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In the Face of Moral Crisis, Churches Can’t Choose ‘Neutrality’
How Civil War–era churches that avoided taking sides on slavery ended up siding with its supporters.
Paul Harvey
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antebellum and Civil War–era America, churches and denominations along
the border between North and South voiced what would have been
considered “moderate” opinions on slavery. But as April Holm shows in A
Kingdom Divided, neutrality was attractive but never really neutral. It
was a political choice like any other. Border-region evangelicals were
not proslavery ideologues; neither were they abolitionists. Mostly, they
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Churches Can’t Choose ‘Neutrality’
The surprising power of questions
Evangelical leaders discuss future of their movement in Trump era
Religion News Service: About 50 evangelical Christian leaders gathered early this week to discuss the future of evangelicalism amid concerns their movement has become too closely associated with President Trump's polarizing politics.
Religion & Politics: How do evangelical colleges keep the faith?
Religion News Service: About 50 evangelical Christian leaders gathered early this week to discuss the future of evangelicalism amid concerns their movement has become too closely associated with President Trump's polarizing politics.
Religion & Politics: How do evangelical colleges keep the faith?
What happens when a church dedicated to fighting white supremacy is accused of it
Washington Post: The conflict at the Northwest Washington church reflects a modern debate about racism, which often surfaces in less overt ways that can be open to interpretation.
Washington Post: The conflict at the Northwest Washington church reflects a modern debate about racism, which often surfaces in less overt ways that can be open to interpretation.
Muslims in America: Immigrants and those born in U.S. see life differently in many ways
Pew Research Center: Immigrants tend to have secured a stronger socioeconomic foothold than U.S.-born Muslims, and they generally express more positive opinions about their place in America.
Pew Research Center: Immigrants tend to have secured a stronger socioeconomic foothold than U.S.-born Muslims, and they generally express more positive opinions about their place in America.
There's no shame in merging
Inside Higher Ed: To confront the facts and take action is wiser than to be nostalgic about a bygone era, a university professor and leader argues.
Inside Higher Ed: To confront the facts and take action is wiser than to be nostalgic about a bygone era, a university professor and leader argues.
The surprising power of questions
Harvard Business Review: Much of an executive's workday is spent asking others for information. Yet unlike professionals who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, such as litigators, journalists and doctors, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed.
Harvard Business Review: Much of an executive's workday is spent asking others for information. Yet unlike professionals who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, such as litigators, journalists and doctors, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed.
Secular Superficiality Versus the Rootedness of Culture
The Heresy of Hell as Self-Inflicted
Charles Robertson
Secular Superficiality Versus the Rootedness of Culture
Anthony Esolen
Benedict XVI celebrates 91st birthday
Benedict XVI celebrates 91st birthday: Pope Emeritus spent his birthday, April 16, in the Mater Ecclesia Monastery in the Vatican, where he livesCatholic school in Sacramento has special program to prevent bullying: At St. Mary School, 'peace managers' help resolve conflicts between students before they get out of control
Maronite Church: Stop the online “doctrinal brawls”: Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï: Those who use social media, writings, teaching and any other activity to spread content incompatible with the doctrine of the Church are sinning against Christ
10 Bible Translations You’ve Never Heard Of
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Why we should read lesser-known versions of the Bible.
Jost Zetzsche
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English
readers have access to more translations of the Bible than readers of
any other language. The American Bible Society estimates that there have
been around 900 full and partial biblical translations into English.
Naturally, that staggering number isn’t readily available, but you can
easily order more than 50 different translations in your favorite
bookstore, and many more can be found in used bookstores and libraries.
These numbers bear witness to the remarkable treasure available to ...
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How Freedom Became an American Idol
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Why we should read lesser-known versions of the Bible.
Jost Zetzsche
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Popular blogger and pastor Trevin Wax discusses how a marginalized church can actually be more effective.
Interview by Drew Dyck
Where the Amish go on vacation
'Is my dad in heaven?' little boy asks pope
Catholic News Service: Question-and-answer sessions with youngsters are a standard part of Francis' parish visits. And, at St. Paul of the Cross parish on Monday it was Emanuele's turn.
Catholic News Service: Question-and-answer sessions with youngsters are a standard part of Francis' parish visits. And, at St. Paul of the Cross parish on Monday it was Emanuele's turn.
On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Religion News Service: For most people April 19 is just another springtime day on the calendar. But it is deeply embedded within Rabbi A. James Rudin's personal memory bank.
Religion News Service: For most people April 19 is just another springtime day on the calendar. But it is deeply embedded within Rabbi A. James Rudin's personal memory bank.
Where the Amish go on vacation
The New Yorker: Pinecraft, a small, sunny neighborhood in Sarasota, is a place of brief leisure for people who consider work to be sacred.
The New Yorker: Pinecraft, a small, sunny neighborhood in Sarasota, is a place of brief leisure for people who consider work to be sacred.
'I have made serious mistakes,' says pope. 'I ask forgiveness.'
Religion News Service: Francis from the beginning of his papacy has admitted that he is a sinner like every other Christian. He made a mistake, corrected it, asked for forgiveness. That is what it means to be a Christian, Thomas Reese says.
Religion News Service: Francis from the beginning of his papacy has admitted that he is a sinner like every other Christian. He made a mistake, corrected it, asked for forgiveness. That is what it means to be a Christian, Thomas Reese says.
'That is a start': Indiana church collects semi-automatic weapons, bump stocks to be melted
Indianapolis Star: Members of a Crawfordsville church who felt compelled to act in the wake of the Parkland school shooting are asking gun owners to give up their weapons in exchange for gift cards.
Indianapolis Star: Members of a Crawfordsville church who felt compelled to act in the wake of the Parkland school shooting are asking gun owners to give up their weapons in exchange for gift cards.
People who were homeless find housing
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Housing alone can't heal the wounds of homelessness. That also takes community. Just outside Austin, people are finding both at Community First! Village.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The Westminster Confession
The Westminster Confession
The Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, the Directory for Public Worship, With Associated Documents
The Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, the Directory for Public Worship, With Associated Documents
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Professor John Murray noted: ‘The Westminster Confession
is the last of the great reformation creeds. No creed of the Christian
church is comparable to that of Westminster in respect of the skill with
which the fruits of fifteen centuries of Christian thought have been
preserved, and at the same time examined anew and clarified in the light
of that fuller understanding of God’s word which the Holy Spirit has
imparted.’
This volume contains the Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, and the other principal documents to come out of the Westminster Assembly. The text is newly typeset, and biblical references are given in full. Later American revisions of the Westminster Confession are included in an appendix.
This volume contains the Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, and the other principal documents to come out of the Westminster Assembly. The text is newly typeset, and biblical references are given in full. Later American revisions of the Westminster Confession are included in an appendix.
Lucifer’s Game
Lucifer’s Game
Bob Sullivan
“The Deepest Truth About God”
Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
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