More importantly, the ministry of Jesus was based on inclusion, rather than exclusion. Pastoral experience demonstrates the needs of people to be supported and welcomed. There is room for homosexuals in the church. They can be nurtured to become part of faithful, stable, loving relationships....
The total of your church cash donations plus all other charitable contributions you make during the year typically cannot exceed 60 percent of your adjusted gross income (AGI). If it does, then you cannot deduct 100 percent of your donations in the current tax year. Ho...
Scott Fitzgerald The color green Illustrates wealth and money as a lifeblood among his characters. Architecture The Church of the Light in Ibaraki-Shi, Japan The cross-shaped cutout Symbolizes attendees’ faith, allowing light to shine through during worship. Art For the Love of God by Damien ...
In years past, we have had a baby dedication once a year on Mother’s Day. However, we have talked about doing these quarterly though nothing is set in stone as of yet. In order to be a part of the baby dedication, one of the parents must be a member of the church as well as ...
Demonstrators kept gathering there Thursday, while others marched through downtown, where police in riot gear turned out in force as the nighttime curfew passed and crowds blocked some roads. Officers blocked the exits of a church where protesters gathered to avoid arrest for violating the cu...
Not so much in the Novus Ordo, however. I wonder how we could recover those highly desired things? Hmmm… The West, the Latin Church, does not need to adopt Eastern Rites to recover a sense of mystery. We have all of that in our traditional Roman Rite. That’s what the ROMAN Church...
The most basic task of moral restitution -- eradicate anti-Semitism from Christianity -- sounds simple, but it is not. The changes must go deep down because anti-Semitism lies at the very roots of Christianity. What, then, should the church do, and how must it change? For starters, the...
But we are in a fraught time for all humanity, not just Christians and homeowners. If architects can offer anything in a time of strife and confusion it is the clarity of making places for everyone. Sometimes those places have spaces that are Sacred. Save this picture!Lutheran Church of Mad...
(a juxtaposition of two frames that are thematically or compositionally similar). The first shot is a close-up of the baby in Connie’s hands. The next, a pistol in a man’s hands. Then the camera cuts back and forth from the church, where Michael renounces Satan, to the brutal ...
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