom

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Freedom is glorious. But freedom also torments us because it requires us to create our own goals. – Barbara Sher I Could do Anything if Only I Knew What it Was

  • Lord, may you quench, in your own unique way, those who thirst

    admin
    13 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    New figures out of the Census Bureau show that the rate at which Americans are starting new businesses is at a record low. That’s bad news for job seekers as well as entrepreneurs, with entrepreneurs creating 40% of all new jobs in the 80s but only 30% recently. These figures highlight the fact that despite the high-profile rises of the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and the increasingly loud buzz surrounding flashy, fast-growing tech start-ups, meat-and-potatoes small businesses spread throughout the country aren’t being created nearly as often as they once were. – Inc. comStart-up…

  • In tribute to those in my life who have taken on the responsibilities of motherhood, I pray

    admin
    10 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    If I am Thy child, O God, it is because Thou gavest me such a mother. – St. Augustine

  • May the promise of Spring plant itself in our workplace, we pray

    admin
    9 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see believes in God. – Jane Kirkpatrick A Land of Sheltered Promise
 
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    Texas Faith Blog

  • TEXAS FAITH: Same-sex marriages and changing attitudes

    William McKenzie/ Editorial Columnist
    15 May 2012 | 3:56 pm
    How do religious institutions or organizations know when to change? That's the question I would like you to think about this week, in light of the announcement by President Obama that he now favors the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry. The president isn't the only person who has changed his views over time. Last week, the New York Times traced how attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed significantly since just the 1990s. In 1996, the Times reported, 27 percent of Americans favored same-sex marriages. Now, 47 percent favor them. Views on other issues, such as interracial…

  • TEXAS FAITH: How far should religious institutions go in defining the common good?

    William McKenzie/ Editorial Columnist
    8 May 2012 | 12:19 pm
    Here's a follow-up to our ongoing dialogue about defining the common good. This question comes out of the discussion we had at our first Texas Faith public forum last month. And the question is this: How far should churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious institutions go in helping define the common good? The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. certainly acted upon his religious convictions and led many other people of faith in protesting the nation's civil rights laws. He believed his faith was drawing him into the public arena, and his work changed America's course for the better.

  • TEXAS FAITH: Are Oprah, Deepak and the "God Within" school good or bad for religion?

    Wayne Slater/Reporter
    1 May 2012 | 2:14 pm
    In his new book, Bad Religion, author and columnist Ross Douthat argues that since the 1960s, institutional Christianity has sunk to a low place - chock-a-block with heresies. Among them, the "God-within" theology that he ascribes to modern-day practitioners like Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Elizabeth Gilbert. Douthat suggests that bad religion is any religious expression that doesn't go through formalized, orthodox channels. Or as writer Charlie Pierce boils down Douthat's thesis: "Christianity would have been infinitely better off is somebody had stopped the banjo Mass in its tracks."…

  • TEXAS FAITH: The Mormon Moment

    William McKenzie/ Editorial Columnist
    24 Apr 2012 | 2:26 pm
    In March, we talked some about Mitt Romney and his Mormonism. But since then Romney has become the presumptive GOP nominee. This has led to a number of pieces about the so-called "Mormon moment, including one I wrote in today's Morning News. Mormon leaders, understandably, may be wearying of that cliché. But it is true that church members have a teachable moment before them. Specifically, they have a chance to demystify elements of their faith, which polls show is still not very well understood by many of us. In my book, this is best done through in a friend-to-friend, neighbor-to-neighbor,…

  • TEXAS FAITH: Catholic bishops and civil disobedience

    William McKenzie/ Editorial Columnist
    17 Apr 2012 | 4:52 pm
    How far should people of faith go in resisting laws they consider unjust? I raise this because last week the nation's Catholic bishops, as the AP reported, "urged resistance to laws that church officials consider unjust." The story explained how the bishops urged "fellow Catholics and fellow Americans to be on guard, for religious liberty is under attack, both at home and abroad." The report also noted the clash between the Obama administration and Catholic leaders earlier this year over the requirement for most employers to cover the birth control costs of their employees. Since then, the…
 
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    Frederica Here and Now

  • The St. Photios Shrine

    9 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    Fredrica interviews Polly Hillier, the Director of the St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida, about the story behind the shrine.

  • St. Thomas

    25 Apr 2012 | 10:42 am
    Frederica defends the character of St. Thomas, whom we commemorate on the Sunday after Pascha.

  • The Cherub and the Thief

    11 Apr 2012 | 1:46 am
    On this encore presentation of "Frederica Here and Now," Frederica introduces us to a beautiful "precedent dispute"—an argument in song—between the cherub who guards paradise and the good thief.

  • Peter’s Denial

    4 Apr 2012 | 2:52 am
    Frederica reads the narrative of Peter's denial of Christ from St. Romanos the Melodist.

  • On Judas

    28 Mar 2012 | 3:12 am
    Frederica continues her reading from St. Romanos the Melodist as we approach Holy Week. Today the gripping and sobering narrative on the one who betrayed Jesus. See her earlier episode for information about the source.
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    World news: Religion | guardian.co.uk

  • How filthy lucre could subvert the Church of England

    Andrew Brown
    16 May 2012 | 12:17 pm
    Conservative evangelical churches threaten to withhold cash from pro-gay and liberal 'heretics'The Rev Paul Perkin seemed bewildered by the question: what was his take on the latest scheme for conservative evangelical churches to withhold money from the rest of the Church of England in order to keep it out of the hands of liberals, gay people or women priests?"I can't talk about that," he said. "You'll have to ask James Paice." Both men are vicars in south London. And both are directors of the company set up last month to implement this scheme, the Southwark Good Stewards Company. It is the…

  • The Rev Alex Leckey obituary

    16 May 2012 | 7:33 am
    My father, Alex Leckey – who has died of pneumonia, a complication of Parkinson's, aged 69 – left school without qualifications, but in the 1970s, answering a call to ministry, studied for O-levels and went to Queen's theological college in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where he was ordained in 1984 into the Methodist church.He was born in Southport, Merseyside, to Elsie Norman, an unmarried mother. He was always very proud of her and the courage she showed in resisting pressure to give him up for adoption. His father, Eric, died during the second world war. After leaving Christ Church school,…

  • I'd rather be a Catholic than be 'respectable' | Catherine Pepinster

    Catherine Pepinster
    16 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    Hilary Mantel says the Catholic church is no longer a place for 'respectable people'. But respectability is a problematic notion One of the heartaches of being a Roman Catholic in recent years has been the clerical abuse scandal. No pain that any of us suffers from discovering that some of our priests abused children – and even worse – that senior clergy covered up their crimes – can compare with the victims' plight, of course, but it has knocked for six many devout Catholics' faith. Some have left the church because of it; others are certainly more sceptical, or even more cynical about…

  • Lady Gaga denied permit for Indonesia concert after religious protests

    Sean Michaels
    16 May 2012 | 5:19 am
    Police refuse to license Jakarta gig, saying they are unable to guarantee singer's safety following protestsLady Gaga's show in Jakarta next month looks certain to be cancelled. The Indonesian authorities have refused to grant a permit for the concert on 3 June, citing security concerns following protests by conservative Muslim groups. "She's a vulgar singer," said Salim Alatas, from the Islam Defenders Front. "[She] wears only panties and a bra when she sings and she stated she is the envoy of the devil's child and that she will spread Satanic teaching."Local and national police were unable…

  • Michael Gove's Bibles: good for schools? | Poll

    16 May 2012 | 3:30 am
    This week, copies of the King James Bible were sent out to every state school in the country, courtesy of the education secretary Michael Gove. They were paid for by donations, not from the public purse. Tell us if you think the scheme is a good idea – or suggest books that could have been donated instead
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    IslamiCity Articles

  • Struggle over Iran: Tumultuous Israeli Politics Will Not Usher Peace

    16 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    The frenzy of statements and political realignments preceding Israel's elections are typical, and should not indicate major shifts in policies. Mistaking all of this to signal the return of the two state options is too hopeful, to say at least. 

  • Ibn Battuta's Journey to Mecca and 1001 Inventions

    16 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    Ibn Battuta made the journey in 1325 and the audience in the IMAX theatre in Los Angeles in 2011 also went on a journey and found that it was an awesome journey that touched their body, heart and soul.

  • Islam and Muslims: Same-sex marriages

    15 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    Islam calls for sexual discipline in society and recommends restrictions in sexual behavior to help people channel their energy in matters that are fundamental in preserving the interests of people.

  • The Moral Arc of The Universe

    14 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    NATO, on the other hand, has no faith whatsoever in the future, beyond that miniscule segment it thinks it can control by total and overwhelming force.

  • Mother's Day Proclamation

    13 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    Contrary to popular belief, Mother`s Day was not conceived by the card maker Hallmark ..
 
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    L.A. Times - Religious News

  • California presbytery defies church, backs minister in gay weddings

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Northern California Presbyterian governing body makes history by rejecting church's official denunciation of minister who performed same-sex marriages.SAN ANSELMO, Calif. — Days after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, the Presbyterian Church's Northern California governing body refused to rebuke a retired minister for marrying gays and lesbians when it was legal in California.

  • Homeless man's mother settles with Fullerton over his death

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Cathy Thomas will receive $1 million from the city. Her son Kelly died after a violent confrontation with six police officers. The agreement does not resolve a claim filed by the victim's father, Ron.The mother of a mentally ill homeless man who died after he was beaten by Fullerton police has reached a settlement with the city that will pay her $1 million, officials announced Tuesday evening.

  • North Hollywood congregants worry about fate of ashes buried at church

    9 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    The ashes of 17 people are buried in the rose garden at St. David's Anglican Church. But the church is in a legal battle with the Episcopal diocese over ownership of the property.The congregation was quiet — teary-eyed but smiling — as Bill Coburn, in a eulogy to his wife of 62 years, spoke of the passions of his beloved Marian.

  • Dynamic pragmatist becomes top Islamist contender in Egypt

    5 May 2012 | 10:53 pm
    Egyptian crowds roar for presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who has called for unity, protection of civil liberties and separation of religion and politics.ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — The stage along the sea was a politically crafted advertisement for Egypt's diversity: An unveiled woman chatted with a bearded Islamist and a retired soccer star shared the spotlight with a young hero from last year's revolution.

  • Hero to Arab Israelis returns

    30 Apr 2012 | 2:00 am
    Sheik Raed Saleh plans to organize Arab Israelis against what he sees as systematic discrimination. Israel considers him extremely dangerous.UMM AL FAHM, Israel — He's an Israeli-born Islamist whom the government considers so dangerous he's been banned from stepping foot in Jerusalem.
 
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  • Presbyterians Have Varied Views On Gay Marriage

    14 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Twenty years ago, few Americans approved of homosexuality or thought gay marriage should be legal. Now, nearly half of all Americans support same-sex marriage, though most Christians are still opposed to it.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Military Chaplains Raise Gay Marriage Concerns

    13 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee passed its version of a bill designed, in part, to protect military chaplains from coming under pressure to marry service members of the same sex. Host Rachel Martin speaks with retired Army chaplain Douglas E. Lee about the issue.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • For Evangelicals, Romney Is The Lesser Of Two Evils

    11 May 2012 | 11:59 am
    A recent poll found that evangelicals favor GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney over President Obama 67 to 22 percent, but a visit to a Dallas church shows they're doing so grudgingly. "This is a call to arms," says one parishioner. "Whether or not we like the choices, we must make a choice."» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • What Will Black Pastors Preach This Sunday?

    11 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Black pastors are reacting to the president's announcement that he supports same-sex marriage. Host Michel Martin takes a look at how the president's statement might play out in sermons this Sunday, and at the ballot box in November. She's joined by Bishop Harry Jackson, Dr. Michael Waters, and author and professor, Rev. Michael Eric Dyson.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

  • Same Bible, Different Verdict On Gay Marriage

    11 May 2012 | 1:52 am
    When President Obama announced he supports same-sex marriage, he cited his Christian faith. Many other people cited their religion to disagree. Why is there such variation? Part of it has to do with how you read the text.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us
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  • Politics and public opinion

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    In addressing the importance of public opinion, pollster Scott Rasmussen says whoever wins the presidential race in November will be the candidate who can effectively communicate the public's distrust in the government.

  • Colson remembered

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    A memorial service has honored the life of Prison Fellowship founder Chuck Colson. The service was held today at Washington National Cathedral.

  • Romney 'conflicted' about issues re: homosexuality

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Traditional values groups are disturbed that presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he's "fine" with homosexual couples adopting children.

  • What Obama refuses, China will gladly take

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    As expected, China appears ready to take advantage of President Barack Obama's refusal to allow a new natural gas pipeline to be built from Canada to markets in the U.S.

  • Focus of primary races shifts to top state races

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat -- though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it: popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey.
 
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  • Hello Everybody!

    callmedon
    15 May 2012 | 8:12 am
    I’m Don Neighbors. Timothy has invited me to be an author and editor, and I’ve accepted. Filed under: Apologetic Article

  • Redefining terms: Anti-Mormon

    Timothy Berman
    6 May 2012 | 6:06 pm
    It is always amazing how our critics love to define terms based on their own prejudicial and bigoted mindset. Yes, bigoted mindset because that is exactly what this particular definition is. A pejorative false statement as to the meaning behind … Continue reading →

  • The worst Anti-Mormon comment ever!

    Timothy Berman
    12 Mar 2012 | 3:46 am
    The following is from a scamming so-called Christian Ministry. The person only calls themselves “Admin 3″ and truly show the depravity of the cult like behavior of the Anti-Mormon Camp. Yes, this, in its entirety, is the “intellecual, academic, and … Continue reading →

  • Mormon Temples and Jews: The SWC Charade Continues | Jews and Mormons | Jewish Journal

    Timothy Berman
    29 Feb 2012 | 7:21 pm
    In a recent blog article over at the Jewish Journal, writer Mark Paredes reflects on the nature of the latest criticism launched against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints concerning the nature of Jewish ancestors having been baptized … Continue reading →

  • Paul Washer Transcript 03 - Ten Indictments

    Timothy Berman
    29 Feb 2012 | 5:12 pm
    Reblogged from John 1:1: Read more… 17,838 more words A third transcript where Paul Washer speaks out against the modern conception of American Christianity and how far off modern Christian thinking is from what the Bible actually teaches. In this … Continue reading →
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  • May 11, 2012: Listen Now

    Fred Yi
    11 May 2012 | 11:34 am
    Listen to this episode now: Download this episode as an MP3. Files can be saved to your computer or opened online with your favorite MP3 player. Listen to this week’s show. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/files/2009/10/ListenNow.jpg

  • May 4, 2012: Listen Now

    Fred Yi
    4 May 2012 | 10:20 am
    Listen to this episode now: Download this episode as an MP3. Files can be saved to your computer or opened online with your favorite MP3 player. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/files/2009/10/ListenNow.jpg Listen to this week’s show.

  • April 27, 2012: Listen Now

    Fred Yi
    27 Apr 2012 | 11:20 am
    Listen to this episode now: Download this episode as an MP3. Files can be saved to your computer or opened online with your favorite MP3 player. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/files/2009/10/ListenNow.jpg Listen to this week’s show.

  • April 20, 2012: Listen Now

    Fred Yi
    20 Apr 2012 | 1:45 pm
    Listen to this episode now: Download this episode as an MP3. Files can be saved to your computer or opened online with your favorite MP3 player. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/files/2009/10/ListenNow.jpg Listen to this week’s show.

  • April 13, 2012: Listen Now

    Fred Yi
    13 Apr 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Listen to this episode now: Download this episode as an MP3. Files can be saved to your computer or opened online with your favorite MP3 player. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/files/2009/10/ListenNow.jpg Listen to this week’s show.
 
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  • Religion News Briefing: Widow of first televangelist dies

    Religion News Blog
    16 May 2012 | 7:03 am
    In today's issue: The widow of Rex Humbard, the world's first televangelist, dies. An Agape Ministries cult member gets his ammunition back. A court orders gated communities in Puerto Rico to provide access to Jehovah's Witnesses. Plus a short, but though-provoking documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church.

  • Faith-healing parents acquitted of murder charge

    Religion News Blog
    15 May 2012 | 9:19 am
    Gregory and Garnet JaLea Swezey have been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. They had been accused of relying on faith healing instead of getting their son proper medical attention

  • Court affirms rejection of insanity defense in “exorcism” murder

    Religion News Blog
    15 May 2012 | 5:55 am
    The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's rejection of an insanity defense in the case of a woman who suffocated her 3-year-old son by forcing him to drink oil and vinegar because he was possessed by a demon. In June 2011 Latisha Lawson was sentenced to 62 years in prison.

  • Church sues ex-members for defamation over blog criticizing church’s practices

    Religion News Blog
    14 May 2012 | 9:55 am
    Pastor Charles O'Neal of Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon is trying to silence critics by filing lawsuits against them -- even though the Bible teaches that Christians should not file lawsuits against other Christians. The family being sued says it was shunned after leaving the church a few years ago.

  • ‘Holy Ghost’ cult leader sentenced to six years to life in rape of daughter

    Religion News Blog
    12 May 2012 | 7:11 am
    A religious cult leader has been sentenced to six years to life for raping his daughter and allowing his friend to rape her as well. Terrill Dalton, who called himself the 'Holy Ghost,' promised the girl "great blessings" if she had sex with him.
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  • When Does Choice Become Too Much? - Blog: Flunking Sainthood

    Jana Riess
    16 May 2012 | 9:29 am
    How do we live in a culture where we have seemingly unlimited consumer options and the menu at the Cheesecake Factory is like a book? That's a question that plagued me during the month of May when I was researching Flunking Sainthood. I gave up shopping that month, and did a fair amount of research into the psychology of consumerism. One of the most interesting books I discovered was The Art of Choosing. You can watch Sheena Iyengar's 25-minute TED talk about this here, or read a great summary of her research in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The basic thesis is that Americans…

  • Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Baptist baseball, Benedict and Benetton, Tim Tebow’s orphanage - Articles

    Kevin Eckstrom
    16 May 2012 | 7:49 am
    The Vatican announced on Tuesday (May 15) it had settled a lawsuit against Italian clothing group Benetton for using an image of Pope Benedict XVI in one of its advertisement campaigns. The ad featured Pope Benedict XVI kissing Egyptian cleric Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed El-Tayeb. RNS photo courtesy Benetton A group of Baptist churches in Missouri has pulled out of a softball league because one of the teams hired a gay pastor. ""We call ourselves a Christian softball league," the Rev. Ben Kingston said. "And if we call ourselves that, we want to be that." Franciscan University, an outpost of…

  • Biblical Sex - Blog: Spiritual Politics

    Mark Silk
    16 May 2012 | 7:04 am
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lovis_Corinth_Das_hohe_Lied_Ill.jpg Reluctant as I am to disagree with my friend Michael Sean Winters over at NCR, I think he goes a bit overboard in criticizing Garry Will's column on marriage as "the worst column (so far) on gay marriage." Really? The burden of Wills' historical sketch is that the establishment of marriage as a sacrament is a late development--put in place in the high middle ages to sacralize what had hitherto been understood to be a purely natural relationship going back (Scripturally) to Adam and Eve. Whether that makes…

  • Julie Anne Smith of Beaverton, Ore.

    Tracy Gordon
    15 May 2012 | 3:31 pm
    "All we did was ask questions. We just raised concerns. There's no sin in that." Julie Anne Smith, who is facing a $500,000 defamation suit from her former church, Beaverton Grace Bible Church, after she and other former members used a blog to question the church and its pastor. She was quoted by Christianity Today and KATU News.

  • RNS-SENDAK-JEWS d - Multimedia: Photos

    Sally Morrow
    15 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    The Chertoff Mural. RNS photo © 1961 by Maurice Sendak, all rights reserved. Courtesy, Rosenbach Museum & Library The Chertoff Mural.
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    Irtiqa

  • God and Hockey

    13 May 2012 | 3:35 am
    by Salman HameedI'm in transit to Istanbul, so this is just a quick nod to Shalom Auslander's article in yesterday's NYT. I loved his book (and the title) Foreskin's Lament. It is now being turned into a film and I'm looking forward to it.Here is Auslander talking about the game 7 of Rangers and Capitols and trying his best strategy to influence God over the results (by the way, now we know that the Rangers won). I love the beginning of the article:Religion, someone once said, is what goes through your mind as your plane taxis down the runway. It isn’t. What goes through your mind as your…

  • Manto at 100! Still relevant and riveting

    11 May 2012 | 8:41 pm
    by Salman HameedSaadat Hasan Manto - considered as the finest Urdu short story writer would have turned 100 today (image on the right is a stamp issued on his 50th death anniversary). Unfortunately, he lived for only 42 years and died in Lahore in 1955. But in his short life, he wrote over 20 collections of short stories and redefined the genre in Urdu. His writings challenged the norms of the society - be it on the issues of gender or class exploitation, or in exposing the hypocrisy of the intellectuals. Some of his most famous short stories deal with the partition of Pakistan and India in…

  • In Istanbul next week...

    10 May 2012 | 10:39 pm
    by Salman HameedIt is always a pleasure to be in Istanbul. My last visit was in late 2010 (see posts about food and friends,  on headscarf controversies and smoking, and on the stunning views of the Bosphorus from the Bogazici University). I will be there as part of our ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF) study to interview physicians and medical students about biological evolution and the relationship between science and religion. My research collaborator, Berna Turam, will also be with me. She is a sociologist at Northeastern University and is originally from Turkey (check out…

  • Video: How do Muslims around the world view science and evolution?

    8 May 2012 | 7:05 pm
    by Salman HameedHere is the video of a talk I gave this past January at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California. The title is a bit misleading as it is hard to fully express the diversity of Muslim views on science and evolution. However, my goal here was to use the title to hit home the point on cultural and social plurality of the Muslim world. I actually enjoyed the format here - lecture for the first half an hour and then a conversation with host Angie Coiro. I think Angie was absolutely terrific and covered a lot of territory in her questions - ranging from evolution acceptance to Muslim…

  • Pakistan's art on wheels

    7 May 2012 | 10:54 pm
    by Salman HameedWhile growing up in Pakistan, it was hard to appreciate the elaborate artwork on each and every truck and bus that was on the road. It was ubiquitous. That was the norm. But, of course, now there is a new appreciation. And several books have now addressed the topic of Pakistan's art of wheels. The newest book is On the Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity, and Culture in Pakistan by Jamal Elias. He used to be at Amherst College but is now is a faculty member at UPenn. His book uses this truck art to find the story of contemporary Pakistan. He provides a nice background on…
 
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  • He’s Got Your Back

    Liz Cowen Furman
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Liz Cowen Furman - Last summer we decided that our house was in serious need of staining. I borrowed a power washer from a painter friend who said it would be better than sanding. So to prep the siding for a new coat of stain, I set out to “wash my house”. I closed all the windows tight so I no water would go in through the cracks. The machine was amazing. It removes paint at 15 feet; get closer at full blast and you will be erasing the siding. It took me a few minutes to get used to it; I blew out a few light bulbs on porch lights. But after doing the bottom half of our house from the…

  • Taking a Risk

    Cynthia Ruchti
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Cynthia Ruchti – I know to grab the box of tissues before I watch certain movies. I cried during a recent dinner-and-a-movie date with my husband and wiped my tears with my popcorn napkin. My peripheral vision caught Bill lifting his glasses to wipe his own eyes. Some passages of the Bible should come with a “grab the tissues” warning. When King David’s child died. When the paralytic took his first steps because his desperate-to-help friends clawed a hole in the roof and lowered him to Jesus. When Jesus called out to His Father in a loud voice, “Into your hands I commit my…

  • Play to Win

    Heather Arbuckle
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Heather Arbuckle – My youngest daughter, Sofie, is a fast and fearless little girl who loves sports. All sports. And like most young athletes, Sofie likes to win. Recently, she and I saw a t-shirt that made us giggle. It said—I play to have fun, but I win anyway. “That is totally me, Mom!” Sofie laughed. I smiled at my little athlete and agreed, “You do play to win, sweet girl.” She was still talking about the shirt as we drove home from our errands and it led us to an interesting conversation about Christ. As she was talking about how much fun it is when her…

  • Endurance

    Donna McCrary
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Donna McCrary - Endurance is the ability or power to bear prolonged exertion, pain or hardship; toleration of hardship; persistence over time. Endurance is the soldier’s sleepless nights listening to the bombs exploding.Endurance is the athlete’s relentless pursuit of perfection to master a skill. Endurance is the farmer who works tirelessly for the sweet taste of an apple or a fresh ear of corn. Endurance is Paul’s experiences in prison for sharing the gospel. Endurance is Joseph sitting in prison wrongfully accused of rape for three years. Endurance is Noah building a giant boat…

  • The Biggest Piece of Pie

    Cheri Cowell
    14 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Cheri Cowell - I am so grateful to my mother for teaching me the lesson of the biggest piece of pie. Whenever mom made a pie, cake, or any form of dessert, my sister and I were taught the biggest piece always went to daddy. At the time, I hated this practice in our home. She explained to my sister and me that we wouldn’t have dessert if it weren’t for daddy’s hard work. This was so much a part of our homelife that when I went to a friend’s house and the children received the biggest pieces of pie, I actually felt strange. Later, when I married, this lesson of…
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    Tricycle - Awake in the World

  • Fleet Maull Retreat Week 3 Begins Today!

    Eric Wetzel
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Fleet Maull Week 3 of Fleet Maull's online retreat, "Social Awakening: Realizing the Basic Goodness of Society," starts today! Throughout the month of May, Fleet will present a series of talks on how individuals can broaden their sense of spiritual path towards a more collective, societal level. This week's talk, "Social Virtuosity: Developing Confidence and Resilience Through the Discovery of Basic Goodness " is about learning how to settle into the fluidity that being open and trusting possesses. Through this fluidity, we will truly understand why society couldn't be anything other than…

  • Buddha Buzz: More Monks in Trouble

    Emma Varvaloucas
    11 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Splain.jpg Mainstream media has done it again. I'm sure you've heard already, but neuroscience and meditation are the new "It" couple. This week the NY Times joins the fray in an article that is essentially a roundup of the different benefits that meditation can have on the brain. In addition to citing a few studies at various universities around the country, they trot out 63-year-old Buddhist practitioner Katherine Splain, who claims that her long meditation practice helped her finish an 80-page master's thesis—when she was 60. read more

  • Tragedy strikes an American Buddhist Community

    Sam Mowe
    11 May 2012 | 11:39 am
    LCandIan.jpg On April 22nd, Ian Thorson, a 38-year-old Buddhist practitioner, died in a cave near Geshe Michael Roach’s Diamond Mountain University and Retreat Center in Arizona. Thorson's body was found attended by his wife, Christie McNally, Roach's former student and partner, known to the Diamond Mountain Community, and globally, as “Lama Christie.” While there hasn't yet been any major media coverage of Thorson's death and the circumstances surrounding it, the Buddhist blogosphere is commenting on it extensively. read more

  • Snow Lion Acquired By Shambhala Publications

    Emma Varvaloucas
    11 May 2012 | 10:22 am
    SNP-switch.jpg   As of yesterday, Snow Lion is now part of Shambhala Publications. Over the years, Snow Lion has been at the forefront of Tibetan Buddhist publishing, giving a home to books by modern authors in the Tibetan lineage along with translations and commentaries of ancient texts. Though their operations in Ithaca will be shut down, Snow Lion's editors are staying through the transition and its books have been incorporated into the Shambhala Publications website. Snow Lion president Jeff Cox and co-founder Sidney Piburn have left an announcement on the old Snow Lion site: Dear…

  • Fleet Maull Retreat Week 3 Starting Monday, May 14th

    Eric Wetzel
    10 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Fleet Maull Beginning Monday, May 14th,  Acharya Fleet Maull will begin his third of four talks on Social Awakening. The topic of his third talk, titled "Social Virtuosity: Developing Confidence and Resilience Through the Discovery of Basic Goodness" focuses on the fluidity of being present, and developing the ability to settle into this fluidity, responding to situations with trust. In responding with trust and tactful vulnerability to situations, we will be more aware of society's basic goodness. Fleet mentions that the best vision of human society isn't one that excludes problems and…
 
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  • Gurdwara near Miri Piri to house Operation Bluestar Memorial

    SSNews
    16 May 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Amritsar, Punjabi: Even as the countdown to the start of Operation Bluestar Memorial’s “kar sewa” on May 20 has begun, it has come to light that the memorial will be in the form of a gurdwara for which the left wing of the building located right next to Miri Piri at the Golden Temple Complex [...]

  • Sri Akal Takht supports complete marriage Act

    SSNews
    16 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    Amritsar, Punjab: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh today said the draft of ‘Sikh Marriage Act — 2012’, prepared by Khalsa College principal Daljeet Singh, would be discussed in a meeting of the Sikh clergy and later forwarded to the Union Government through the SGPC. The aim was to get a complete marriage Act for [...]

  • Gatka lads from Tarn Taran make it to Guinness Book

    SSNews
    11 May 2012 | 8:21 pm
    Amritsar, Punjab: At a time when Punjabi youth in the border belt are losing the prime of their age to rampant drug addiction, Tarn Taran-based Bir Khalsa Gatka Group has brought laurels to the state by making it to the Guinness Book of World Records. The group broke the maximum number of coconuts placed on [...]

  • Obama cites Punjab-born Sikh Dalip Singh Saund to laud Asian contribution

    SSNews
    11 May 2012 | 8:11 pm
    Washington DC, US: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday heaped praise on Punjab-born Dalip Singh Saund, the country’s first Indian-American member of the Congress. In his address at the annual gala of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, the US President described the late Saund as a “trailblazer”. “They were trailblazers like Dalip [...]

  • No divorce clause in Anand Marriage Bill sets off debate

    SSNews
    11 May 2012 | 8:06 pm
    Amritsar, Punjab: The Anand Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha. However, the absence of provision of divorce in the Bill has set off a debate in the Sikh community, with some sections supporting it and others against it. While one school of thought maintains there is no place for divorce [...]
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    Century Blog

  • Tuesday digest

    Steve Thorngate
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    New today from the Century: Will Willimon on being bishop, John Buchanan on baseball, more. read more

  • Apostolic fate

    Katherine Willis Pershey
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    I was drying dishes and absentmindedly singing the song that had been stuck in my head for days when my husband suddenly came barreling down the staircase and into the kitchen. Looking frantic, he asked me what had happened. We were both confused; he was convinced that I had cried out in pain, and he fully expected to walk in on a grisly cooking incident.We quickly realized the source of the miscommunication. The song I’d been singing was Lady Gaga’s “Judas,” and I sounded like a lady in distress as I belted out, “Judas, Juda-a-a.” read more

  • Some marriage equality links

    Steve Thorngate
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Last week I joined the chorus of those who wished for a bit more from the president's endorsement of same-sex marriage. Among those who were more unambiguously enthusiastic, I found E. J. Graff's later post pretty compelling. read more

  • Monday digest

    Steve Thorngate
    14 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    New today from the Century: Evangelicals and birth control, post-Mother's Day murmurings, more. read more

  • Post-Mother's Day murmurings

    Carol Howard Merritt
    14 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Sue came into the church office in order to help with some paperwork and plans for Sunday morning worship. “What are we doing for Mother’s Day?” she asked.I paused. I had always benignly neglected Mother’s Day at our church. I thought of it as a Hallmark holiday, and not something that should fit on a liturgical calendar. I was taught in seminary that we should never mention it. Plus, there were personal reasons as well. read more
 
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    Religion News Headlines - Yahoo! News

  • Roman Catholic bishop convicted of child pornography stripped of clerical duties

    16 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A Roman Catholic bishop who was convicted of importing child pornography into Canada has been stripped of his clerical duties.

  • Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official

    16 May 2012 | 12:23 pm
    VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week, a top Vatican official told Reuters on Wednesday. The once influential religious order, still in crisis following revelations that its founder was a sexual abuser with two secret families, suffered another major blow on Tuesday when American Father Thomas Williams admitted to having fathered a child with a woman in Rome. ...

  • Presbyterian churches ignore SF minister's censure

    15 May 2012 | 11:12 pm
    Representatives of dozens of West Coast Presbyterian churches are defying their denomination's highest court by refusing to censure a retired minister who married same-sex couples in 2008.

  • Catholic college drops health plan over contraception mandate

    15 May 2012 | 4:21 pm
    DENVER (Reuters) - A small Catholic college in Ohio said Tuesday it was dropping health insurance coverage for students rather than comply with a federal mandate that the plan provide free birth control. The Franciscan University of Steubenville "will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life," according to a bulletin to students posted on the university's website. Not only will the university drop its own plan, but it will no longer require its undergraduates to carry insurance, the bulletin said. ...

  • Scandal-plagued Catholic order rocked by priest's affair

    15 May 2012 | 3:45 pm
    VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ Roman Catholic religious order suffered another major blow to its image on Tuesday when one of its most prominent members admitted to having fathered a child. Father Thomas Williams said in a statement he was "truly sorry to everyone who is hurt by this revelation". Williams, the American author of more than a dozen books on spirituality and dean of moral theology at a papal university in Rome, often appeared on American television to explain Vatican affairs and Catholic teachings. ...
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    The Christian Pulse

  • He’s Got Your Back

    Liz Cowen Furman
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Liz Cowen Furman - Last summer we decided that our house was in serious need of staining. I borrowed a power washer from a painter friend who said it would be better than sanding. So to prep the siding for a new coat of stain, I set out to “wash my house”. I closed all the windows tight so I no water would go in through the cracks. The machine was amazing. It removes paint at 15 feet; get closer at full blast and you will be erasing the siding. It took me a few minutes to get used to it; I blew out a few light bulbs on porch lights. But after doing the bottom half of our house from the…

  • Taking a Risk

    Cynthia Ruchti
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Cynthia Ruchti – I know to grab the box of tissues before I watch certain movies. I cried during a recent dinner-and-a-movie date with my husband and wiped my tears with my popcorn napkin. My peripheral vision caught Bill lifting his glasses to wipe his own eyes. Some passages of the Bible should come with a “grab the tissues” warning. When King David’s child died. When the paralytic took his first steps because his desperate-to-help friends clawed a hole in the roof and lowered him to Jesus. When Jesus called out to His Father in a loud voice, “Into your hands I commit my…

  • Play to Win

    Heather Arbuckle
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Heather Arbuckle – My youngest daughter, Sofie, is a fast and fearless little girl who loves sports. All sports. And like most young athletes, Sofie likes to win. Recently, she and I saw a t-shirt that made us giggle. It said—I play to have fun, but I win anyway. “That is totally me, Mom!” Sofie laughed. I smiled at my little athlete and agreed, “You do play to win, sweet girl.” She was still talking about the shirt as we drove home from our errands and it led us to an interesting conversation about Christ. As she was talking about how much fun it is when her…

  • Endurance

    Donna McCrary
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Donna McCrary - Endurance is the ability or power to bear prolonged exertion, pain or hardship; toleration of hardship; persistence over time. Endurance is the soldier’s sleepless nights listening to the bombs exploding.Endurance is the athlete’s relentless pursuit of perfection to master a skill. Endurance is the farmer who works tirelessly for the sweet taste of an apple or a fresh ear of corn. Endurance is Paul’s experiences in prison for sharing the gospel. Endurance is Joseph sitting in prison wrongfully accused of rape for three years. Endurance is Noah building a giant boat…

  • The Biggest Piece of Pie

    Cheri Cowell
    14 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    By Cheri Cowell - I am so grateful to my mother for teaching me the lesson of the biggest piece of pie. Whenever mom made a pie, cake, or any form of dessert, my sister and I were taught the biggest piece always went to daddy. At the time, I hated this practice in our home. She explained to my sister and me that we wouldn’t have dessert if it weren’t for daddy’s hard work. This was so much a part of our homelife that when I went to a friend’s house and the children received the biggest pieces of pie, I actually felt strange. Later, when I married, this lesson of…
 
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    The Scriptorium

  • Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (1943-2012)

    fredsanders
    16 May 2012 | 4:09 am
    This past weekend (on May 13), the hispanic feminist liberation theologian Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz died. Is “hispanic feminist liberation theologian” too much of a mouthful? She thought so, too. Each of those adjectives is accurate as a description of her work, but all strung together like that, they sounded like a tangle of disparate threads.… [Continue Reading]

  • Imitating Jesus’ Dependence on the Father and the Spirit

    fredsanders
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Klaus Issler‘s new book Living into the Life of Jesus: The Formation of Christian Character (IVP, 2012) is a  unique product. It looks like a spiritual formation book, and it is. From its green cover with a picture of a lone figure walking down a path into a gauzy landscape, you can tell it’s going… [Continue Reading]

  • The Ascension: Christ Among Us, Christ Above Us

    Peter David Gross
    14 May 2012 | 7:54 pm
    My awesome little Baptist church follows the church calendar (Yes, that’s right.), and this Thursday is Ascension Day. After preaching at our midweek service last year, I became the church’s unofficial Ascension nut, and I’m getting ready to preach again. It’ll be our third sermon on the Ascension, each with a different approach, and between the… [Continue Reading]

  • How to Teach Salvation: Three Mysteries

    fredsanders
    14 May 2012 | 2:44 pm
    There are three great mysteries in Christian theology: the Trinity, the incarnation, and the atonement. These three mysteries are all mysteries of unity: The mystery of the Trinity is how the three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) are the one, only God. The mystery of the incarnation is how the divine nature is united to… [Continue Reading]

  • Metathon 2012 – Dante’s Inferno Dr. Geier: “It’s interesting that Satan’s uninteresting.”

    Peter David Gross
    11 May 2012 | 3:42 pm
    The Metathon ended Sunday night, complete with its traditional climactic cake. Lots of us stayed up an hour or two after eating to follow loose conversational threads from the last few days (“So what did you mean that knowledge is an image?”) or to play with our newly-minted inside jokes. It’s amazing the sort of work… [Continue Reading]
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    Iskcon Universe

  • Spirituality and the Global Economy

    admin
    16 May 2012 | 8:27 am
    By Krishna-lila Dasi (Krisztina Danka) for ISKCON News on 16 May 2012 Good filmmaking is about making people stop and look deeply into their own hearts -- to turn each of them into a better person.
 
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    Velveteen Rabbi

  • Morning prayers in the car

    rbarenblat@gmail.com (Velveteen Rabbi)
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    "How about a cd, mommy?" says Drew in the car. "How about the orange one! How about Shawn!" "The orange one" and "Shawn" mean the same thing: Morning I Will Seek You, by my friend and teacher Shawn Zevit. I like to listen to it in the mornings on the way to daycare and then to work, and apparently so does Drew. (The physical cd itself has an orange face, if that weren't clear.) I like beginning my day with prayer. Modah ani l'fanecha -- I am grateful before You, living and enduring God; You have restored my soul to me, great is Your faithfulness. (I've written about that prayer before.)…

  • "Complicating Israel" reading list

    rbarenblat@gmail.com (Velveteen Rabbi)
    15 May 2012 | 7:33 am
    If I were to assemble a reading list, or book discussion group curriculum, on the Middle East, what would I choose? That's the question which prompted this post. This is a list of 20 nonfiction titles: some by Israelis, some by Palestinians, some by outsiders; some more historical, some more personal. I think it's valuable (both spiritually and intellectually) to juxtapose disparate voices and to open ourselves to stories we might not otherwise hear. I welcome thoughts / responses/ suggestions. I've pondered using this as the curriculum for an in-person discussion group at my shul -- or for…

  • A mother poem for Mother's Day

    rbarenblat@gmail.com (Velveteen Rabbi)
    13 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    To all who celebrate, I wish a happy Mother's Day! Here's to mothers of all kinds: our mothers and grandmothers, the "other mothers" (caregivers and teachers and nannies) in our lives, to we ourselves who are mothers -- may we all feel rightly celebrated today. And to all who struggle with infertility and miscarriage, for whom today may bring more sorrow than celebration, may that sadness be soothed and healed. As mother's day has approached, I've been thinking again about how best to get Waiting to Unfold, my collection of mother poems, out there into the world. I remain hopeful that someday…

  • Awesome community media piece: Mind the Gap in Crown Heights

    rbarenblat@gmail.com (Velveteen Rabbi)
    11 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    Via this post at Jewschool I found a pretty wonderful piece of community media called Mind the Gap in Crown Heights: (If you can't see the embedded video, above, you can go directly to it at YouTube.) This is a radio and film piece made as part of Radio Rookies, "a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world." Here's how the video is described on YouTube: Four teenage girls, all new immigrants from the Caribbean, arrive at a high school in the heart of what was the epicenter of…

  • A poem about Orpah

    rbarenblat@gmail.com (Velveteen Rabbi)
    10 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    THE ONE WHO TURNED BACK Maybe you envisioned your husband's grave choked with weeds maybe you knew the Israelites would scorn your foreign features the sages say God gave you four sons because you wept as you left her the pundits whisper once Naomi was gone you spread your legs for anyone did the men of Moab grind your body like bruised corn did you birth Goliath and rend your garments when you lost him too did you live for centuries destined for the sword of one of David's men -- or did you bathe your aging parents and die a quiet spinster comforted by the scent of the wild rosemary outside…
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    Jade Mountains - Practice Within the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives

  • A Lightness To The Step

    Rev. Mugo
    15 May 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Bluebells in hedgerow. Nature does it so well! Not for the first time I inwardly nodded with approval. Over the past few years, slowly but surely, a once crumbling building is being restored to a serviceable state. There is clearly a quality job being done. As I walked on it occurred to me that I might have been disapproving of this project. Interestingly I realized that it didn't matter in the slightest what I thought! Thoughts are not the thing. How easy it can be to get caught up in ones own thoughts. To approve of approving or disapprove of disapproving! Uh! What a mine field, thankfully…

  • Another Grand Day Out

    Rev. Mugo
    13 May 2012 | 3:18 pm
    The huge black cast iron tea kettle was swinging wildly on its hook above the Muker Tea Shop. The wind was that strong. Even so a small group, including a dog, walked in Upper Swaledale today. From Keld to Muker and back with a stop of lunch. Brrr was it cold! We were a bit early in the year to see the wildflower meadows however the photographs on this site show the area really well. It is well worth a tour of the site, the photographs are really good. The drive to Keld reminded me once again how very close I am to this wild country of Yorkshire. Stunning at any time of the year. But best of…

  • Recovered

    Rev. Mugo
    12 May 2012 | 4:24 am
    In a car park, Calw Black Forest. Calw is the birthplace of Hermann Hesse. Since my last entry I have traveled! (Southern Germany to North West England, with an over night stops in The Netherlands and Northumberland). AND A dead hard drive brought back to life. (Who said the professionals know everything!) A couple of days rest and recovery. Several loads of laundry. Several hours trying to fathom knitting pattern instructions....(photo of garment to follow.) Yes, I am recovered enough to sit and type this. I am inspired by the comment asking if my return to England meant I stopped writing…

  • Where It Is

    Rev. Mugo
    7 May 2012 | 3:11 am
    The Three Treasures bell. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Anonymous Searching here and there we may trip and falling over a stone find it beautiful! Mugo - May 2012 Here ends this series of poems and sayings. Quite soon I will climb aboard transport and eventually find myself in the North West of England again. Until then thank you to those who have read here, have left comments and who continue to read here. All very much appreciated. May you bump into beauty, or what ever you want to call that which causes the heart to burst…

  • Refusing To Bite - Second Part Of Ryokan's poem

    Rev. Mugo
    6 May 2012 | 10:19 am
    Walking meditation path. Here is the second part of the poem by Master Ryokan. He was pondering the 'first cause' and reports that the workings of my mind go dead. Now he asks others what their response is.... I took these words to the old woman in the house to the east; the old woman in the house to the east was not pleased. I questioned the old man in the house to the west; the old man in the house to the west puckered his brow and walked away. I tried writing the question on a biscuit, fed it to the dogs, but even the dogs refused to bite.... Master Ryokan
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    بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Sufi News and Sufism World Report

  • The Dream Still Exists

    Marina Montanaro
    15 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    By Terry Gross/WHYY, *Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America* - Vermont Public Radio - USA; Thursday, May 10, 2012Creating a New Vision of Islam in AmericaImam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a leading moderate Muslim leader in the U.S., was once the lead cleric associated with the proposed Islamic community center some critics called the "ground zero mosque."In late 2010, a debate over the location of the community center, now called the Cordoba House, became a contentious issue during the midterm elections.During the debate, Rauf was called a "radical Muslim" and a "militant Islamist" by critics of…

  • Burying the Hatchets

    Marina Montanaro
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    By Ruslan Kurbanov, *Dagestani Muslims: From Confrontation to Peace* - OnIslam.net - Egypt - Sunday, May 6, 2012Dagestani Muslims: From Confrontation to PeaceDagestan is the most unique region of Russia located between Caspian sea and Chechnya. Beginning from the moment of its being part of Russia 200 years ago till now, it has continued to impact very seriously on social and political processes of all Caucasian region. During all this period Dagestani Muslims have been trendsetters for their neighbors in the matters of Islam, Shariah, war and peace.Religious and Ethnic StructureFirst of all,…

  • Great Female Scholars

    Marina Montanaro
    13 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    By Evelyn Osagie, *Northern women scholars in pre-colonial Nigeria*- The Nation - Matori, Mushin, Lagos State, Nigeria; Wednesday, May 9, 2012Northern women scholars in pre-colonial NigeriaMany Nigerian women contributed to the socio-political and economic development of the country. Sadly, oftentimes, while celebrating achievers, these women are scarcely mentioned, women rights advocates have said.They argue that historians and scholars must start exposing women contributions in our historical milieu.One good way to go about it, according to them, is to bring to the fore the contributions of…

  • Music Beneath the Words

    Marina Montanaro
    12 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    By H. Talat Halman, *Book Review: “Celebrating Divine Presence: Journeys into God” (Laurent Weichberger, ed.)* - The American Muslim - Bridgeton, MO, USA - Sunday, May 6, 2012“Celebrating Divine Presence: Journeys into God”: A Happy Blending of the Head and the Heart“Celebrating Divine Presence” is a book that aims to—and in so many ways succeeds at—revitalizing our experience of all religions by bringing them together as “beads on one string,” to quote the words of the twentieth-century spiritual master Meher Baba. In these chapters, the authors, all practitioners, and…

  • Junooni Time

    Marina Montanaro
    11 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    By Staff Correspondent, *Salman Ahmad performs at Ajmer Sharif* - The Express Tribune - Karachi, Pakistan; Saturday, May 5, 2012Salman Ahmad performs at Ajmer SharifKarachi: Sufi rock star Salman Ahmad may have performed in various places around the world but his most recent stop was a unique one. The Junoon member got the rare chance of performing at the Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishty in Ajmer Sharif, India.“It was an honour to pay tribute to Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishty in Ajmer Sharif,” said Ahmad via e-mail. “This is the 800th year of Khawaja Gharib Nawaz’s…
 
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    Technology of the Heart

  • On Love, Devotion and Mercy

    16 May 2012 | 11:02 am
    Devotion is the highest form of love. It is possible you may love one person, and love becomes so deep that slowly slowly the very quality of love changes into devotion. Then that person becomes only a window for you to take a jump into existence. ~ O.S.H.O via Osho quotes 1. The mystic Osho unveils an open secret of our existence. This is also the unveiled mystery of why every spiritual movement is centered around a single person. It has to be so because if you look closely you will see that towards that single person unconditional love and devotion came to manifest by those…

  • Quranic Illuminations on Spiritual Heart and it's Realities

    12 May 2012 | 1:52 pm
    IDENTITY OF THE HEART Qalb, Joumana Medlej (credit) About the Heart, Allah, Glorious is Hu, says in the Quran: For surely eyes do not become blind, but it is the heart in the breasts that grow blind. - Surah Hajj, 22:46 Similarly the Prophet, may our love for him be made perfect, has said: Indeed Allah does not look at your appearance or form, but rather Allah looks at your Heart. And while saying this with his blessed finger he pointed to his chest to indicate this is where the Heart is. (from Muslim collection of hadith) Thus it is clear that the inner Heart or the Spiritual Heart…

  • Heart is the strongest generator of both electrical and magnetic fields

    10 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    1. HEART IS THE STRONGEST ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR IN THE BODY The human Heart is now documented as the strongest generator of both electrical and magnetic fields in the body. Important, because we've always been taught that the brain is where all of the action is. While the brain does have an electrical & a magnetic field, they are both relatively weak compared to the Heart. The Heart is about 100,000 times stronger electrically & up to 5,000 times stronger magnetically than the brain. Important, because the physical world - as we know it - is made of those 2 fields:…

  • Mano Chalo Nija Niketane | O heart lets return to the real abode

    7 May 2012 | 11:14 pm
    1. The Famous Meeting It was the year 1881. When Sri Ramakrishna, the God intoxicated mystic of Bengal requested a young visitor by the name Naren to sing a song for him, something extra ordinary happened there. The young visitor was a sincere seeker who happen to visit him for the first time that day and who was looking for a true Master. After slight hesitation when Naren started to sing, the words of the song had such profound effect on the heart of the mystic that it immediately drowned Sri Ramakrishna in a state of absorption. Such state of absorption in Divine…

  • Supermoon of 2012

    7 May 2012 | 12:03 am
    At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door tonight, only the window. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi 1. Please don't miss gazing at the full moon, which will be a supermoon these nights (Saturday and Sunday, 5th and 6th of May 2012). This is also coinciding with the auspicious Buddha Purnima as well, the full moon night which is marked by both the appearing (birth), enlightenment and passing (death) of Gautama Buddha. It also happens to be the Celtic celebration of…
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    La Shawn Barber's Corner

  • WORLD: Fauxcahontas*

    La Shawn
    15 May 2012 | 6:45 am
    Did Harvard University hire the blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts, because she claimed to be an American Indian? That’s what members of the Massachusetts Republican Party want to know. They’ve called for Harvard to investigate whether Warren’s supposed racial minority status played a role in her recruitment. Warren, who is challenging Sen. Scott Brown for his seat, listed herself as Native American in legal directories but said she was hired on merit. Columnist Michael Barone said Warren identified as an Indian at previous schools where she…

  • WORLD: North Carolina’s Amendment One – UPDATED

    La Shawn
    7 May 2012 | 7:16 am
    Update (5/8): North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. North Carolina already has a law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Why do legislators want another? Read on, and if you’re a registered voter in North Carolina, please vote. [On Tuesday, May 8], North Carolina voters will decide for or against the following language: “Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” If the voters…

  • That Time Again?

    La Shawn
    4 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In case you haven’t figured it out, today’s my birthday. Time…it flies, no?

  • WORLD: Christians and Illegal ‘Immigration’

    La Shawn
    1 May 2012 | 7:19 am
    How should Christians respond in the so-called illegal immigration debate? Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, opposes laws like SB 1070. In fact, he favors immigration reform, a euphemism for amnesty. “Hospitality is not at the margins of Scripture,” he said earlier this year at the G92 South Immigration Conference at Samford University. “Jesus wasn’t kidding around when He said, ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’” Scripture misapplication notwithstanding, Christians certainly are called to be compassionate, but are we called…

  • WORLD: Shacking Up

    La Shawn
    23 Apr 2012 | 7:46 am
    The web is buzzing about an opinion article published by The New York Times last Saturday. “The Downside to Cohabitating Before Marriage” has been one of the most emailed and among the most viewed articles on the Times’ website this week, although it contains nothing new or groundbreaking. It merely confirms what most know or suspect: Living together before marriage increases the risk of divorce. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist and author, writes about a client she calls “Jennifer.” The client and her live-in boyfriend eventually married, but when Jennifer was in therapy with…
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    Evangelical Outpost

  • Lecrae, Church Clothes, and Mainstream Attention

    J.F. Arnold
    10 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    [Update: My Audio Review for The Christian Manifesto] Over at XXL Mag, a hip-hop oriented magazine, Lecrae was interviewed about his mixtape Church Clothes, which is set to release today, May 10th. I’ve watched a couple of debates on the topic already. People tend to land in one of two places: either Lecrae is doing God’s work by making music that will reach more people, or he has lost touch with the Gospel and forsaken the name of Christ. On one side of the argument, folks say that Lecrae’s recent decisions–performing in the BET Cypher, releasing a mixtape with DJ Don…

  • Reclaiming ‘Gay’ and Rainbows

    J.F. Arnold
    7 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Late last week, Pastor Ken Hutcherson spoke out and made a rather surprising claim: he wrote that he is the “gayest man [he] know[s].” This, of course, brought on a bit of controversy. His closest friends, including his wife and kids, all knew this about him, apparently. What he meant, however, was not what I expected. What I had expected and, frankly, hoped for was this: I was hoping this would be an example of someone who recognized their homosexual struggles and tendencies, but had fought temptation and overcome it. This would show that the Church has space for those who…

  • Contraception, Encouragement, and Affirmation

    J.F. Arnold
    2 May 2012 | 4:05 pm
    Last week, Matthew Lee Anderson published an article through Christianity Today arguing that Churches Shouldn’t Push Contraceptives to Their Singles. I thought the post was thoughtful and interesting, and shared it with a few friends. It helped start a couple of helpful conversations, so there was merit at least in that outcome, if not the article itself. Late last week, Jenell Paris responded to Matt’s article, suggesting that a church that teaches both chastity and contraception was a church making a sacred compromise. She was part of the Q panel that started this whole…

  • Numerology, Critical Thinking, and Hope

    J.F. Arnold
    30 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am
    It has been almost a year since the rapture should have occurred, at least according to Harold Camping. Lots of people were convinced by his arguments, and there was at least one couple that sold their property and took a vacation with their life savings, since the rapture was coming and they wouldn’t need their earthly possessions after that. This was convincing, to some, I suspect because their hope blinded them to the realities of the arguments. That isn’t to say that hope is always blinding, of course, simply that there are times when our hopes can lead us to believe things…

  • Windows Phone 7: Why I Left My iPhone

    J.F. Arnold
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    I seem to still be finding my niche for blogging here at Evangelical Outpost. I’ve become the local guru on hip-hop, which doesn’t surprise me too much. Looking through my history, the only other topic I’ve written enough about to warrant a conclusion about my interests would be technology. In a post I wrote just before the announcement of the iPhone 4S, I mentioned that I was a fan of the iPhone. The statement remains true, though I am no longer a user of an iPhone. In fact, this last Christmas I decided that it was about time I looked into Microsoft’s mobile ventures…
 
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    Evolving Beings

  • New Earth Living: Honor Your Journey

    Evita Ochel
    14 May 2012 | 3:18 pm
    EBTV presents New Earth Living. In this episode, host Evita Ochel talks about honoring our personal journeys, its importance and benefits for our life. We each have different journeys calling to us at various points throughout our...

  • The Illusions of Reality: Life, Death and Time

    Evita Ochel
    11 May 2012 | 12:04 pm
    EBTV presents host Evita Ochel with special guest Anthony Peake - researcher and author of several books, including The Out-of-Body Experience and the newly published The Labyrinth of Time: Revealing the True Nature of Reality. In the...

  • Having Heart to Take Action: Approaching Veganism with Kids

    Evita Ochel
    5 May 2012 | 5:41 pm
    EBTV presents host Evita Ochel with special guest Ruby Roth – writer, speaker and author of the newly released children’s book Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action. Ruby shares her personal journey as to why...

  • Film Review: Thrive – What On Earth Will It Take?

    Evita Ochel
    1 May 2012 | 11:30 pm
    The world is waking up. This is one of the tag lines used in the newly released documentary Thrive and there is no doubt about that. Whether you see it as the ending of a cycle, a shift of...

  • This is Your Year: Re-Examine Your Work and Business Approach

    Evita Ochel
    1 May 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Happy May everyone! This is your year to remember, to awaken, to transform and to take action in your life. It is with great pleasure therefore, that I share with you this year’s fifth monthly issue of EvolvingBeings.com. In...
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    Episcopal Cafe

  • Bikes blessed; riders relieved; hospital helps

    Torey Lightcap
    16 May 2012 | 10:29 am
    The L.A. Times reports on Bike Week L.A.: ... dozens of cyclists rode to Good Samaritan Hospital for the ninth annual Blessing of the Bicycles. A rabbi talked about living green. A nun spoke of guardian angels. And the Rev. Jerry Anderson, an Episcopal priest and hospital chaplain, sprinkled holy water on bikers and their bikes. Jody Nathan, a Sun Valley high school biology teacher, came from Pasadena, with a paisley-patterned yellow backpack on her back. In it was Zooma, her Chihuahua, who wore Doggles-brand silver goggles decorated with skull and crossbone stickers. Nathan, 48, who…

  • Researchers make hay of new numbers on acceptance of gays

    Torey Lightcap
    16 May 2012 | 7:06 am
    LifeWay Christian Resources - a product of the Southern Baptist Convention - recently polled 2,144 Americans using an online instrument. They were asked, "Do you believe homosexuality is a sin?" 44% said yes. 43% said no. 13% weren't sure. It's always important to remember who's asking and why. As an unabashed arm of the Southern Baptists, LifeWay may be trying to ring an alarmist bell, claiming a tipping point is near, and that all it will take to start full-blown culture wars or Armageddon or whatever is just one more state making gay marriage legal. 'Course, if you go with information…

  • Why?

    Ann Fontaine
    16 May 2012 | 3:08 am
    Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ‘What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?’ They said to him, ‘The son of David.’ He said to them, ‘How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet’ ”? If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?’ No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. -- Matthew 22:41-46 (NRSV) What is worse than a question? Perhaps it is…

  • CWOB resolutions at General Convention study guide

    Nicholas Knisely
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Sharing communion without first baptizing a person is a small but common practice in the Episcopal Church right now. There's been a great deal of discussion on the question here on the Episcopal Café over the past few years. (You can read an essay from 2007 here, and a series of three essays posted last year beginning with Part 1, and then Part 2 and Part 3.) These discussions generate more comments than any other subject on the Café. And now some of the ideas being discussed are going to be voted on at General Convention this summer. The Diocese of Eastern Oregon has proposed a resolution…

  • Church of Ireland reiterates traditionalist stance

    Nicholas Knisely
    15 May 2012 | 4:11 pm
    The Church of Ireland met in General Synod last week. Last year, Dean Tom Gordon entered into a civil partnership with his long time partner and in so doing created a crisis in the Irish Anglican church. After attempts by the bishops to reiterate the traditional opposition to marriage equality in the church as part of a temporizing compromise, a push by the progressive voices to oppose that plan has highlighted the disagreement within the church. "In a public display of the disagreements within the Church of Ireland’s leadership on the issue of homosexuality, Bishops Michael Burrows and…
 
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    Speaking the Truth in Love

  • Bishops - Part 31: The Tumultuous 9th Century - Part 2

    6 May 2012 | 1:55 pm
    In part 2 of Fr. Tom's reflections on the tumultuous 9th century, he talks about the missionary work of Sts. Cyril and Methodius and the controversies over language and control of the slavic nations.

  • Radical Monogamy

    2 May 2012 | 10:48 am
    What do the Scriptures and the Fathers say about fidelity in marriage, sex outside of marriage, or same-sex marriage? Fr. Tom gives extensive teaching on this subject in today's episode.

  • Bishops - Part 30: The Tumultuous 9th Century - Part 1

    17 Apr 2012 | 12:29 pm
    Today, Fr. Tom brings us part 1 of 2 talks about the difficult 9th century in Church history. This is the backstory that often gets simplified but is important in understanding why we don't have unity today.

  • The Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts - Part 2

    3 Apr 2012 | 11:06 am
    In part 2 of Fr. Tom's reflection on the Pre-Santified Liturgy, he talks about a mis-guided practice from the previous centuries of denying the gifts to children or the mentally impaired.

  • The Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts - Part 1

    25 Mar 2012 | 12:07 pm
    Fr. Tom has received several e-mails asking about the development of the Pre-Sanctified Liturgy. In this 2 part talk, he gives us the history and elements of this well-loved service of the Church.
 
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    Jewish Treats

  • Keeping Ethical

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Pikei Avot is commonly translated as Ethics of Our Fathers because many of its statements focus on ethical behavior. For those striving to be ethical, “Nittai the Arbelite says: Keep far from an evil neighbor, do not associate with a wicked man, and do not abandon the belief in retribution” (1:7).Let’s take a closer look at these suggestions:“Keep far away from an evil neighbor.” When a person is looking for a place to live, it is important to know more than just whether the house or apartment is nice, or structurally sound. “Location, location, location” from an ethical…

  • Good Neighbors

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    While Nittai the Arbelite warns to keep far from an evil neighbor, it is good to enhance peace in the world by being friendly with your neighbors.

  • The Soviet Jewry Movement

    15 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    May is Jewish American Heritage Month. At first glance, a discussion of the Soviet Jewry Movement may seem like an odd choice for Jewish American history, but the movement had a powerful effect on the American Jewish community.While the USSR was the first nation to recognize the State of Israel in 1948, it was not long before “Zionism” in the USSR became an anathema. Soviet Jews, especially those who identified themselves as Zionists, were marked for persecution, often losing their jobs or, worse, being arrested. Even those Jews who were not Zionists or not even strongly identified as…

  • To Organize

    15 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    If you feel passionately about a cause, organize.

  • Continual Presence

    14 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    The tumultuous record of Jewish history has led many to wonder how Jews can remain faithful to the Torah. But the very exiles and persecutions that might shake our faith are mentioned in the Torah (Leviticus 26) with a sense of inevitability: not if, but when.The continual exile among foreign nations* is declared in Leviticus 26:33, "and I will scatter you among the heathens." One can even read of the crisis in faith that comes from exile in the despairing words of Leviticus 26:36, "Upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness of heart."    The concept of…
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  • The Pastor Who Wouldn’t Go Away

    C. Holland
    2 May 2012 | 3:29 pm
    The Pastor Who Wouldn’t Go AwayNew Post from: Missionary Confidential Halfway through the furlough presentations, he showed up again. I thought we were done with all of this. About a year and a half into our mission in Western Europe, one of our supporting church pastors arrived in our country. Out of the blue. With three other people. In fairness, he had contacted us in an email a couple of months prior, simply stating that he thought he might come over to our mission field. That was it: no dates, no mention of whether it would be a “fun trip” to visit us or a “mission trip” to do…

  • From the Missionary Blogosphere

    C. Holland
    21 Feb 2012 | 9:02 am
    From the Missionary BlogosphereNew Post from: Missionary Confidential It’s back! After a year’s hiatus, “From the Missionary Blogosphere” re-emerges. An executive director of a missions agency reveals his five mistakes in sending missionaries. Are we “too dependent on the satisfaction of having done something for them over there?” Thoughts on why the Missional Movement will fail. A former MK reveals the lies that MKs believe. What are poor kids learning from the rich kids who go on short-term missions? This post means a lot to me at the moment, and I think…

  • Furlough: Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

    C. Holland
    17 Feb 2012 | 11:59 am
    Furlough: Six of One, Half a Dozen of the OtherNew Post from: Missionary Confidential Furlough. Wow. Ugh. I had a lot of trepidation about the demands of furlough. Some of them proved to be correct, others must have been myths, or churches are changing how they treat missionaries. We learned a lot through the time, and for the few who seemed interested in what their church had been supporting for up to six years, I’m glad we got to speak. If you remember from the last post on this subject, “Yet Sometimes God Closes the Door”, we spent our first few months catching up with family and…

  • Question: What Book(s) Would You Recommend to People Who Want to be a Missionary?

    C. Holland
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:58 pm
    Question: What Book(s) Would You Recommend to People Who Want to be a Missionary?New Post from: Missionary Confidential I’d like to read more this year, and missiology/missions is definitely on the subject list. I’m thinking of possibly reviewing some of those books on this site so: What book(s) would you recommend to someone who says, “I’m thinking of becoming a missionary/going on a short-term mission trip” or asks the question, “What’s it like to be a missionary?” Hit the comments below! Related posts: Question Week: What Books Would You…

  • Do You Give Christmas Gifts to Your Supporters?

    C. Holland
    19 Dec 2011 | 7:27 pm
    Do You Give Christmas Gifts to Your Supporters?New Post from: Missionary Confidential The latest newsletter from The Body Builders talks about the importance of sending gifts to your supporters, not only to encourage better relationships with your financial partners but also to help maintain giving. I have to be honest; in our almost five years in the field, we never sent Christmas gifts. As much as we communicated and made sure to send letters, postcards and make phone calls to our supporters, we just couldn’t afford to buy and ship packages from our field. The cost was too high. But…
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  • Checking Out City Creek Mall: What Was All That Fuss About?

    Jeff Lindsay:
    15 May 2012 | 6:58 pm
    After all the grumbling and accusations I've heard from critics of the Church over the City Creek Center (the big new mall in downtown Salt Lake City), I put on my spiritual flak jacket and went to downtown Salt Lake City during a brief visit to see the tragedy for myself. My testimony somehow came out unscathed. OK, it helps knowing a little about the purpose of the Mall (giving back to the community to create jobs, reducing urban blight, and making the downtown Salt Lake City area hosting Church headquarters more vibrant and healthy) and the facts about the money (not tithing money). But…

  • Appreciating the Restoration of Ancient Christian Concepts: Baptism for the Dead and Related Doctrines

    Jeff Lindsay:
    14 May 2012 | 6:03 pm
    Sometimes we Latter-day Saints get too caught up with out day-to-day activities or with our own personal discontents and fail to appreciate just how marvelous the Restoration has been. Some aspects of the Restoration demand much more contemplation and study to realize how majestic and miraculous they are, but too often we take them for granted and see them as more human or random than they really are. Baptism for the dead is one of those unique fruits of the Restoration that really deserves a lot more respect, admiration, and contemplation. Toward that end, here are some great resources that…

  • 17 Miracles: A Film About More Than Just a Handcart Company

    Jeff Lindsay:
    7 May 2012 | 9:51 am
    While visiting family in Salt Lake City yesterday, I was able to view the film 17 Miracles. First, the camera work was outstanding as was the acting and directing, IMHO. The movie helped me to better appreciate why the story of the Willie Handcart Company gets so much attention in Church lore. It really is a compelling symbol of our mortal journey, highlighting the human goodness that can be found in the midst of trouble, and the tender mercies of the Lord that we can experience on a trail of tears. Further, the humble faithfulness of Levi Savage illustrates so much about the Gospel that we…

  • Ugly TSA Episodes: Does China Have More Freedom Than the United States?

    Jeff Lindsay:
    7 May 2012 | 6:43 am
    After living in China and traveling to many parts of Asia this past year, it was a real shock coming to the United States a few days ago. The feeling of helplessly facing unbridled power was greatest when encountering the TSA gang in the land of liberty. Going through security in China, an officially Communist nation, is a pleasant breeze. They are fast, friendly, and respectful of personal privacy, in my opinion. Not so TSA in the United States. Not only are lines longer and slower than in many Asian nations, so it seems to me, but the procedures and attitudes seem more like what one would…

  • Dealing with Our Personal Dissent

    Jeff Lindsay:
    29 Apr 2012 | 9:32 am
    For many Latter-day Saints, there will be times when we disagree with a Church leader or even with a Church policy. First, we must understand that this is natural and is an inherent consequence of allowing mortals into the Church. We do not believe in the infallibility of anybody or anything other than God, so even inspired prophets chosen by God are prone to mistakes, as are the rest of us in the Church who sometimes find that our own views and opinions are (surprise!) much superior to those of the Brethren or anyone else who disagrees with us. In fact, those who disagree with the Church on…
 
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  • New Article: Santeria

    29 Apr 2012 | 9:27 pm
    Some time ago I started work on Vodou (Voodoo).  This month I've added another African Diaspora religion: Santeria.  Both religions originated in Africa and was brought to the new World by African slaves.  There the beliefs mixed with that of the natives, of Christians, and of the slave experience in general.

  • Nazi Symbols and their Origins

    29 Apr 2012 | 9:18 pm
    This might have been motivated by the fact that I'm currently teaching about World War II in my history class.  My brain is rather overloaded in horribleness at the moment. There are a handful of symbols Westerners immediately identify as a part of Naziism.  However, these symbols generally have older origins, and these origins have very little in common with the ideology of the Nazis.  I've started a new gallery of such Nazi symbols, which includes the swastika I wrote about a couple weeks ago as well as the Black Sun article I've just added.

  • New Articles: Swastikas and Suicide Cults

    16 Apr 2012 | 6:35 am
    The swastika has a very sad history, and not just because of its association with the Nazis and the Holocaust.  Many cultures have revered the symbol for thousands of years and, indeed, still do.  In the West, however, that is culturally difficult, as the average viewer immediately connects the image to the Nazis....Read Full Post

  • Facebook Page Properly Updating

    11 Apr 2012 | 9:25 am
    Blog posts are now automatically updating on my Altreligion Facebook page.  Hopefully Twitter will be set up soon as well, but to be honest, I really do not like using Twitter.  I find it very difficult to effectively communicate with other people through it.  So if you're wanting to share your views, I would suggest the blog, the Facebook page, and the forum.  The forum is very quiet right now, but the only way to make it not quiet is for people to take an interest in it.  I accept that the forum may simply not be the best medium for this particular group site.

  • What Was Heaven's Gate?

    31 Mar 2012 | 9:34 am
    It was national news in 1997 when 39 members of Heaven's Gate committed suicide.  Most people believed the group vanished at that point.  After all, the members were dead.  In fact, not all members committed suicide, and the survivors continue to spread their message of an approaching apocalypse and salvation through separation from earthly ties.  For them, the spiritual world is an alien one.  The destroyers and the saviors alike are advanced aliens.
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  • A National Day of Pluralism?

    Todd Hebert
    14 May 2012 | 4:49 pm
    America is a nation of diversity. At it’s worst, this diversity creates polarity and division. “Us and them” thinking sees differences in culture as weird, negative or wrong. But many view America’s diversity as one of its biggest assets. Pluralism, when diversity is embraced and actively promoted, is a fundamental part of the American experience. Pluralism is infused in our founding documents and throughout our history. One particular pluralist, Andrew Bowen, is campaigning for a National Day of Pluralism. From the petition: I believe a National Day of Pluralism, by…

  • No, not those Ten Commandments

    Todd Hebert
    12 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    To billions around the globe, the Ten Commandments are a fundamental set of rules to base ones moral and religious lives. To many others, outside of the Judea-Christian tradition, the set of guidelines is problematic or simply unnecessary. Like the Golden Rule and the Seven Deadly Sins, several other versions of the Ten Commandments exist. The following just happen to be non-religious versions. Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments Philosopher and agnostic Bertrand Russell constructed his own list of commandments, published by Everyman magazine in 1930. Do not lie to yourself. Do not lie…

  • Monday morning poem

    Todd Hebert
    7 May 2012 | 4:10 am
    Where Everything is Music Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music. The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere, and even if the whole world’s harp should burn up, there will still be hidden instruments playing. So the candle flickers and goes out. We have a piece of flint, and a spark. This singing art is sea foam. The graceful movements come from a pearl somewhere on the ocean floor. Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the…

  • Interview with Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch

    Todd Hebert
    4 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    The Beastie Boys’ gray headed, gravelly voiced member Adam Yauch (MCA) passed away today after a battle with cancer. Yauch, a long-time buddhist, talked with Shambhala Sun back in 1995 about his spiritually and other things. From Shambhala Sun: Loud, clever, witty, weird and POSITIVE, the Beastie Boys are one of the world’s biggest alternative bands. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch brought Tibetan music and Buddhist philosophy to their latest album, Ill Communication. He talks to The Shambhala Sun about hip-hop, hardcore, helping people, and “gettin’ stupid.” Amy Green:…

  • Friday Hymn: Jesus Gonna Be Here

    Todd Hebert
    4 May 2012 | 7:06 am
    Wow, wow, wow! This is a mind-blowing, goose-bump-inducing, passionate performance of “Jesus Gonna Be Here.” Tom Waits is a prophet. Tom Waits is a god. He may be possessed by the devil himself. Well, Jesus will be here Be here soon he’s gonna cover us up with leaves With a blanket from the moon With a promise and a vow And a lullaby for my brow Jesus gonna be here Be here soon Well I’m just gonna wait here I don’t have to shout I have no reason and I have no doubt I’m gonna get myself Unfurled from this mortal coiled up world Because Jesus gonna be here Be…
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    Blogging Theologically | Jesus, Books, Culture, & Theology

  • Book Review: The Intolerance of Tolerance by D.A. Carson

    Aaron Armstrong
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    One doesn’t have to be a great student of culture to know that there’s been a shift in how we view the world. It’s a change that, D.A. Carson argues, is subtle in form, but massive in substance. What’s happened? We’ve changed our understanding of tolerance. We’ve moved from an understanding that accepts the existence of different views to one that presupposes the acceptance of those same views. “To accept that a different or opposing position exists and deserves the right to exist is one thing; to accept the position itself means that one is no longer…

  • Links I Like

    Aaron Armstrong
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    How a Book is Born I’ve heard rumors that this is so: If We Believe All the Same Things, Why Do Our Churches Seem So Different? Kevin DeYoung: Have you ever been talking to a pastor or someone from another church and it seems like you should be kindred spirits. The person you meet is obviously a warm-hearted, sincere Christian. They don’t have a problem with any of the doctrines you mention as precious to you and your church. They don’t affirm liberal positions on major theological questions. They nod vigorously when you talk about the Bible and prayer and church planting and the…

  • That Which His Holiness Demanded, His Grace Has Provided

    Aaron Armstrong
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    The “god” which the vast majority of professing Christians “love” is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the “indiscretions” of youth. But the Word says, “Thou hatest all workers of iniquity” (Psa 5:5). And again, “God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psa 7:11). But men refuse to believe in this God, and gnash their teeth when His hatred of sin is faithfully pressed upon their attention. No, sinful man was no more likely to devise a holy God than to create the Lake of Fire in which he will be…

  • Links I Like

    Aaron Armstrong
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Seven Marks of a Good Theologian C. Michael Patton: Are you willing to change your position? What if the evidence was not on your side? Are you lead purely by your emotional convictions? If you cannot change, what gives you the right to require it of others. Theologians will always be adapting because they know don’t have it all figured out. Michael Horton, Gender Stereotypes, and Me Douglas Wilson: There are certain creational differences between the sexes, which God intended to be operative from the begining of the world to the end of it. Women bearing and nurturing children would be…

  • 4 Functions of Sound Doctrine

    Aaron Armstrong
    14 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Recently, I wrote that one of the key functions of doctrine is that it divides. Because Jesus himself is the most divisive person ever to live, all doctrine that aligns with him will necessarily cause division. But that’s not all that doctrine does. Consider Paul’s words to Timothy in 1 Tim. 4:6-16: If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed. Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily…
 
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  • Abuse the Gay Away

    2 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    To the dismay of many religious circles the “Pray the Gay Away” programs just don’t seem to be working. A North Carolina pastor has challenged his congregation to try a new tactic when their male sons act effeminate – to punch them. "So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, 'Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,' you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to…

  • Mark’s Birthday

    14 Dec 2011 | 5:48 pm
    If you didn’t get the point to this movie please pay attention. Baby Jesus wants to blow out his own damn candles – anything less makes him cry.

  • Christian Sisters Rebuttal to Rick Perry

    14 Dec 2011 | 5:03 pm
    The Squirrel wants to know when these girls are old enough to run for political office.

  • A Great Anti Tea Party Sign

    8 Oct 2011 | 2:03 pm
    *snicker*

  • Looking Slick, Missing the Love

    23 Sep 2011 | 1:44 am
    President and Founder of the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, Matt Slick, spent the evening protesting W. Paul Young’s (the author of The Shack) speech at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. He missed an incredible night of stories of God’s intimate and loving involvement in our lives while standing on the street corner letting people they shouldn’t be attending what he thought would be a heretical discussion. He tried to get into a discussion with me about universalism when I went out to take his picture. He asked me if I thought everybody was forgiven. I told…
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  • Stay In The Conversation

    Beau Lebens
    15 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog. We made the initial changes last week and after great feedback from you we just launched an update. Here’s how it works: By default, posting a comment…

  • Look at These Gorgeous Blogs

    Sheri
    15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing with WordPress.com themes and customizations by clicking a thumbnail to see a colophon-style list of credits on the left. We’ve also updated footer links so blog owners can show off the types of customizations they’ve made and visitors can…

  • Photo Blogging 101, Part 1

    Erica V.
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. Getting started Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including…

  • New Themes: Just Desserts and Oxygen

    Michelle Langston
    10 May 2012 | 8:11 am
    Happy Thursday! We’ve added some exciting new themes to our ever-growing collection, and we’re happy to tell you all about them. First out of the oven is…Just Desserts. Yep, that’s a theme! Designed by Andy Rutledge, Just Desserts is a deliciously stylish premium theme that’s perfect for blogs centered on food. With its responsive, single-column layout and unique presentation of images and posts on the front page, Just Desserts gives you a delectable canvas on which your mouthwatering photos and text can really shine — even when viewed on smaller mobile devices…

  • Find Friends Who Use WordPress

    Nick Momrik
    1 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites! After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don’t worry — none of this account information is saved!) you’ll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites. Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow. If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the…
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    Killing the Buddha

  • Burning Faith

    Christian Nicolás Desrosiers
    16 May 2012 | 11:40 am
    Traveling by bus through central Java, through towns along Mount Merapi’s western slopes, I was reminded of one of Calvino’s invisible cities: the city of Argia, which is filled with dirt. “Clay packs the rooms to the ceiling,” he writes, “on every stair another stairway is set in negative, over the roofs of the houses hang layers of rocky terrain like skies with clouds.” Lahar dingin, a cold volcanic flow, had settled on these towns, smothering them in a heavy gray sludge that was in many places more than ten meters high. Houses became half-houses, the tops of windows and a roof.

  • Buddha-killing The Avengers: Puny God

    Eric Scott
    13 May 2012 | 6:24 pm
    Behold, Part 2 of the epic saga ‘Buddha-killing The Avengers’! Today’s dispatch comes to us from KtB contributing editor Eric Scott, who has written lots of great stories about life in contemporary paganism–including two wonderful exegeses on the Marvel careers of Thor and Loki, characters who reside in the Norse-mythological realm of Asgard. His Buddha-killing weapon of choice may be Mjolnir, hammer of Thor! –KtBniks I spent the entirety of last Thursday in a movie theater in the outer suburbs of St. Louis. That was, of course, the opening night for The…

  • Buddha-killing The Avengers: Hulk Reflections

    Becky Garrison
    12 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    Here at KtB, we do like to explore the margins of faith, but once in a while we like to sharpen our Buddha-killing swords on a nice big piece of ultra-pop culture, to mix several metaphors.  And there’s nothing bigger than this summer’s Marvel blockbuster The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon and starring Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor, and several other supporting superheroes. (Rachel Maddow couldn’t resist either.)  The plot is impossible to summarize, though it does of course involve saving the universe. We Buddha-killers are more interested in the clashing…

  • This Far and No Further

    Mary Valle
    10 May 2012 | 8:30 pm
    After the announced LCWR “crackdown,” I was in a Jo-Ann fabric store. A few women in line were deriding the Girl Scouts for being “radical feminists.” I had to butt in and note that if being competent is radically feminist, then Girl Scouts are. I made a lot of jokes about my being “2 for 2” as a radical feminist that week. Now the USCCB is attacking the Girl Scouts.  I felt this coming, somehow. Groups of women gathering, independently, just stick in their craw the way a lot of other things—and I think you know what other things I’m talking about—don’t. The USCCB…

  • What KTB Stands For*

    KtBniks
    9 May 2012 | 6:40 pm
    It’s not often that we busy Buddha-killers have time to toot our own horn. One might even say that Buddha-killing and horn-tooting are somewhat incompatible. So when our esteemed co-founder Peter Manseau shared this modest piece of information about the traditional meaning of the three-letter sequence K-T-B on the Twittersphere the other day, we KtBniks, as we call ourselves, thought it was worth sharing: “K-T-B is a triconsonantal root of a number of Semitic words, typically those having to do with writing.” In Arabic, the words for book, writer, office, and library are all…
 
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  • Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

    Beatrice Marovich
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    When it comes to the consumption of meat, our human hands have long been dirty. This isn’t a discouragement to stop striving for the good. But a moral proposal that promises to wash our filthy fingers spotlessly clean—in seconds flat—is suspect. Because they will still be dirty. The pressing moral question, of meat, becomes: given that human hands are obviously soiled, what can be done with these polluted tools?

  • Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

    Anthea Butler
    14 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    It’s time to for the leaders of the Black Church to ‘put away childish things’ and to engage in a real conversation about sexuality in their communities.

  • Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

    Mary Valle
    13 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror flick—among others in the ’60s and ’70s—may provide some surprising insights into the GOP’s “War on Women.”

  • Coming Out As a Heretic

    Kate Blanchard
    10 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    For folks who are unorthodox but aren’t atheists, who care about metaphysics but who aren’t mystics, perhaps the good old-fashioned term “heretic” will satisfy. 

  • Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish

    Jodi Eichler-Levine
    9 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Maurice Sendak lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, yet he refused to claim that identity and chosenness solely for the Jewish people. 
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    On Being Both

  • The Five Year Engagement: Jason Segel’s Interfaith Worldview

    Susan Katz Miller
    2 May 2012 | 9:16 am
    Plenty of movies depict interfaith couples: Exodus, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally. The new romantic comedy The Five Year Engagement chronicles the courtship of chef Tom (Jewish), and graduate student Violet (Christian). Actor Jason Segel, the leading man and script co-writer, happens to hail from an interfaith family himself. So I went to see the movie, searching for traces of Segel’s view on interfaith life. Last year, Segel co-wrote and starred in The Muppets. The first time I heard “Man or Muppet,” the Grammy-nominated song from that movie, the song immediately struck…

  • Muslim and Jewish: Interfaith on “Shahs of Sunset”

    Susan Katz Miller
    26 Apr 2012 | 8:01 am
    I don’t usually watch reality TV. But recently, I found myself gorging on the entire first season of Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset, which concluded earlier this month. The show depicts Iranian-American (Persian) singles partying and shopping their way through LA and Las Vegas in the highest of styles. Critics have focused on ravaging the shallow stereotypes of the Persian community, and decrying the predictable glitz and hyped-up drama of reality shows. What drew me to Shahs was the unusual depiction of a close circle of Jewish and Muslim friends. Bound by their common experience as…

  • Passover and Easter: Interfaith Family Afterword

    Susan Katz Miller
    12 Apr 2012 | 8:05 am
    The hardest part about celebrating Easter and Passover with my extended interfaith clan in Florida is extricating ourselves from the multigenerational lovefest–and leaving behind all the leftovers when we fly home. My family gathers from England, California, New York and Washington. For three days this year we planned, shopped and cooked for the Easter dinner and the Passover Seder. When we drove to the airport to get the kids back to school at the end of their spring break we regretfully left behind the leftover brisket, roast potatoes and carrots, matzoh ball soup, charoset, and…

  • Passover and Good Friday

    Susan Katz Miller
    3 Apr 2012 | 3:26 pm
    This year, I am fielding calls from reporters wanting to know how we handle the dilemma of Passover starting on Good Friday. I know that, especially for young couples just starting their interfaith journey, this convergence of important holidays may create stress. Say, for instance, your in-laws are expecting you for a raucous Passover seder featuring four glasses of wine and glazed brisket: this could be an alienating experience if you are also commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and avoiding meat on the solemn Friday of Holy Week. As interfaith families become the norm in our culture,…

  • “Half Jewish” Conference: Rare Focus on Heirs of Intermarriage

    Susan Katz Miller
    28 Mar 2012 | 9:51 am
    Interfaith marriage receives a fair amount of attention from researchers, foundations and religious institutions. The children of intermarriage, not so much. This, in spite of the fact that the children of intermarriage are now the majority of children with Jewish ancestry. Thus, I celebrate the upcoming colloquium entitled  “Half Jewish?” The Heirs of Intermarriage, in Chicago from April 20-22, organized by The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in cooperation with the Hillels at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. The term…
 
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  • Solo hay que mirar

    ojohnson
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    ¡Mirad a mí y sed salvos, todos los términos de la tierra! Isaías 45: 22 No son muchos los que en medio de una fuerte tormenta van a la iglesia, pero esa fría mañana de enero, Charles decide ir al culto. Pronto se da cuenta de que no podrá llegar y opta por entrar a una pequeña capilla que está más cerca de su casa. Rápidamente se percata que el servicio no será lo que está acostumbrado a presenciar: pocas personas están ahí, y el predicador no ha llegado. Uno de los dirigentes de la iglesia sale al frente y lee de manera torpe Isaías 45: 22: «Miren a mí y sean salvos, todos…

  • El momento de la verdad

    dguzman
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    ¿Cómo podría yo hacer algo tan malo, y pecar contra Dios? Génesis. 39:9 y Cuál es la mejor arma contra la tentación? Es la profunda convicción de que ,no importa donde estemos ni lo que hagamos, la presencia de Dios nos acompaña. Probablemente ningún ejemplo ilustre mejor esta afirmación que el de José, el hijo de Jacob. Cuando era todavía un adolescente, José fue vendido como esclavo por sus hermanos a unos ismaelitas que iban rumbo a Egipto. Allí fue comprado por un capitán del ejército de Faraón llamado Potifar. Aparentemente, no pasó mucho tiempo antes que Potifar se…

  • ¿Envidioso yo?

    dguzman
    13 May 2012 | 11:32 pm
    La mente tranquila es vida para el cuerpo, pero la envidia corroe hasta los huesos. Proverbios 14: 30 Estaba a bordo de un avión. La noche anterior no había dormido bien y me propuse recuperar parte del sueño perdido mientras viajaba. Me tocó uno de los primeros asientos. En la misma fila, pero en el ala contigua, se sentó un señor de mediana edad. Al parecer, tenía planes idénticos a los míos. Mientras me aco­modé para dormir, él hizo lo mismo. Entonces ocurrió algo inusual. Apenas el hombre recostó la cabeza en el respaldo del asiento, en cuestión de segundos co­menzó a…

  • Hijos agradecidos

    dguzman
    13 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    Respeten todos ustedes a su madre y a su padre [...] Yo soy el Señor su Dios. Levítico 19: 3 Ese día la clase estaba por finalizar. La maestra había hablado sobre las madres de la Biblia y entonces oró: «Dios, espero que alguna persona, en algún momento, funde un día especial para honrar a las madres por el servicio que prestan a la humanidad. Realmente lo merecen». Quien así oró fue la Sra. Jarvis. Lo que ella nunca imaginó fue que Ana, su hija de doce años, quien estaba en el salón de clases, quedaría impresionada por esa oración. Cuando su madre falleció el 9 de mayo de…

  • Recursos E.S.: Evangelización y testificación corporativas

    ojohnson
    12 May 2012 | 6:52 am
    Lección 7: Evangelización y testificación corporativas Descargue los folletos en PDF para estudiar la lección de la escuela sabática del Segundo trimestre de 2012 titulada: Evangelismo y testificación. Espere el resumen escuela sabática todos los Viernes. Recursos para descargar de escuela sabática Notas de Elena G. White Folleto Adultos Escuela Sabática Folleto Maestros Escuela Sabática Libro Complementario Lección de Cuna Lección de Infantes Lección de Primarios Lección de Intermediarios Lección Juvenil (El Universitario) “No olvides enviarle este artículo por correo…
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    Amish America

  • Cornhole

    Erik/Amish America
    16 May 2012 | 5:08 am
    Cornhole is a game popular among Amish in some communities. I played it once in Ohio at an Amish birthday cookout. I’d say it’s got elements of horseshoes and shuffleboard to it. If you’re not familiar with cornhole, it’s pretty simple. You’ve got two slightly elevated boards with a medium-sized hole towards one end of each board. You place them some distance apart and take tuns tossing bags toward the target. The surface of the boards is slick enough to allow the bag to slide when they land on it. You can land the beanbag directly in the hole–a direct…

  • Ethridge, Tennessee Amish Map

    Erik/Amish America
    15 May 2012 | 5:58 am
    The Ethridge, Tennessee Amish community is the largest in the South. It’s a Swartzentruber Amish settlement founded in the 1940s. Today there are about 1,500 Amish living here. Typical of Swartzentruber settlements, it is a farming community supplemented by a lot of small shops and home enterprises. Amish commerce extends off the farm with some selling products off the back of the buggy in the parking lot of a local tourist outlet. This map of Amish business locations is found in a brochure distributed by the Amish Welcome Center, located off Highway 43 in the middle of the settlement.

  • Amish go a long way…for business

    Erik/Amish America
    14 May 2012 | 4:47 am
    I got a kick out of this story, about a Colorado resident who hired a Lancaster Amish crew to travel 1,700 miles to build a fence. No doubt Colorado being the destination had something to do with their willingness to go. A less picturesque part of America may not have enticed the crew.  As a largely Midwest and Eastern people with a soft spot for the outdoors, the majestic West captivates the Amish imagination. A popular trip for young Amish men involves traveling by bus or train (or car) cross-country. Only a relatively few Amish have ever made Western states home, though (see Amish in…

  • Happy Mother’s Day…

    Erik/Amish America
    11 May 2012 | 3:31 am
    …a couple of days in advance. To celebrate the occasion, how about a Mother’s Day edition of Christina Stutzman’s Milroy Musings, from The Connection. In this 2011 column Christina shares Mother’s Day greetings plus some quirky historical info on a town in her area: And how about a Mother’s Day poem by Alma Bontrager: And here’s one more column from a Connection mother, if you missed it. Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there! To read this post in full, click the blue title link above. Question on the Amish? Try the Amish Online Encyclopedia.

  • Amish burn treatment or the emergency room?

    Erik/Amish America
    10 May 2012 | 7:58 am
    This is just a heartbreaker.  A 2-year-old boy in Ohio died after severe scalding last week. Following the burn (hot water tipped onto him from the kitchen stove) he was first taken to be treated with an “Amish home burn treatment” of B and W ointment and burdock leaves. When he began going into shock the following day, he was brought to the hospital, but it was too late. It’s unclear whether this boy was technically Amish (his father is said to have left the community a few years ago; the mother’s status isn’t explained, the home address seems not to be Amish).
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    Italian Mother Syndrome

  • The torch singer within: A tale of nature vs. nurture

    Julia Rocchi
    13 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    The three judges sat about six rows back in the middle school auditorium, waiting for me to launch into my audition song for the Arlington Singing Competition (sort of an ‘Arlington Idol’ for local songbirds). I blinked against the stage light, willed my allergies to disappear, and began to sing ‘How Are Things In Glocca Morra’ a cappella. I had barely gotten through the intro when the judges cut me short. Oh crap, I thought. Was that worse than I thought? I'd signed up for the competition with a simple goal: audition. Didn't matter if I made it -- the point was to stay in practice…

  • When memories outweigh dreams: A reflection on aging

    Julia Rocchi
    7 May 2012 | 7:47 pm
    Claude learns how to take a smartphone picture. May 2012. The grocer kept a store book -- a ledger with my family's running account. One day my mama sent me to the store to pick up a pound of hamburger meat. The grocer told me our account had hit $90: "Claude, I can't do anything more for you until your daddy pays the bill." I thought that was it. We were all going to starve. If only I had a video camera rolling, I often thought this past weekend. There I was, riding shotgun to my 88- (soon 89-) year-old pen pal Claude, an old friend in the most literal sense. He had asked me to meet him in…

  • "In the war of magic and religion"

    Julia Rocchi
    30 Apr 2012 | 8:36 pm
    Photo by linkogecko In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer. -- Patti Smith, Just Kids Prayer #207: This Magic Moment Magic never begs. The magician, in her hubris, leans on secret compartments and secret-keeping. Power rests with the hand the wields the wand and the eye that accepts the trick. Belief is complicit. Not so with prayer. The supplicant, in her humility, senses the audience in the dark and wonders aloud if they are paying…

  • Love letter to a break-up (and its ally)

    Julia Rocchi
    22 Apr 2012 | 11:25 am
    Photo by jasoneppink Dear Break-Up, Time for a post-mortem. You know what I'm talking about. How easy it was to stick with the status quo, even when the quo involved distance and graduate school. How tempting it was, when I lapsed into doubt, to return to the relationship resume, the one that made us perfect together on paper, the one that argued why in today's kiss-and-run dating world, we had all the ingredients for long-term success. In this sense, Break-Up, you were wily. You always skipped around the back of my mind after hard conversations. Your ears perked up when warning bells chimed…

  • When heaven is wedded to earth

    Julia Rocchi
    14 Apr 2012 | 5:41 pm
    Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth and man is reconciled with God! -- Easter Vigil Exsultet --- "... [T]here was a raised stone dais in the center of the lowered floor, and upon this dais stood a stone archway that looked so ancient, cracked, and crumbling that Harry was amazed the thing was still standing. Unsupported by the surrounding wall, the archway was hung with a tattered black curtain or veil which, despite the complete stillness of the cold surrounding air, was fluttering very slightly as though it had been touched. [...] He had the strangest feeling that there was…
 
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    Patheos Articles - Mormon

  • Mother's Day and Mary's Work

    9 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    We can honor our mothers as inheritors of the work of Mary.

  • Salvation as Divine Life

    2 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Grace is received through and in a God-given and God-ordered life. This is not about salvation by works but about participating in the divine nature.

  • Being a Hypocrite

    26 Apr 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Since the danger of self-deception is so great, especially when it comes to thinking about myself, I ought not to presume my innocence.

  • What Is Scripture: Muslims and Mormons

    18 Apr 2012 | 5:00 pm
    I know the Bible and the Book of Mormon to be the word of God, but I can also say I know the Quran to contain his word.

  • "They Without Us Cannot Be Made Perfect"

    4 Apr 2012 | 5:00 pm
    The teaching is one of eternal love and commitment rather than of force and coercion. Mormon proxy ordinance work is a matter of family rather than popularity or renown.
 
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    Truth Lighthouse

  • Homosexuality In America

    Philippians 3-14
    13 May 2012 | 6:04 pm
    Recently, Barack Obama became the first US President in history to outright support gay marriage.

  • Surrounded By That Which Is Right

    Philippians 3-14
    6 Sep 2011 | 12:18 am
    If we are surrounded by sinners, we are likely to become more like them. We must remove the temptation and be surrounded by that which is right.

  • Prosperity Gospel

    Philippians 3-14
    19 Aug 2011 | 3:10 am
    Does God want us to be rich? Some ministers think so. So do some Christians. In fact, a very similar topic arose when Jesus was with His disciples.

  • Before The Lord

    Philippians 3-14
    19 Aug 2011 | 3:07 am
    Have you ever wondered what that day will be like when we get to see the Lord? What an amazing experience it will be.

  • Debating Doctrine

    Philippians 3-14
    19 Aug 2011 | 3:04 am
    What if Christian believers of opposing doctrines could not debate doctrinal issues using anything but scripture?
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    Life Changing Preaching and Teaching

  • Hagar, What Aileth You?

    embcministry
    15 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    God loves you and has a plan for your life, if you hold on God will strengthen you.  Pastor Todd uses the story of Hagar to show us  that God forgives and he can turn any mess into a miracle. Send us your email to embc510@sbcglobal.net or call 414-372-8568 to let us know how thismessage has helped you. For additional information please visit ourwebsite atwww.embcministry.org

  • God Will Provide

    embcministry
    15 May 2012 | 12:06 pm
    If God said it He’ll do it but we must be willing to wait.  Listen as Pastor Todd preaches a message about God being the true provider. Send us your email to embc510@sbcglobal.net or call 414-372-8568 to let us know how thismessage has helped you. For additional information please visit ourwebsite atwww.embcministry.org

  • Building A Legacy:Don’t Forget God

    embcministry
    6 May 2012 | 10:46 pm
    Your legacy is what you leave behind and not necessarily tangible things, those things that aren’t positive about you are a part of your legacy. God can deliver you from those things whatever they may be. Miss Phyllis Todd delivers a message about keeping God in the center of your life legacy. Send us your email to embc510@sbcglobal.net or call 414-372-8568 to let us know how thismessage has helped you. For additional information please visit ourwebsite atwww.embcministry.org

  • I Will

    embcministry
    2 May 2012 | 12:58 pm
    “If you take care of God’s business he’ll take care of  yours…” Listen to this message entitled I Will by Pastor Todd and decide if you will. Send us your email toembc510@sbcglobal.net or call 414-372-8568 to let us know how thismessage has helped you. For additional information please visit ourwebsite atwww.embcministry.org

  • Deal With Your Ishmaels

    embcministry
    2 May 2012 | 12:51 pm
    We can’t let our past (sins) keep us down and away from God. Pastor Todd preaches a sermon about dealing with the Ishmael’s in our life. Send us your email toembc510@sbcglobal.net or call 414-372-8568 to let us know how thismessage has helped you. For additional information please visit ourwebsite atwww.embcministry.org
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    SCOAN London

  • ANOINTING WATER PRAYER LINE JUNE 3RD

    SCOAN London
    14 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still alive; His name is Jesus Christ! – TB Joshua Emmanuel! By the grace of God, SCOAN London will be holding a Prayer Line service on Sunday 3rd June 2012, where we will be ministering the Anointing Water in Jesus’ name. For those who wish to attend the Prayer Line service, it is essential that you register your name and details by emailing us at uk@scoan.org to explain the situation you wish to receive prayer for. Please ensure you receive a confirmation before making travel arrangements. You can also call us on +44 (0) 2070…

  • TB JOSHUA IN THE TIMES NEWSPAPER – 09/04/2012

    SCOAN London
    10 Apr 2012 | 5:24 am
    The Times newspaper published an article on 09/04/2012 covering the prophecy Prophet TB Joshua gave regarding the death of a president. You can read the article below How prophet with direct line to God predicted President’s death – The Times When the President of Malawi died last week, the country rejoiced. Violently crushing peaceful protests, throwing donors out of the country and lining up his brother to succeed him, President Bingu wa Mutharika was beginning to resemble Robert Mugabe of neighbouring Zimbabwe. The President’s death last Thursday appeared to be a miraculous…

  • PROPHECY: TB Joshua predicts Malawi President’s death

    SCOAN London
    9 Apr 2012 | 7:00 am

  • Wise Man Harry: Revival Services In USA!

    SCOAN London
    26 Feb 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Emmanuel! We are excited to relay the wonderful news that Wise Man Harry will be in Washington State, USA for a series of revival services from Friday March 2nd to Sunday March 4th 2012! If you are in the USA or have the opportunity to travel there, we  really encourage you to get involved in this exciting revival. If you have any friends/ family in the USA, please send this message to them. Remember, God has no mouth but your mouth to encourage people. To register for this wonderful service and for full details and directions to the venue in Pasco, Washington, as well as additional…

  • How To Know Your Calling In Life…

    SCOAN London
    18 Feb 2012 | 7:22 pm
    Emmanuel! Prophet T.B. Joshua recently gave a very practical and powerful message titled ‘The Call Of God’ in which he addressed an important question that is often asked yet seldom answered: ‘How do I know my calling in life?’ Here is a summary of some of the key points of the message, as can be seen showing on Emmanuel TV. Remember, when you step out in the direction of God’s calling for your life, you will astonish yourself and make a difference in your world! How do I know what my calling from God is? The first step in knowing your calling is to get to know…
 
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    CNA Daily News

  • Church condemns Colombian terrorist attack that killed five

    16 May 2012 | 1:04 pm
    Bogotá, Colombia, May 16, 2012 / 12:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of Colombia condemned the terrorist attack that took place in the capital city Bogota on May 14 that left five people dead and nineteen wounded. The attack took place on 74th Street and Caracas Avenue on a public bus, moments after another car bomb was deactivated in the Eduardo Santos district in downtown Bogota. Two other explosive devices on the bus failed to detonate. Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba, secretary general of the bishops' conference, told CNA that the local Church “deplores and rejects these terrorist acts…

  • Vatican splits negotiations with Pius X Society

    16 May 2012 | 11:25 am
    Vatican City, May 16, 2012 / 10:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced it will hold separate talks with the superior general of the breakaway traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and each of its three other bishops to try and acheive reconciliation. “The text of the response of Bishop Bernard Fellay, received on 17 April, 2012, was examined and some observations, which will be considered in further discussions between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, were formulated,” said a communique issued May 16. The statement was…

  • Scott Hahn appointed to endowed chair in theology, evangelization

    16 May 2012 | 9:36 am
    Steubenville, Ohio, May 16, 2012 / 08:36 am (CNA).- The Franciscan University of Steubenville has appointed author and professor Dr. Scott Hahn to an endowed chair named for the priest who pioneered the school's Catholic revival.Hahn's reception of the “Father Michael Scanlan Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization” was announced May 12 during the school's 64th commencement ceremony by Father Terence Henry, TOR, who succeeded Fr. Scanlan as the school's president. “Through his work at Franciscan University, his scholarly research and publications, his popular writing and…

  • FOCUS considers expanding mission to Europe

    16 May 2012 | 5:02 am
    Rome, Italy, May 16, 2012 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- FOCUS campus ministry is considering taking their successful brand of youth apostolate to Europe in order to meet the challenge of evangelizing formerly Christian societies.  Founder and president Curtis Martin called the potential task “unique” in that “you are proclaiming the Gospel to people who already know parts of the Gospel.” “I think there is tremendous opportunity, especially in the Americas, but also in Western Europe because we have such a deep, Catholic Christian culture, but people are drifting away,” he told…

  • First video game about Jesus launches on Facebook

    16 May 2012 | 3:28 am
    Denver, Colo., May 16, 2012 / 02:28 am (CNA).- On the heels of its widely-popular “The Journey of Moses” Facebook game, Lightside Games is venturing into historic territory by creating the first-ever video game based on the life of Jesus. “There's stories that need to be told in games,” Brent Dusing told CNA May 9, “and there's not a lot of games where you can do really good, positive things from a Christian stand point,”  Dusing, the founder and CEO of the Mountain View, Calif.-based Lightside Games, said that the new game, “The Journey of Jesus: The…
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    Divided Under God

  • Science Is No Longer Exact in Tennessee

    Kevin Davis
    22 Apr 2012 | 8:43 pm
    More than 85 years after the Scopes trial in Tennessee, the state is again making headlines for its science education practices. Recently, a bill was passed by the state house and senate that will allow science teachers to insert their own curriculum into the fold, exposing students to whatever brand of “science education” their particular teachers feel is relevant. According to the explanation in The Tennessean, “it encourages students to question accepted scientific theories — listing as examples evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming and cloning — and…

  • Thou Shalt Not Display Commandments in Court

    Kevin Davis
    20 Jul 2011 | 7:29 am
    Finally. A federal judge has ordered Dixie County officials to remove a 5-foot tall monument to the Ten Commandments from the front of a courthouse in Florida. The 6-ton granite waste of taxpayer money must be removed from the courthouse in 30 days, which will ultimately waste another heap of cash in an already financially strapped state. The ACLU of Florida sued the county back in 2007, citing the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. For the Evangelicals reading this, the Establishment Clause prohibits the government from not only establishing religion, but based on case law, also…

  • Pat Robertson is Bat Shit Crazy

    Kevin Davis
    28 Jun 2011 | 11:52 am
    Ok, maybe the title is a little harsh.  But come on, this is a guy that compared Liberals to Nazis, called feminists child murderers, and said that Haiti is suffering because of the pact they made with the devil to get the French out.  And now his latest rant involves same sex marriage.  Recently on the 700 Club, Mr. Robertson explained that America is turning into a modern day Sodom and is heading toward the path of God’s destruction. According to Pat, no civilization has ever embraced homosexuality and survived.  I’m assuming he’s referring to ancient civilizations,…

  • Is Our Country’s Culture Beyond Repair? Why Weiner Should Have Stayed in Office

    Kevin Davis
    16 Jun 2011 | 9:18 am
    The recent developments in the Anthony Weiner “scandal” have forced me to give some thought to what’s going on with American society and whether or not it needs fixing.  There are so many avenues I could go down with this post:  the news media’s obsession with scandal, our voyeuristic culture, the ultra-sensitive fragile feelings of the masses, the opportunistic lawyers and civil rights advocates that are working for the almighty dollar rather than justice, or the tendency toward reveling in others’ pain in the comfort of our living rooms. All of these issues…

  • The Right Has Nothing Better to Do

    Kevin Davis
    14 Mar 2011 | 2:01 pm
    Yup… so instead of focusing on the crisis in the Middle East, unemployment, health care, education, and a myriad of other issues that threaten the great US of A, Michelle Bachmann and her Congressional Prayer Caucus have written a letter to President Obama correcting him on his reference to our National Motto. The Caucus, “dedicated to preserving America’s religious heritage,” (and supported by your tax dollars) has pointed out to our commander in chief that he misspoke in a speech on 11/10/10 in Indonesia, when he referred to our national motto as E pluribus unum…
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    Reflect

  • Contraction Surgery

    Jann Cobb
    14 May 2012 | 3:30 am
     "Expand, Contract, Expand, Contract" We say as we show the students in the 2nd grade classroom how to conduct contraction surgery. Next we place our surgical masks on and squeeze our hands into the plastic gloves.  I of course have put my thumb into the pinkie portion! :)  Using the supplies of scissors, bandages, word sheets and markers we demonstrate how to create a contraction. The surgery is to remove the letters that are not a part of the contraction and then to use a bandage to represent the apostrophe. Once we completed the demonstration, the students began to conduct…

  • Workout Accountability

    Jann Cobb
    12 May 2012 | 1:39 pm
    "5 more minutes!" I grumble as I hit the snooze button. Right then, the self talk begins.  The playlist includes:You worked out yesterday.An hour more of sleep will be good for you.It's too early!You can go tomorrow.Not going, love my pillow too much!Fortunately for me, my husband knows this self talk game that I play so well. On go the bedroom lights, workout clothes are thrown on the bed, and my husband gets fully dressed expecting me to join him. Then he leaves the room to give me time to respond to his sly accountability.  It works! Groggily I get dressed, stumble into the hall,…

  • Paleo Chicken Guacamole wrap

    Jann Cobb
    9 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    I have been looking for a recipe to make a tortilla that can be used as both a wrap and a tortilla that won't fall apart, won't taste like a wanna- be and well, be delicious!  I think I found one!  I was visiting the spunky coconut and I found the recipe!  The first time I tried to make it without the wax paper and it did NOT work. This time I followed the recipe exactly and well, let's just say I ate the whole thing!Chicken Guacamole WrapShredded chickenAvocado (guacamole)SalsaBell peppersCabbageTortilla wrapSpinachSimply layer the ingredients into the wrap, roll it up,…

  • Follow the leader

    Jann Cobb
    7 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Directions to the wedding reception were handed out and we were excited to get the party started. I drove and handed off the directions to the very capable hands of my navigator. I was confident that we would arrive at our destination promptly.Get on the highway Take this exitTurn right Turn Left.We followed the directions exactly until we noticed that there was a caravan of cars that were also going to the wedding. Without thinking or saying anything, we simply stopped reading the directions and began to just follow the other cars in front of us. As the cars turned left into a…

  • Who is Jesus?

    Jann Cobb
    5 May 2012 | 7:18 am
    Who is Jesus to you?I was 10 years old when I first began thinking about who Jesus was. Next to our apartment complex was a Catholic church. Often I would walk over to the church, open the doors and find a quiet spot to sit. The strangely comforting aroma of that holy place still fills my senses. Quietly resting in that space I chatted with God. In those moments, Jesus was my confidant.The summer of my freshman year, Dan Webster gave a message to hundreds of high school students. His message was simple and to the point. Jesus has come to save us and to give us the gift of coming into the…
 
 
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    Shawna R. B. Atteberry

  • Spiritual Practices: Crafts not Programs

    shawna
    10 May 2012 | 2:09 pm
    Prayer, Parable, Symbol by Randy OHC (Flickr) Last month I asked if any of my readers would like me to write about any specific topics that would help you in your walks with Godde. Ally said she wanted to know about devotional practices: the things we do to walk closer to Godde and be more Christ-like.  One of the reasons it’s taken me awhile to start the series is that I’m busy working on a novel, book proposals, and am looking for freelance opportunities as well (both publishers and agents like to see published credits with a book proposal). But I’ve also been dragging my…

  • Maundy Thursday Sermon Podcast: Anointing the King

    shawna
    16 Apr 2012 | 4:05 pm
    I preached this sermon Maundy Thursday, 2012 at Grace Episcopal Church. Yes, The Hubby wrestled with the Amazon Cloud and won. We now have an MP3 of this sermon. Press the link “Anointing the King” to hear the MP3.   Annointing The King Mark 14:1-11 (This sermon is told from the view of the woman who anointed Jesus’ head in Mark. Props: head covering, white jar or container.) (Place container on the altar or pulpit) By that night I had been following him for a long time. I started following him in Galilee. I saw all of his miracles, heard his teaching. I knew who Jesus…

  • Women’s History Month: Florence Nightingale

    shawna
    28 Mar 2012 | 9:00 am
    Florence Nightingale I often say that Brigid of Kildare was my first patron saint, and she is because I chose her as my patron saint after I knew what they were as adult. But as a child I chose another woman. I would have never called her a patron saint: the religious environment I grew up in didn’t have those. But looking back now I realize that Florence Nightingale was my first patron saint. I found a biography of her in the school library when I was in grade school. I’m not sure how old I was. I think third or fourth grade. I fell in love with her. She immediately became a twin…

  • New Testament, Divine Feminie Version: Romans Is Available

    shawna
    26 Mar 2012 | 11:58 am
    I am happy to announce that the book of Romans is now available in the Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament. You can read it or copy it for free at The Christian Godde Project. Matthew, Mark, Galatians, Philippians, and Colossians are also available. (You really, really, really want Colossians because that’s the one yours truly translated. Colossians get Colossians.)/End subliminal message. I hope everyone has a good week. I would also like to know what you need direction in in your own spiritual life. I am a spiritual director, and I would like to write posts to help my readers…

  • The Eternal Dance of the Trinity

    shawna
    21 Mar 2012 | 5:39 pm
    The Daphne Statues at Northerly Island, Chicago Dance, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he. The Trinity made sense to me after the first time I sang this hymn in church a few years ago. Instead of all of the theological and philosophical arguments about  Homo Ousion (same substance) vs. Homoi Ousion (like substance) or hypostasis (one person, 3 substances or elements). (Remember I was a theology major.) Then there’s the simplistic way of thinking of Godde as…
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    Christian Stress Management

  • How to Fight Oppression with Bible Verses

    Dr. Miriam Kinai
    12 May 2012 | 6:27 pm
    How to Fight Oppression with Bible Verses teaches you the awesome Bible verses you need to pray, say as Christian affirmations, and use for your Christian meditation as well as several other things you can do to wage your Christian spiritual warfare against all forms of oppression in your life. Book Excerpt Regardless of whether you are being oppressed by physical persons, tyrannical problems, prohibited substances or spiritual powers, you have to combine spiritual, mental, verbal and physical interventions to form your own holistic deliverance ministry to fight for your freedom from all…

  • Free Christian Ebooks - How to Fight Poverty with Bible Verses

    Dr. Miriam Kinai
    12 May 2012 | 4:28 am
    Free Christian Ebooks How to Fight Poverty with Bible Verses Regardless of how many times you have unsuccessfully tried to break free from the bondage of poverty, you must not despair and accept to die in poverty. You have to decide to believe that God would like you to prosper since His Word says Blessed be God who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant (Psalm 35:27) and Jesus came so that we can Have life and have it to the full. (John 10:10)   Therefore, to have a full life in all fronts, you have to combine spiritual, mental, verbal, and physical interventions to form your own…

  • How to Fight Lying with Bible Verses

    Dr. Miriam Kinai
    11 May 2012 | 9:11 am
    Lying is a serious thing in the sight of God because in addition to forbidding it in the eighth commandment, He tells us that He who tells lies shall not continue in My presence. (Psalm 101:7) So, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor." (Ephesians 4:25) Therefore, regardless of whether you tell white lies or black lies, big lies or baby lies, you have to combine spiritual, verbal, and physical interventions to form your own holistic deliverance ministry to fight lying and deliver your tongue from deception. The first spiritual intervention is to pray and ask…

  • We Are Not Ignorant of His Devices

    Dr. Miriam Kinai
    28 Apr 2012 | 8:21 pm
    Buy We Are Not Ignorant Of His Devices from Amazon  We Are Not Ignorant of His Devices uses Biblical examples to teach the tactics that satan uses to fight God’s people so that you can recognize them, overcome them, and lead a more victorious life. Book Excerpt Device 1 ATTACKING WITH GREAT NUMBERS The Bible tells us that The enemy comes in like a flood (Isaiah 59:19) and we can see him flooding the Israelites with problems when they were being oppressed by the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the people from the East. This multitude of enemies would flock to Israel As numerous as…

  • A Perfect God, Imperfect People, and Perfect Plans

    Dr. Miriam Kinai
    26 Apr 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Buy A Perfect God, Imperfect People, and Perfect Plans from Amazon  A Perfect God, Imperfect People, and Perfect Plans is full of Biblical examples to show you that God has used and still uses “imperfect people ” to fulfill His perfect plans and perfect purposes for their lives if they are willing to obey Him. Book Excerpt  Has God been asking you to do something for Him yet you have been dismissing yourself because of your imperfections? Have you been wondering “Who am I that God should use me?” If so, understand that God uses imperfect and insignificant people to…
 
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  • 10 Best Podcasts from Twitter

    Jonathan Pearson
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    A few weeks ago, I threw out this question on twitter… What’s the one podcast you’d recommend to anyone? Here are the top 10 responses I got back (keep in mind, I haven’t listened to all of these and can’t endorse any of them)… 1. Boundless Show 2. EMS Leadership 3. Village Church 4. Straight Thinking 5. Wally Show 6. Andy Stanley Leadership 7. This is Your Life 8. Daily Shorts & Spirit of Adoption 9. Bethel Church 10. Perry Noble Leadership and my addition… 11. Conversations with Pete Wilson Your turn… What podcast would you recommend to…

  • How to Ensure That You’re Never Stretched or Challenged

    Jonathan Pearson
    14 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Want to live an easy life that involves sitting behind a desk or at home and doing absolutely nothing that makes any kind of real difference in the grand scheme of life or eternity? Here’s the secret… Do nothing and be around people that do nothing. It’s really that easy. If you don’t want to be stretched, don’t ever try anything new… You can have ideas, but never act on those ideas to try to make them a reality. Have dreams, but never share them with anyone else that might push you to shoot for them. Be around people that are just like you, not people that…

  • 10 Times to Get Blog Ideas

    Jonathan Pearson
    10 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    One of the common asked questions I hear goes something like… “How do you find enough stuff to blog about?” Well, it’s not always easy to recognize, but blog ideas are really all around us all the time. I think this is true of sermon ideas, creative ideas, and any ideas you need. They’re all around you. Here are some of the places I find things to blog about… News sites. – There’s always a crazy news story or something out there that has a hidden lesson or conversation topic in it. The key is finding the right ones that you can easily talk about. Quote…

  • 8 on 8′s – DOING GOOD

    Jonathan Pearson
    8 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    [See all the 8 word posts here.] 8 on 8′s – DOING GOOD is a post from: JonathanPearson.net

  • Vision Roadblocks

    Jonathan Pearson
    7 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    The above picture is from one side of the mall in my small city. It was built about 15 – 20 years ago with gusto and a huge vision. Someone had a vision for this area of land that was beyond what I’d venture to say most believed was possible. And so they acted on that vision. They took the initial step to see it through and built the mall in little Orangeburg, SC. As you can see from the picture, that vision has lost its steam. There’s a large department store location that sits empty, a parking lot that is usually void of cars, and storefronts inside that have gates over…
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    World Revival Network Blog

  • Three Reasons Why People Fail In Leadership

    15 May 2012 | 5:20 pm
    I've found that a lot of people want to have authority. Whether positioned to do so or not, they want to "call the shots;" controlling what's going on around them. Now, it's not necessarily wrong to desire power. God certainly wants righteous leadership to be expressed in the earth. So the problem is clearly not with authority itself.  What I've found is that few are willing to do what's necessary to gain legitimate power. We may start out with the best intentions but seem to get entangled along the way; thus abdicating our right to govern. Authority often emerges from places that few…

  • What Happens When Revival Comes?

    9 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    A lot of people seem to struggle with the various phenomena and other intense encounters that come with the entrance of revival. In many ways I understand this difficulty. As a culture, we are uncomfortable with strong emotions and intense physical expressions.Yet, in our perpetual societal hesitation, we seldom consider how people actually encountered God in the Bible. This may surprise you but their experiences were every bit as intense as those that are being experienced today.  For example, the glory of God literally overwhelmed the priests of Israel as they served in the…

  • Meaning and Momentum

    3 May 2012 | 11:12 pm
    As I was carefully reading through the second chapter of Acts the other day, I was struck by two seemingly simple questions.As I quietly reflected on them, I realized that they could be helpful for leading people in the Church.Let me elaborate a little.  Question #1 - "What Does This Mean?"Encountering the first pivotal question in Acts 2, I observed people asking, “What does this mean?” (Acts 2:12)This question arises because they're experiencing God for the first time and don't understand what's happening. They need things to be clarified and defined. This shows us that leaders are…

  • Don't Relinquish Your Inheritance

    26 Apr 2012 | 12:10 pm
    From the time I was young I’ve always heard about going to heaven. We sang and preached about it; reflecting on it every time we got together. In the years since then, not much has changed. We’re still talking an awful lot about escaping the earth.Now don't misunderstand me, heaven is certainly a wonderful promise, but I’m not sure that it’s God’s sole intent for believers to go somewhere else. I was reminded of this again the other day when I came across a passage from the Psalms which read: "The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the…

  • A Vain Sacrifice?

    9 Apr 2012 | 4:51 pm
    I still remember one of the first stories that struck me as I realized I needed to better engage the Bible. It was the account of an Englishman named William Tyndale.Throughout the history of the church, the regular public had very little access to the Bible. In the intervening years, Roman Catholic authorities required usage of the Latin Vulgate. Yet, by the Sixteenth Century the Vulgate was no longer understood by the general populace. So, unless one was trained to read Latin in a Catholic seminary, there was little hope of understanding Scripture.Frustrated with widespread ignorance…
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    The Dude Abides

  • Join GG for Girls Night Out in Irvine, California TONITE!

    tgf
    27 Apr 2012 | 12:35 pm
    7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012 Mariners Church, the Upper Room 5001 Newport Coast Dr. Irvine California 92603-0164 949.769.8100 For more information (it's only $5, cuz I'm a cheap date, apparently) please click HERE.

  • Soul Food

    tgf
    10 Mar 2012 | 8:40 am
    When Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis departed on his three-month sabbatical at the beginning of January, I sent him a list of books, films and music that I thought would nourish his mind and spirit in, perhaps, different ways than the media he normally consumes do. Jim’s sabbatical — a true Sabbath in the literal sense [...]

  • U2′s Joshua Tree: 25 Years in God’s Country

    tgf
    9 Mar 2012 | 9:06 pm
    Desert sky Dream beneath the desert sky The rivers run, but soon run dry We need new dreams tonight ~ from “In God’s Country” by U2 On March 9, 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree, its fifth studio album and one that would catapult the Irish rock quartet from popularity to international superstardom. Twenty-five years [...]

  • ‘Why I Hate Religion But Love YouTube’

    tgf
    9 Mar 2012 | 8:59 pm
    Early this year I visited the Episcopal parish outside Chicago where my family and I used to worship before we moved to California a few years ago. About a dozen 12-to-14-year-olds gathered in a classroom used for daycare during the rest of the week. They pulled out cushions and gathered in a circle on the [...]

  • Doing Nothing for Lent

    tgf
    9 Mar 2012 | 8:53 pm
    “We are surrounded by a way of life in which betterment is understood as expansion, as acquisition as fame. Everyone wants to get more – to be on top – no matter what it is the top of that’s admired. There’s nothing recent about the temptation. It’s the oldest sin in the book. The one [...]
 
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  • Christmas Excitement with Delta

    dave
    14 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    The Tieche Family’s Christmas Adventure on Delta We wisely purchased non-stop tickets from San Francisco to Detroit for our Christmas Vacation. We were scheduled to depart from SFO at 9:15 a.m. and scheduled to arrive in Detroit at around 5 p.m (2 p.m PST). Scheduled. Here’s how the day *actually* went.5:19 a.m. – Alarm clock goes off.5:24 a.m. – I finally get up. I lug myself to the kitchen, and lug the rest of the luggage to the front door. 6:12 a.m. – Dad Buchholz pulls up in our driveway 6:23 a.m. – Get the kids out of bed and into their car seats.

  • Tim Keller quotes

    dave
    9 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    This is Tim Keller. He is the Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. He is a noted author, a sought-after speaker, and a leading voice among evangelicals and in his denomination. He also had a younger brother who was gay and died of AIDS 14 years ago.Here are several quotes from him – mainly from his book The Reason for God – that have helped make sense of things for me, namely, how to not be a hate-mongering jerk, and yet, how to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus (and the Bible), and faithful with my words and deeds.Gay Marriage and the Christian Response…

  • Amazing Kaiser

    dave
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Unclear what is more amazing. The fact that both my kids’ names are on the Kaiser medicine board, or that Paul Rudd is our pharmacist.

  • Graphs about Teen Behavior

    dave
    26 Apr 2012 | 12:44 pm
    Recently, we took a series of surveys on our entire youth population to find out what their habits and backgrounds are regarding the Bible. Some interesting results. These will drive us to try to figure out how to remove as many barriers as we can to Biblical literacy for our youth, mainly because we believe to our core that the Bible changes people.How Often Do You Read Your Bible? How Difficult Is It For You To Read Your Bible? Was There a Bible In Your Home When You Were Growing Up? Did Your Parents Ever Read the Bible to You? Do You Own a Bible? Who Gave You Your Bible? Why Don’t…

  • My New Book

    dave
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:41 am
    I was honored to be chosen to be one of the 7 men who were chosen to write *all 365* (whew!) of the daily devotionals for this book. It’s good.SYNOPSIS: A softcover devotional book for everyday inspiration, with 365 daily readings created specifically for men. Using devotions from Livingstone, the group who produced the Life Application Study Bible, these daily devotions will open your eyes to everything God wants you to be as his son, and guide and encourage you for an entire year.You can buy it here or find out more about it here .
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    Virtual Religion

  • Religion is more dangerous than porn

    admin
    5 May 2012 | 7:02 am
                            By Hans Olav Arnesen Pornography might be bad for you in a number of ways, and is seen by many as an even more immoral form of entertainment than extreme violence on film, or degrading reality shows on television. Perhaps that has led a lot of people to think that there is some sort of justice, divine maybe, in the fact that people who surf websites containing pornographic material run a high risk of contracting computer viruses. Well, if there´s some sense of justice to the distribution of online viruses…

  • The Quran can be read on smartphones, according to a recent fatwa

    admin
    29 Mar 2012 | 6:12 am
      By Hans Olav Arnesen A recent fatwa states that it is permissible to read the holy Quran on your smartphone. At least within the United Arab Emirates, where the fatwa was issued, according to the National Post. That is good news for modern, wealthy and technology conscious Arabs. It is the Ifta centre of the Abu Dhabi General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments (Awqaf) that issued the fatwa, but it is not limited to smartphones. The fatwa claims it is also allowed to read the Quran on your PC, laptop or off the internet. It is not, however, allowed to hold a mobile phone in…

  • Gravestones and smartphones

    admin
    29 Feb 2012 | 4:08 am
    By Hans Olav Arnesen A Danish gravestone maker have come up with an idea of how to make their products come to live, so to say. That is they have found a way to create a link between the gravestone and the internet. Placing a QR-code, like the one on the top picture (that you can try to read if you like), allows family and friends to access video-clips, music or pictures connected to their dearly departed. The greatest problem might be for the family to decide what to choose. The owner of the Danish stonemasonry, Gitte Røntvedt, says this about their new offer: “We thought that this…

  • Angry Brides – a virtual attack on the Indian practice of dowry

    admin
    7 Feb 2012 | 2:32 pm
    By Hans Olav Arnesen A new Facebook-application has seen the light. Some might be familiar with the game “Angry Birds”. The Indian match-making company Shaadi.com have made their own version: “Angry Brides“. The game is meant as an attack on the still widespread practice of dowry in India. Dowry has been illegal in India since 1961, but according to Sriram Vadlamani in Tech Wire Asia: “It’s not a matter of whether a groom would ask or attract any dowry or not, but a matter of how much. Dowry depends on the profession the groom is in. The greater the salary,…

  • The Vatican is successful in Cyberspace – and proud of it

    admin
    30 Jan 2012 | 7:58 am
    By Hans Olav Arnesen  Every religious organization needs their own website in this day and age, and the Worlds single largest church is of course no exception. And everyone who runs a home-page, whether they are doing so to promote their faith or not, is concerned with the number of readers they attract. If your average blogger cares about the number of people who visits their little corner of Cyberspace, how much more shouldnt the Vatican care? After all the stakes are much higher. Maybe a well crafted website could guide their readers into the caring arms of the Catholic Church, to…
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    The Word Composed | Song Revelation 5

  • Psalm 51 (New Song) – The Word Composed

    The Word Composed | Write --> Sell = Give
    6 May 2012 | 10:18 pm
    Here is a new some for the album. It’s psalm 51 from The Message version.

  • Video contest. Song Revelation 5. Be the director! You could win!

    The Word Composed | Write --> Sell = Give
    30 Mar 2012 | 1:18 pm
    The Word Composed is looking for the next big video director to produce a video for our debut single “Revelation 5″! The winner of the competition will be listed as the director of the official video which will eventually be viewed world wide. So this is a huge opportunity! So how do you enter? The first step is to click the “Contact The Word Composed” at the top of this webpage. Then give me a brief description of who you are and what you do. I will then email you a mp3 version of the song and you can get working on the creation process. To enter the competition,…

  • The Word Composed teams up with Invisible Children! Kony 2012

    The Word Composed | Write --> Sell = Give
    12 Mar 2012 | 11:51 am
    We have raised $8.10 from song sales so far! We will be giving all current money raised and all March song sales to Invisible Children Kony 2012! After iTunes takes their fees, 70 cents is what’s left over to give for every song sold. We will be giving the full 70 cents for every song sold. Please help us spread the word by sharing this blog using the buttons at the bottom of this blog post. Click this link to purchase the song!

  • The One Hundred Dollar Bill

    The Word Composed | Write --> Sell = Give
    29 Jan 2012 | 9:22 pm
    The One Hundred Dollar Bill My daughter and I went to Walmart tonight to get some food. I was looking for sour cream and could not find it for the life of me. So I hovered around the yogurt isle when my daughter said “Dad look”. So I looked on the ground and there was a One Hundred Dollar Bill laying on the ground. So I quickly said “Well pick it up”. So she did. We were in a dilemma, I mean it’s a one hundred dollar bill and anyone in their right mind could say that it’s theirs. My daughter said “What are we gonna do dad? We should turn it in”.

  • The December funds have been received!

    The Word Composed | Write --> Sell = Give
    13 Jan 2012 | 11:57 am
    The Word Composed has raised $4.55 so far in song sales. Next month our trending reports for the New Year will be posted and I will see how much we have raised at that point. As of right now, the $4.55 will be saved in a donation fund until we see how much more funds are coming in. Please help spread the word in any way you can either by liking this post on Facebook, or posting the link to the iTunes store. Let’s bless others by sharing information about this fund raiser! Also feel free to use the PayPal donation button below to make a donation. Here’s the song “Revelation 5” And…
 
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    ATLAH Media Network

  • The Food Stamp Welfare Jet

    admin
    16 May 2012 | 1:43 pm
    Bishop T.D. Jakes’ private jet was purchased with food stamps and welfare money. Recorded on 14 May 2012. “ATLAH: THAT’S WHAT GOD SAID.” Anointed to establish families, churches and businesses, unlike any the world hath seen. Indeed the final product of the land, ATLAH, will boast of being the seat of the world’s banking, business, and education centers. Love us or hate us? Please Support Us http://bit.ly/wP2lQ1

  • God Will Forgive the Misguided Pastors

    admin
    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    Pastor James David Manning says God will forgive misguided Pastors if they repent for supporting Barack Hussein Obama who is a bisexual. Recorded on 14 May 2012. “ATLAH: THAT’S WHAT GOD SAID.” Anointed to establish families, churches and businesses, unlike any the world hath seen. Indeed the final product of the land, ATLAH, will boast of being the seat of the world’s banking, business, and education centers. Love us or hate us? Please Support Us http://bit.ly/wP2lQ1

  • 2012 Race and Religion Riot

    captfarr
    16 May 2012 | 12:26 pm
    http://atlah.org Dr. James David Manning says 2012 election will be a race and religion riot. Recorded on 10 May 2012. “ATLAH: THAT’S WHAT GOD SAID.” Anointed to establish families, churches and businesses, unlike any the world hath seen. Indeed the final product of the land, ATLAH, will boast of being the seat of the world’s banking, business, and education centers. Love us or hate us? Please Support Us http://bit.ly/wP2lQ1

  • Obama losing in the Polls: The Civil War before the Lost

    captfarr
    16 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
    http://atlah.org Recorded on 15 May 2012. “ATLAH: THAT’S WHAT GOD SAID.” Anointed to establish families, churches and businesses, unlike any the world hath seen. Indeed the final product of the land, ATLAH, will boast of being the seat of the world’s banking, business, and education centers. Love us or hate us? Please Support Us http://bit.ly/wP2lQ1

  • I’m Taking This to McDonalds

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 7:53 pm
    Dr. James David Manning says he is going to speak to McDonalds about doing a Breakfast Program for School Children just like the ATLAH Christian Church. Recorded on 14 May 2012. “ATLAH: THAT’S WHAT GOD SAID.” Anointed to establish families, churches and businesses, unlike any the world hath seen. Indeed the final product of the land, ATLAH, will boast of being the seat of the world’s banking, business, and education centers. Love us or hate us? Please Support Us http://bit.ly/wP2lQ1
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  • The Morning Buzz | May 16, 2012

    Amelia
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI’s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn’t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? Care to join me for a drink at the bottom of the sea? I hear the floor of the Baltic is lovely this time of year… An investigation from Columbia Law School alleges that Texas put an innocent man to death back in 2004. As of last September, a strong majority (67%) of Americans favored the death penalty for persons convicted of murder. Although black Americans typically oppose same-sex marriage, a new…

  • Students at Private Colleges and Universities Hold Highest Debt

    Amelia
    15 May 2012 | 11:07 am
    College may be an investment in the future. But it’s a pricey one – and not without risk. The vast majority (94%) of students who earn a bachelor’s degree borrow money (including loans from the federal government, private lenders, and relatives) to pay for their education, and for all borrowers, the average debt in 2011 was $23,300. A long, thorough article in the New York Times explores some of the more extreme reaches of student debt, telling the stories of students who took on debt that they will be paying off for decades. Add to that a shaky job market, where only half of recent…

  • The Morning Buzz | May 15, 2012

    Amelia
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI’s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn’t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? Would Thomas Jefferson have said that Aaron Burr “got out a little bit over his skis” when he shot Alexander Hamilton (who was not Jefferson’s favorite person either)? Sadly, we’ll never know. Yesterday, President Obama told the graduating class of Barnard College that it was up to them, as young women, to “to stand up and be heard, to write, to lobby, to march, to organize, to…

  • The Morning Buzz | May 14, 2012

    Amelia
    14 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI’s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn’t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? This is a particularly creative excuse if you need to lie to customs about why you have a large number of live reptiles in your luggage, but you do have to be willing to follow through. Lawmakers in Kansas passed what is known in the state as the “Shari’a bill,” a law that prohibits judges from using non-U.S. laws (like Islamic Shari’a, Jewish halacha, or Catholic canon law) in making…

  • The Morning Buzz | May 11, 2012

    Amelia
    11 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI’s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn’t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? Why yes, I would like to live on a floating island utopia parked off the coast of San Francisco, free from all government oversight. Even pirates can’t ruin that dream. A new survey reveals that both Obama and Romney are out of step with voters on defense spending. After respondents were told about size of the budget, and shown expert arguments for and against spending cuts, two-thirds of Republicans and…
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    Guarding the Heart Blog

  • A Letter From the Young Leaders – Power Nuggets

    SM
    14 May 2012 | 1:53 pm
    #GTH BlogTo all who are listening. I understand that it’s sometimes scary to invest and trust in us young leaders. We can be overtly passionate, pumped up with adrenaline, crazily bold, act often without pondering, occasionally making dramatic mistakes and daringly persistent! What alternative would you like us to take to failure? Is it better to do nothing? Failures that don’t kill us make us stronger. It shows us one more way that we should avoid. Life lessons are learned here.  And this might be the very reason why the devil hates a young leader. Adding to the fear is the fact…

  • My Greatest Testimony Ever!

    SM
    12 May 2012 | 8:18 am
    #GTH BlogIt is interesting how what may be a big testimony to someone may not be that big a testimony to someone else. For most of us, brushing our teeth may not be such a big thing, but just think of someone who had a stroke. The fact that today, he can brush his teeth by himself will be a great testimony for him. Here on this blog, I want to give that opportunity to you. What is the greatest testimony ever in your life? In less than 150 words, can you share what Jesus did for you? I believe that it will bless someone on this blog! (Please keep it less than 150 words so that people can…

  • Help us choose a colour for SMMinistries logo

    Shyju Mathew
    9 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    #GTH BlogIts been quite some time we’ve worked on our present logo on www.shyjumathew.com Could you help us choose one logo of your choice that is most appealing to you? Thanks a lot, Shy 1. Green 2. Olive Green   3. Blue   Vote: Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Thanks for your vote, this will help the board make a decision. Also please let us know why you voted for that colour in the comments below. You just finished reading Help us choose a colour for SMMinistries logo! Consider leaving a…

  • The Only Survivor on the Island of Vanity

    SM
    9 May 2012 | 1:58 pm
    #GTH BlogGone are the days when television had a total of 10 channels, out of which just 7 worked. Millions of websites and billions of links created, carved exist today just to entice you. You are the hero, the centre of ATTENTION. From salesmen to sidebar advertisements to research labs, they all are striving to get your attention throughout the day. All they want is that first glance and then they get your attention. They are like leeches coming at you. They come in different forms and shapes and sizes. They come crawling out of huge billboards and your television screens. Everyday through…

  • Is Imitation Wrong in the Church? – Power Nuggets

    SM
    7 May 2012 | 2:09 pm
    #GTH BlogVery often I will have someone telling me not to imitate somebody else. Especially because of my admiration toward certain men of God. Then recently I heard someone tell another young man the same thing. And I pondered on that quite a bit. How about Paul urging us to imitate him? 1 Corinthians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Philippians 3:17 Could that be only his faith or would it include his passion, prayer, writing and preaching? Or for that matter, would Jesus have said, go find your own styles and don’t mimic Me? If only Jesus was to be imitated, we haven’t literally seen Him pray…
 
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    THE RUNNING REVEREND

  • We've had a good run... It's not me... It's you...

    20 Apr 2012 | 7:52 pm
    All good things must come to an end. Posterous and I have had a good run. After some careful thought and much discussion, I have decided to migrate this blog over to JoshuaRhone.com.  The reasons for the move are many. What you need to know, however, is that I've moved. This is where I will now be blogging. And it is the feed from JoshuaRhone.com that you will want to bookmark so that you can stay tuned into the great content that is generated. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Bo Sanders offers a fantastic (and thought-provoking) post on "Post-Contextuality"

    2 Apr 2012 | 9:36 pm
    Earlier today, I stumbled across a post by Bo Sanders, over at the Homebrewed Christianity blog, entitled “Post-Contextuality.” What follows is a snippet of what he wrote on the subject: Yet, never in the Bible do you see anyone intentionally learning another language in order to present the gospel. In the Bible, God repeatedly used dual-citizens and bi-lingual folks to get the message out. In the book of Acts we see three examples: a miraculous bridging of the language barrier at Pentecost the Ethiopian eunuch was a bi-lingual traveler who took something back to his ‘home’ in…

  • Stop Throwing Starfish Back! When making a difference to the one isn't good enough.

    30 Mar 2012 | 9:02 am
      Motivational speakers love the starfish story: A man walking along a shore covered with washed-up, dying starfish notices a boy throwing them back into the ocean, one by one. The man says to the boy that there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish, and that he’ll never make a difference. As the boy throws a starfish back into the ocean, he says, “I just made a difference to that one.” This story epitomizes the mindset of our social entrepreneur movement—the lone hero making a difference in the life of one person by not falling into the paralysis…

  • Re-Imaging Pastoral Ministry: Where relationships go to die

    29 Mar 2012 | 9:21 pm
    Pastoral ministry is where relationships go to die.  Your friends who aren't in ministry often don't understand ministry and the demands that are put not only on the pastor but upon the pastoral family. Only so many meals can be cancelled, postponed, or left early before the invitations to get together become fewer and eventually disappear. Colleagues in ministry, while sympathetic to and knowledgeable regarding the various demands of ministry, tend not to make the best friends either. Issues of time and schedule aside, friendships amongst colleagues in ministry prove difficult for a…

  • Re-Imaginging Pastoral Ministry: Let's Get Naked

    26 Mar 2012 | 7:07 pm
    Exposing the Hazards of Ministry for All to See If you are a pastor (are on a church board or attend a church in which there is a pastor), here's some food for thought: 80% of pastors believe that pastoral ministry affects their families negatively. 30% of pastors say that being in ministry is an outright hazard to their family. 75% of pastors report they’ve had a significant stress-related crisis once in their ministry. 50% feel unable to meet the needs of the job. 90% feel they’re inadequately trained to cope with ministry demands. 25% of pastoral spouses see their…
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  • TB Joshua prophesied French election results

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    8 May 2012 | 8:33 am
    Nigerian prophet TB Joshua  on Sunday, May 6, 2012, during the Sunday Live Nicolas Sarkozy 1st Service at The SCOAN, broadcast live on Emmanuel TV, a message of prophecy about something new happening in a French speaking country, saying that he saw a new person there. TB Joshua also mentioned the numbers two and three, emphasizing the number three. Just a few hours later, Just hours later, exit polls in France reveal that French President has lost to Socialist Leader Hollande with an approximate three point lead over Nicolas Sarkozy. See the video which was shot Sunday morning before the…

  • TB Joshua Prophesies First Half of UEFA Champions League Final

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    8 May 2012 | 8:17 am
    T.B Joshua has finally broken his silence on the Champions league final. Allianz Arena in Munich, Germeny,where the finals would be played on the 19th May Prophet T. B. Joshua, the world renowned Man of God, believes Chelsea Football Club need more prayers if they are to break through in the final. He stated that He NEVER prophesied that Chelsea would win. Hear Him: “I never said anything about the match. I never did”. He then asked his congregation if they ever heard him predict the game. The congregation then answered, NO in unison. He continued, “Please, you people should…

  • Former Administrator of The Ghana Pentecostal Council John Nana Antoh Speaks on TB Joshua

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    26 Apr 2012 | 7:44 am
    Culled from 2nd edition of Faith Cometh, Former administrator of the Ghana Pentecostal council, John Nana Antoh testifies of the mighty works the lord is using TB Joshua to do in our present dispensation. Senior Pastor, Bible School founder and a former administrator of the Ghana Pentecostal Council, Rev. John Nana Antoh, shares with Faith Cometh how his spiritual life took a dramatic turn as a direct result of his encounter with someone who didn’t just preach the Bible, but made it work. FC: Can you introduce yourself to us? Rev. Antoh: My name is Reverend John Nana Antoh, am a professor…

  • The Man TB Joshua – Hated and Crazily Loved

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    12 Apr 2012 | 6:00 pm
    If there is one name in Africa that sparks more controversy, heightens emotion both of ardour and anger or breaks up a conversation more than TB Jos hua, then tell me. Some express intense hatred towards him, so much so, that you would think he had personally inflicted all their woes andsorrows. On the contrary, others talk with such rapture about him that you would think they couldn’t live without him. Who is this man that is constantly causing a stir, a rift in the breach, rippling the stillwaters? Who is this man who has become a topic of conversation from the mouths of the most…

  • THE MAN TB JOSHUA and his Prophetic eyes that cover the Globe

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    9 Apr 2012 | 10:21 am
    As the most recent prophecy of TB Joshua on the death of an African leader reached fulfillment last week Thursday, with the demise of President Bingu wa Mutharika, many news outlets and blogs on the internet are heralding  the prophetic prowess of TB Joshua, practically singing his praise on nearly every outlet carrying the story, as is expected, this got the Pharisee authors behind TB Joshua watch (a SCOAN critic wordpress.com site) visibly furious and they annoyingly proceeded to make a press release with which they classified the prophecy as either a product of the mathematical…
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  • South Korea Sends North Korea Bibles Via Balloons.

    Duke
    14 May 2012 | 10:24 pm
    South Korea Sends North Korea Bibles Via Balloons.I ran across this great story tonight about how South Korean Christians are sending Bibles to North Korea by Balloon. I had to just smile when I read the story because if there is a will then there is a way. I guess it has been going on for some time now but there is [...]Taber's Truths Christian News and Commentary

  • Hours After Obama’s Gay Marriage Announcement Black Pastors Are Asked For Support

    Duke
    14 May 2012 | 9:39 pm
    Hours After Obama’s Gay Marriage Announcement Black Pastors Are Asked For SupportI pondered how to even to approach this news story I found in The New York Times. I honestly do not see this issue as a black vs. white issue or even racial in it’s context but I know that as a white pastor what I am about to share with you could be twisted [...]Taber's Truths Christian News and Commentary

  • Romney Courts Evangelicals But Avoids Controversial Mormon Doctrines

    Duke
    14 May 2012 | 1:25 am
    Romney Courts Evangelicals But Avoids Controversial Mormon DoctrinesMitt Romney spoke at Liberty University’s commencement ceremony even though many Liberty University students protested the invitation. A report from Reuters states that he tried to convince Evangelicals that Mormons and Evangelicals share a common goal and worldview. He then went on to hit this weeks hot button concerning President Obama’s coming out concerning gay [...]Taber's Truths Christian News and Commentary

  • Returning To Your First Love

    Duke
    12 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Returning To Your First LoveThe American church is facing a crisis. This may not be a crisis that is exclusively American but since I am in America and it is where my observations come from, I can only say that this definitively effects us. The crisis is this. We are faced with whether or not we are going to follow [...]Taber's Truths Christian News and Commentary

  • Differences in Bible Translations sheds light on Psalms 23

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    12 May 2012 | 9:43 am
    Differences in Bible Translations sheds light on Psalms 23The Word of God is not as transparent as one would think.  To add to the the varying doctrines and interpretations, we also must deal with different languages, and also eras in which Bible translations came about.  Which is the “best” or the most “correct” translation?  Scholars and christians have been vexed by that question for [...]Taber's Truths Christian News and Commentary
 
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