EfM Online groups and keeps the blog
Perhaps what makes this movie intriguing–this whole concept of “possession by an evil spirit”–is that, ultimately, we recognize that each of us has our own dibbuk box inside of us, as well as our own Ark of the Covenant.
Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258 1 Peter 5:1-4, 10-11 Psalm 23 John 10:11-16 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and
by Deirdre Good Reposted with edits: Academic conferences are not usually electrifying. But on Tuesday September 18th at 7pm, at the “Gnosticism and Manichaeism,” announced
I have read with great interest the recent post about
What if, as a corrective to generations of preaching aimed at our selfishness and self-absorption, we spent a little time as a church trying to figure out how we can best determine what God expects from us in the ways of self-sacrifice, with some particular attention to the ways in which our willingness to sacrifice is used against us, and the ways in which people who have power assign crosses to those who do not.
So the essential question is not do we need a structure but does this structure express and embody God’s spirit? The straight answer to that, the reviewers have said is, that it does not, and to be honest no structure ever will fully embody it because we are fallible human beings who always fall short of what God requires of us.
If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed were to bump into each other along the road and go have a cup of tea or whatever, I think we all know they would treat one another far different and far better than a lot of their followers would
“It’s a really wonderful and exciting way to be able to praise God with the talents he’s given all of us,” said Libby Federici, 15, a member of the Children’s Choir at Erie’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul.
Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 8, 84 (Evening) Job 38:1, 18-41 Revelation 8:1-8 Matthew 5:21-26 Psalm 8 (The St. Helena Psalter:) O God, our Governor,*