Summary Who We Are We are a community that loves God and loves others, and we seek to live life as God has directed. We are far from perfect, but we are forgiven. Together we gather around God’s gifts of word and sacrament to be reminded of His love, to be assured of His grace [...]
Listen to the story… by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY npr.com February 7, 2012 The video is spare. A young man dressed in leather jacket and jeans looks into the camera. Then, 22-year-old Jefferson Bethke, a churchgoing Christian and rap artist, voices what much of his generation is thinking. “What if I told you Jesus came to [...]
By Sharon L. Peters, Special for USA TODAY “Church can have a tendency to feel rigid and frigid to people,” he says. That dissolves when he walks into Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas, with his mutt pack trailing behind his robes. The dogs sometimes veer off from the processional to prowl the [...]
Uploaded by bball1989 on Jan 10, 2012 A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it’s core Jesus’ gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, [...]
AlterNet / By Rob Boston To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry Falwell in powdered wigs and stockings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike many of today’s candidates, the founders didn’t find it necessary to constantly wear religion [...]
Trymaine Lee huffingtonpost.com The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the super-conservative African American Republican who has campaigned vigorously against Kwanzaa (“The Racist Holiday From Hell” he has called it), the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. and President Barack Obama, said he has a simple solution to black America’s employment woes: hard labor. “One of the things that I would [...]
Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Religion and Chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University (Note: I came across the article for the first time on the website of the Church of God In Christ) The Black Church, as we’ve known it or imagined it, is dead. Of course, many African [...]
by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY January 8, 2012 npr.com Americans’ religious liberties are under attack — or at least that’s what some conservatives say. Newt Gingrich warns the U.S. is becoming a secular country, which would be a “nightmare.” Rick Santorum says there’s a clash between “man’s laws and God’s laws.” And in a campaign ad, [...]
Editor’s note: John Shelby Spong, a former Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey, is author of “Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World.” By John Shelby Spong, Special to CNN The Bible is both a reservoir of spiritual insight and a cultural icon to which lip service is still paid in the Western world. Yet when the [...]
Listen to the story… by NPR STAFF December 24, 2011 The New Testament is constantly being re-interpreted from a variety of perspectives. From feminists, to socialists, to traditionalists; there’s even a version as seen through the prism of Star Wars. Well now, you can add to the collection The Jewish Annotated New Testament by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc [...]
Webmaster: The interviewer here is Briana McCarthy my niece. Uploaded by Nluvwgod on Dec 28, 2011 An interview with Pastor Corey Brooks of Nu Beginnings Church of Chicago. In order to bring attention to the violence, Brooks has camped out on the roof of an abandoned motel. Brooks will not come down until he raises the money to [...]
Webmaster: The speaker here is my nephew, Bruce Colar. Uploaded by ServanthoodTV on Dec 27, 2011 Elder Bruce Colar premieres the first installment of Servanthood TV, based in Chicago. In keeping with the Christmas spirit the lesson today is coming from Luke 1 46:55 entitled, According to the Promise. Join Servanthood Bible Fellowship weekly for teachings on various topics such [...]
Listen to the story… by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY December 16, 2011 npr.com Writer Christopher Hitchens, who died on Thursday from complications of cancer at the age of 62, leaves behind some 18 books and countless essays on politics and public figures. But his most lasting legacy may be his atheism and his long-running duel with [...]
Editor’s note: Larry Alex Taunton is the founder and executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation. This article is adapted from his book “The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief.” By Larry Alex Taunton, Special to CNN (CNN)– I first met Christopher Hitchens at the Edinburgh International Festival. We were both [...]
Robert Orlando HUFFINGTONPOST.COM The Apostle Paul was, for much of his life, and abject failure who never knew the success of his Christianizing mission. From his letters, written 50-60 A.D., we know that most of his relationships deteriorated in the midst of his overbearing personality, Jesus’ original 12 disciples could hardly tolerate the man, he [...]
CNN Newsroom|Added on December 10, 2011 CNN’s Don Lemon talks with Bishop T.D. Jakes about the economy, politics and the Bishop Eddie Long scandal.
(AP) LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – A tiny all-white church in the rural South has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, pitting members against each other in an argument over race. Members at the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Kentucky voted Sunday on the resolution, which says the church “does not condone interracial [...]
Trymaine Lee huffingtonpost.com The Secret Service agents arrived at Shiloh Baptist Church on a reconnaissance mission just a few days before Easter Sunday. They swept through the sanctuary, eyeing every pew from the pulpit to the balcony. Not a Bible or hymnal was left unturned. Church leaders took a vow of secrecy. Even the most [...]
Most American Catholics support abortion rights By TIM PADGETT | November 17, 2011 time.com Now that voters in Mississippi have rejected the so-called personhood agenda — the radical anti-abortion effort to make the moment of conception the legal beginning of human life — the movement says it plans to take its referendum to a number [...]
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