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Lavabo anyone?

August 8, 2007 No Comments

“Though some explain it away as a utilitarian action to cleanse the hands before touching ‘thy creatures of bread and wine,’ which will in turn be consumed by priest and people, the weight of church tradition says that this is a moment of spiritual cleansing as the priest assumes the weighty responsibility of bearing the assembly’s prayers and oblations. In other words, the Lavabo isn’t about germiness.” Those are the words of Anglicans Online. But that was before Purell.

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Evangelicals see abstraction in Bible

August 8, 2007 No Comments

“The very parched nature of evangelical visual culture is making people who have grown up in this culture thirsty for beauty,” says Andy Crouch, editorial director for Christianity Today’s Christian Vision Project.

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Church dropouts

August 8, 2007 No Comments

USA Today reports,”Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 — both evangelical and mainline — who went to church regularly in high school said they quit attending by age 23, according to the survey by LifeWay Research.”

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Virginia property cases in court on Friday

August 8, 2007 1 Comment

“On Friday, August 10, The Diocese of Virginia and The Episcopal Church will appear in Fairfax Circuit Court to defend our claim to Episcopal Church property against non-Episcopal groups that are trying to appropriate our churches for their own uses. Later, in November, the court will hear arguments on the lawsuits, styled as petitions, filed by the Nigerian congregations that started this dispute. The Diocese and The Episcopal Church are named as defendants in that action.”

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The new face of evangelicals

August 8, 2007 2 Comments

Mark I. Pinsky writing in USA Today, “This is more than what Freud called “the narcissism of small differences.” The emerging face and voice of American evangelicalism is that of a pragmatic, politically sophisticated, pastor of a middle class megachurch.”

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Crumbly bread and open communion

August 7, 2007 1 Comment

One reason seminary chapels are traditionally “ecclesiastical peculiars” is so that they will have the freedom to push the edges of liturgical practice in the direction of the church’s emerging theology.

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Ethical conversion and freedom of religion

August 7, 2007 No Comments

Some 30 Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Pentecostal and Evangelical theologians and church representatives meet to articulate what a common code of conduct on religious conversion should look like from a Christian viewpoint

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82 Lutheran gay and lesbian clergy come out

August 7, 2007 2 Comments

Dozens of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered Lutheran clergy and seminarians on Tuesday openly proclaimed their sexuality to church members meeting at Navy Pier for a national assembly. A devotional booklet titled, “A Place Within My Walls, is being handed out to the more than 1,000 voting members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a 4.8 million-member denomination headquartered in Chicago.

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Silent racism

August 7, 2007 No Comments

Barbara Trepagnier, author of Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide, says that people should replace the question of whether or not they are racist with asking themselves how they are racist.

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