“I do not think going off in a little partisan group with all of your exact, like-minded friends and proclaiming yourself right and everyone else wrong, or yourself saved and everyone else damned, is particularly courageous.”
The divisive nature of the public-breastfeeding debate moves into the safety of the sanctuary.
Whether you’ve become one of its acolytes, a mere watcher, or someone who’s not been interested, the idea of a television show willing to think theologically for itself still has intrinsic appeal.
After several weeks of feed issues persisting in Facebook, we’re starting to see it work again. Twitter has been working fine all along, so with that in mind, here’s what’s been happening in our social media spaces lately.
Now that things have been tidied up at Long Beach Arena, let the pontificating begin.
What does it mean to be cool and what does it mean to be Christian. Are these competing aims? Why is the church today so preoccupied with being cool, fashionable, trendy, and relevant? Where does this phenomenon fit in to the larger narrative of “hip” and “Christian cool”?
May 13 commemorates Francis Perkins, who was instrumental in the creation of Social Security. Did you ever ponder the spiritual and theological roots of Social Security?
What is the best and most effective approach to take?
One of the mainsprings of Christian self-understanding in the formative years of the Church’s life was the idea that the believer was essentially a ‘migrant’, someone who was in any and every situation poised between being at home and being a stranger.
“We will accomplish a lot more by being here, learning, hearing and responding about it and standing in solidarity with people suffering instead of taking the easy way out by saying let’s go meet someplace else,” said Arizona Bishop Kirk Smith.