[Atheists’] arguments are fatally undermined by their own unacknowledged dogmas and doctrines, … and they completely fail to understand Christian faith (or any other kind) except in its stupidest and most literal-minded form.
The fight over gay marriage may be far from over, but already some conservative Christian leaders are looking beyond the courtroom dramas and the legislative infighting. The trouble they see is not just an America where general support for gay marriage will have driven a wedge between churches and the world, but between churches themselves.
…we commend anew to this Church those things that are its own as broadly outlined in the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, being reformed and catholic signs we do share as pointing us to and bearing us forth to the truth of and knowledge of and relationship with the Persons of the Living God, and in Them, turned to one another, general society, and the whole of creation
Former bishop of Pennsylvania, Charles Bennison has asked for a new trial based on previously undisclosed “love letters” between his brother and the victim of
A lot of the switching is intra-Protestant switching, and I think at this point that’s not even switching — hardly anyone knows the difference between a Lutheran and an Episcopalian, or even a Methodist and a Baptist. We live in a postdenominational time.
It’s Jesus alive and with us that makes us Christian. The ‘how’ of the mystery of resurrection matters because it points toward Jesus and also makes us talk as well as we can, as much as we understand about bodies and selves, the incarnational demand of finding words to preach Jesus’ ‘resurrection from the dead’ and the promise of our own resurrection.
Today there are many voices enticing people into the ways of death. As in the days of Christ, they speak in tones of prudence, expedience and self-protection. We are caught in the gravitational pull towards death. To stand on the side of life calls for the risks and initiatives of a different policy.