52 days ago by Pastor Bob Cornwall

Transforming Theology Project Harvey Cox, Future of Faith, Harper One, 2009 Chapter 8: No Lunch with the Prefect: How to Fix the Papacy It is intriguing that non-Catholics find the papacy intriguing. Indeed, it’s even more intriguing to see someone who has strong anti-clerical, anti-hierarchical, an ...

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100 days ago by Kevin Beck

I'd like to elaborate on my post from a few days ago about Hans Kung and Religious Authoritarianism. It's interesting to me that the word "Protestant" has almost disappeared in religion talk these days. But if you identify as a Christian in western society, and you are not Catholic or Orthodox, aren ...

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108 days ago by michaeldebusk

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8 Peter begins his second letter candidly: his death would soon leave a vacuum of authority in the fragile church communities that depended on him. The letter, brimming with exhortations, opens with a word int ...

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138 days ago by Self Confidence

A number of years ago, when I still worked as a balanit in the Mikvah (attendent at the ritual bath) in our yishuv, the Moetza Datit (religious authority) organized a few days of continuing education. One of the lecturers at this two day event was Dr. Shulamit Lehman, a social worker who works for Y ...

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138 days ago by Talk to Your Spouse

A number of years ago, when I still worked as a balanit in the Mikvah (attendent at the ritual bath) in our yishuv, the Moetza Datit (religious authority) organized a few days of continuing education. One of the lecturers at this two day event was Dr. Shulamit Lehman, a social worker who works for Y ...

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156 days ago by Erin Manning

Don't know if anyone's been following the trial of evangelist Tony Alamo; truly stomach churning stuff there: Alamo, 74, is accused of taking five girls across state lines for sex between 1994 and 2005. The woman did not testify about...

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156 days ago by Rod Dreher

Here's an important blog post by Steve Skojec, a Catholic friend of this blog who posts from time to time, about what he learned from his traumatizing time in the Legionaries of Christ. It's about how personal autonomy yielded to...

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186 days ago by Bobbie

When we were children, we needed to grow and learn the ABC’s. Now that we are adults, we need to change and relearn the BAC’s… Be A Child. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:11, When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. Jesus said in Matthew 11:25, “I pra ...

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193 days ago by Jesse O. Kurtz

There is a statue of the Blessed Mother which sits adjacent Our Lady Star of the Sea Church. The statue, like many items of religious devotion, had been neglected over the years. Christina Thomasello began to take an interest in the Marian shrine, as thanksgiving to Mary for the Blessed Mother’s int ...

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221 days ago by admin

Marriage is a social, religious, spiritual or legal union of individuals that creates kinship. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock. Marriage is an institution in wh ...

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