Tune up your church’s web presence before Christmas Eve
“Go to a coffee shop, laptop in tow, and buy coffee for a stranger who is willing to poke around your website.”
“Go to a coffee shop, laptop in tow, and buy coffee for a stranger who is willing to poke around your website.”
“Let’s drop the vacuous accusations of activism and instead argue about the right answers to constitutional questions.”
Is it wrong to be simultaneously devotional and hungry?
Suppose it had to happen in America at some point, and we’d be a little surprised if it hasn’t already, but one jeweler has found an eschatological marketing niche.
The problem, it would seem, is not so much homosexuality as it is the influence of the West – the perception of culture wars, in effect.
This fine little video on YouTube, “Reasons (why people don’t come to church)” is a must watch!
“We’ve become detached from nature,” Maathai told me recently during a trip to New York City. “And as you move away from nature, you become lost.”
Part of the community whose voice needs to be considered, is that of the Tradition – that is, what has been said over the years about any given passage of scripture. We, in the present time, are not the only ones who have struggled with these passages, and our own understanding needs to be informed by the larger community of the faithful in the past.
. . . the idea of a special, even divine, role for America can be fairly slippery. At its best, it has inspired Americans to hold themselves to a high moral standard, serving as exemplar to other nations. At its worst, it becomes a license for rationalizing away morality itself.
MP David Bahati, the mover of Uganda’s kill-the-gays bill currently under consideration, continues planning to attend a meeting of The International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management slated for this week, despite having had his invitation withdrawn, Box Turtle Bulletin reports.