The distinction between same-sex blessings and redefining matrimony is facile, and it masks the taste of the lethal spiritual poison. The sort of conservative and semi-biblically-conscious can supposedly find momentary comfort in the category of matrimony remaining sacrosanct -- for a little while. As someone else quite rightly quipped, "You bless it, you bought it."
Read moreI also stressed that, despite the difference over the Bible's teaching about sex and marriage, "there is no disagreement about the great dignity of all people, made in God's image and deeply loved by him. We all affirm the importance of welcoming everyone to our churches, whatever their sexuality or relational circumstances." Please do read the rest of that statement (see below), which says most of what I want to say again now.
Read moreThe proposed rule prohibits an Illinois lawyer from "engag[ing] in conduct in the practice of law that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, color, ancestry, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, military or veteran status, marital status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or socioeconomic status." Cutting through the legal jargon, the c
Read moreAnother report by the ACDP (African Christian Democratic Party) noted that when the police tried to intervene the disrupters pelted the police with bottles and other projectiles. These disruptors quite openly showed their allegiance by displaying not only Palestinian flags but also the black ISIS Jihadist flag. Death threats were shouted.
Read moreJoseph Strickland was born on Halloween 1958. He was born and bred in Texas and his entire ordained ministry has been lived out in the Lone Star state.
Initially he was ordained a priest in 1985 for the Catholic Diocese of Dallas. The Catholic Diocese of Tyler was carved out of the Diocese of Dallas in 1987 and Fr. Strickland became the new diocese's vocation director.
Read moreBut while each of these four denominations shares common history with mainline Protestantism, their geographic distribution is distinct. Christians within these traditions can realize a fruitful ecumenical partnership with one another through this complementary geographic presence.
Congregations in the ACNA are disproportionately located in either major metropolitan areas, including urban cores, or in college towns.
Read moreThe speeches came in torrents. Paul Marshall laid waste, in short order, to monopoly capitalism, crony capitalism, and woke capitalism. Jonathan Haidt, Erica Komisar, and Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, itemized the ways in which childrearing in the West had gone wrong and the possible corrections. French financier Charles Gave branded central bankers as a bunch of useless and terrifying criminals.
Read morePeople died, including civilians ...
The USS Arizona still remains at the bottom of the shallow harbor with her 1,177 crew members. Her sunken hull can be seen below the surface and her Number 3 gun turret barbette pokes above the water line. A second visible gun barbette remains submerged. Oil continues to slowly seep from her damaged fuel tanks.
Read moreToward the top of this 30' limestone stele the inscribed names of those who had given their lives for the freedom of all had worn away. Closer to eye level, the names inscribed were recognizable. Ringing that town square is an Appellate Courthouse, two churches and the mansion of a one-time politician which when built was the largest house in Illinois.
Read moreTotalitarian systems employ surveillance as a method of control. In the past, vast networks of informers and bureaucrats kept watch on the populace. Today we have much more sophisticated systems. Governments such as Communist China have already instituted their 'social credit system' using such systems. These systems co-opt privately controlled technology companies, especially those which collect our personal information, and those which design and monitor surveillance systems.
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