Seems that every election cycle, there’s an unholy alliance of politicians and fundamentalist religious leaders who unite to attack the LGBT community. Well, here we go again. In its latest incarnation, there’s a movement an epidemic, actually of religious leaders who have lost
The pilgrims fled Europe and came to Plymouth to escape the intolerance and hatred of religious persecution. Almost four centuries later, a very disturbing trend is taking place in America that is the very antitheses of what this country is suppose to stand for and
Traditionally, Christian observation of Pentecost has recalled and celebrated the conversion of diverse peoples. The apostles preached to “devout Jews from every nation under heaven,” and “each one heard them speaking in the native language of each” (Acts 2:5-6). Beginning in Australia in 1997, and
Scripture: Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:36-41, Luke 8:22-25 Over the course of the past year or so, I have stopped attending church. (Like an abused dog, hiding in the corner and licking its wounds, I have decided to punish the church by removing my august presence.)
Revive us again; Fill each heart with thy love; May each soul be rekindled with fire from above. — Revive Us Again (William P. MacKay and John J. Husband) Any attempt to transform a social system without addressing both its spirituality and its outer forms
In his continuation of the anti-Christian attacks on the gay community, the Pope recently stated that the media is to blame for portraying gays as “normal.” He further accused the media of not promoting the “family” enough as the wholesome institution that it is supposed
Every four years the United Methodist Church (UMC) has a general conference where church rules and future plans are established. The UMC has generally been regarded as a more liberal denomination but, at the 2000 conference, it took a strongly conservative stand against homosexuals. Since
I promise to love and care for you, Through times of joy and times of sorrow, To rejoice when you are happy, And grieve when you suffer, To share your interests, And hopes for the future, To try to understand you, Even when I do
If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here. For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” First Corinthians 13: 12 (KJV) Bishop V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as “the first openly gay