“The spiritual health of the leader in the congregation is key,” says the Reverend Jay Sidebotham. “Too often clergy lose touch with their first love, with the reasons that they were drawn to ordained ministry. These challenges can have a negative effect on a church’s vitality.”
While Republicans and Democrats have similarly restrictive views on immigration from predominantly Christian (15 percent vs. 12 percent, respectively) and European (20 percent vs. 13 percent) countries, they have markedly different views when it comes to other regions.
Written in encrypted ancient Hebrew, one of the last unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls has finally been deciphered by a University of Haifa post-doctoral researcher
The Episcopal Church has released the schedule of events and activities for General Convention 79, taking place in July 2018 in Austin, Texas.
“We have voices, and we are a community of faith. We have spiritual strength.”
Open Doors reports that Christian oppression globally is intensifying at an alarming rate.
Mudslides in southern California have killed at least 13 as storms hit soil left bare by last year’s wildfires. Montecito has been particularly hard hit.
“Which stories will define us? The horror? Or the response? The darkness, or the light?”
From the Washington Post: “A woman who married God, a chess-playing priest and 10 more fascinating religious figures who died in 2017.”
This self-emptying, helpless, stable born baby who is God has brought and continues to bring more freedom than all earth’s most powerful leaders. The nature of those who have power is to seek to hold onto it. In 2017 we have seen around the world tyrannical leaders that enslave their peoples, populist leaders that deceive them, corrupt leaders that rob them, even simply democratic, well intentioned leaders of many parties and countries who are normal, fallible human beings. We have experienced across our country terrorism that kills the innocent, claiming that it is the path to freedom in God.
The nature of God who has all power, and from whom all power comes, is to lay it aside for love’s sake and thus without fear, force or manipulation to offer true freedom for every human being. God is showing all truth in its completest form, all love in its purest aspect, the true light of freedom all wrapped up in the baby in Bethlehem.