Faith (AnalysisBelief and doubt (Religious aspectsGod (KnowablenessThe book 'Why Christianity Must Change or Die,' written by Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong, offers honest non-traditional religious thoughts to which modern-day Christians may find their own confusions echoed. Preachers have made ...
we believe the usage of the phrase “covenant of works” is open to misinterpretation by modern Christians. By way of clarification, we deny that any covenant can be kept without faith, and we affirm that good works flow out of faith in God, and not vice versa...
I write a lot about where our hope truly lies and how we need to be a positive light in a negative world. I came upon this wise advice for social media posters from the Gospel of John. “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. (John 6:43) I laughed when I read that and...
The opener "Play the Game Tonight" was one of their greatest hits, but it has nothing to do with great, emotional Kansas songs like "Miracles out of Nowhere" or "Lamplight Symphony". These are all gone by now and we have to digest some vinyl confessions : not easy. FM flavour for t...
And so, I have some confessions to get off my chest – quarter-life confessions of a gay Christian. A Gay Christian’s Confessions For brevity’s sake, here are some bulleted points that pertain to my faith, homosexuality, and the seeming conflict I bear as a gay Christian: ...
Therefore people would make confession against the accused out of fear for the devil, stating that they were witches even if there were logical explanations for certain events.“Another Lacy, who …show more content… The Puritans must treat each other likes brothers in faith, where they must ...
One of the things that has long amazed me and given me joy is how there is room for everyone in the Catholic Church. We have people of all races, from almost every imaginable culture celebrating their faith within the Church. We have different Rites for different cultures and different tradi...
walked away too. The answer cannot be to pound kids over the head with dry theological lectures, because hyperrationalism is also a problem. But the opposite extreme — teaching young people that the faith is all about emotional experience and fideism — sets them up to be ex-Christians....
Without getting super critical, there are plenty of people who call themselves Christians who are probably great at hundreds of the other commandments, but they miss the mark on these two. They don’t love God with their hearts, souls, and minds and they don’t love their neighbors as them...
However, the integrity of the soul as regards sal-vation was crucial – as studies such as Brad Gregory’s book onmartyrdom,Salvation at Stake, are proving – to the self-understanding ofearly modern Christians in life-and-death confrontations with ‘capitaljustice’.53Men and women might have...