Day: September 7, 2020

Religion in America Roundup 9/7/2020

Priest says unrepentant Catholics who vote Democratic go to hell; bishop agrees.

Pastor defiant about holding services during pandemic despite wedding that killed three persons who did not attend.

An Episcopal Church closes.

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Who Was Elihu: Arrogance or Authority?

“Do we not now live out Job’s life? The national situation is horrendous. What started out as a cry for the end to systemic racism is rapidly turning into a race war, and dozens of identity wars. We need to pray that our mouths be filled with the Spirit so that we can proclaim, not in arrogance, but with authority, God’s Truth. But right now we feel like Job. But we are also Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, insisting on our own wisdom in our ignorance, and, in doing so, distracting from the only true Wisdom, that of God. We need to make our confession, but not a breast-beating act of showmanship, but humble in the wonder and grace of God. As did Job.”

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