“Remember, at the time the Good Book was written, I was running around saving souls like a madman,” Christ said. “I couldn’t focus on a writing project, too. I basically gave My team of writers the broad strokes and hoped inspiration would fill in the cracks.”
“We can no longer take it for granted that we will have a last resting place in or near our community. The majority of our churchyards will soon be full and we do not have the resources to extend them or open new ones.”
What do you actually want people to do when they visit your site? And the clincher is that you need this question to drive how you design and think about your site. That sounds like a ‘duh’ statement, but there are so many sites out there (churches and non-churches) where there’s no clear call to action.
“By abolishing the death penalty, we in Connecticut have an opportunity to affirm and respect our dignity as a society,” Bishop James Curry of Connecticut
When Jesus said we should turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:38-42 and Luke 6:27-31), he was not asking followers to become door mats. Rather, in the face of violence, Jesus directed us to “break the cycle.”
House churches . . . are considered to emulate the earliest Christian community, and more recently are growing in popularity as a way to reach out to the unchurched.
How does living in a virtual world influence living in both the physical and the spiritual ones? How do we maintain the body of Christ when the physical bodies we see and touch in church expand to include the virtual bodies we inhabit online? What place does prayer have in our instantaneous, Tech-driven world?
The Episcopal Church began evangelical work among the Chinese in the Diocese of California in the mid 1850’s. It began to bear fruit by the turn of the century when Deaconess Emma Drant came to San Francisco and organized a Chinese worshiping group in 1905 and established True Sunshine,