Come out!
April 13, 2011
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Lazarus, Come out!
It is the voice of the Lord, the proclamation of the king—an authoritative command.
Come out!
Leave corruption behind and receive the flesh of incorruption.
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Author: Jim Naughton
A casserole ministry is about more than casseroles
April 12, 2011
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For seven weeks, I had people showing up on my doorstep most evenings bearing food. Some were good friends, but many of the church volunteers were people I had never formally met. A friend asked me if it felt weird to have people, especially near-strangers, feeding my family. Yes, it did. Particularly since I didn’t look or feel terribly sick. It took some getting used to. But it turned out to be really welcome.
Conversion through understanding
April 12, 2011
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Very early in Mr. Judson’s residence in Burmah, he became convinced that the press must be one of the chief instruments of its regeneration. He found its inhabitants a reading people, beyond any other in India; of a remarkably inquisitive, speculative turn of mind; not disposed to admit any new doctrine without a full apprehension of the why and wherefore;
Planning a celebration
April 11, 2011
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The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have chosen Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ont., to celebrate a decade of “full communion” between the two denominations. The presiding bishops of the denominations will be in the area May 1 to celebrate “Called to Common Mission.”
Repenting the sin of racism
April 11, 2011
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Human beings are capable of the most wretched behavior – as the old confession put it, there is no health in us. Yet through human prophets God continues to call us to turn in a new direction, toward healing, wholeness, and holiness of life. In the wider world, we call that justice. Some have said that justice is simply love in public action.
To refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain
April 11, 2011
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The recently concluded, but soon to be renewed, budget negotiations in Washington have left me feeling that our nation’s leaders are spiritually bankrupt. We are balancing the budget of our wealthy nation by deciding just how much suffering the poor must endure on behalf of the rich. This is the Gospel in reverse.
No country for the poor
April 11, 2011
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Some people look at income inequality and shrug their shoulders. What matters, they argue, is not how the pie is divided but the size of the pie. That argument is fundamentally wrong. An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy like America’s—is not likely to do well over the long haul.
The myth of a faith-based social safety net
April 11, 2011
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National and local studies make clear that congregations occupy an important but limited place in community social welfare systems. These studies also make clear that, far from constituting an alternative to that system, congregations’ social service activity depends on it.
Preaching peace
April 11, 2011
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When the events at the Wairau, and the Land Question in general, had made a breach between the two races; then doors began to be shut in the faces of the natives, and language peculiarly offensive to them was in common use among the lower classes: and it became a frequent remark among them, which I have heard again and again, that, with the exception of the Government officers,
In a pluralistic society, mutual respect is a moral imperative
April 10, 2011
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As a person with dual loyalties to God and country, loyalties that sometimes but not always conflict, the two Florida pastors burning of the Koran and the violent rioting by Afghan Muslims in response left me both upset and concerned about the future of a civilized global community.
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