We’re sending you into the weekend with something lighter – and we mean that literally. Earlier this week, NASA released a video compiling three years’ worth of continual observation of the sun in about three minutes. According to the agency, two images per day were used to create the video.… [more]
Theology & The Church
Interfaith prayer vigils and worshiping the one true God
The outcry over the censuring of a Lutheran pastor for participating in the Newtown interfaith prayer vigil has re-opened a nagging theological can of worms, one centered around this question: how do we determine who is worshiping the true God? My first church upon graduating from seminary was conservative by… [more]
Are the Women of the Wall confusing protest and worship?
On Dec. 14, several members of the Women of the Wall group were arrested in Jerusalem. Their crime? They were trying to pray at Jerusalem's Western Wall, dressed in the traditional shawls and scripture boxes worn by Jews during prayer. Historically, all Jews were commanded to pray every day, but… [more]
Should vacation Bible school programs be smaller?
For some church congregations, summer means hosting hundreds of children at vacation Bible school. At Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Mich., efforts are focused on fewer children to make a big impact. Twenty children from grades three to five attended the church’s Passport program, which offers academic enrichment… [more]
What religious snake handlers want
As her momma lay dying, she zipped around the house taking seemingly random photographs of ceilings, corners, pictures and walls. She explained to me that other family members would gather to collect her mother’s soul and she was hoping to get a picture. Pastoring a church has afforded me experiences… [more]
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TimF If I had my way, we'd skip Mother's Day and Father's Day mentions entirely at church; but if we must, the idea of saying Happy Mother's Day and then preaching the sermon the Lord gave you is the way to go.
Mother's Day sermons...ugh
bethanykj When Isaiah says that true fasting is loosing the chains of injustice, protest fits in pretty well. It seems like the distinction between "rights" and "civil rights" you make here is pretty thin.
Are the Women of the Wall confusing protest and worship?
Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Xioc1138 While it is true that some in science think that this will disprove God when we find the "god particle," others believe that this will simply further our knowledge on the building blocks that God created to create our universe.
How the Large Hadron Collider reveals the mind of God
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations