…Pasadena. As for Fifield’s church, it returned to the UCC in 2017. Today its website declares, “First Congregational Church of Los Angeles is a progressive, positive, and open church with…
…position regarding civil ‘marriage’ for those outside the church. It is heresy to demand that such ‘marriages’ be recognized under canon law within the church, and (b) persons of homosexual…
The historic church, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox, has taken a dim view of ‘cohabitation,’ which used to be called ‘shacking up’ or ‘living in sin.’ The faithful churches in fact…
…current President of the United States. We have Trumpite churches and anti-Trumpite churches. Praise God, we still have plenty that are neither. Earlier this year, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions…
So much for the libertarian reputation of Goldwater’s state! Related: “Church Fights Back After Arizona Town Bans Home Bible Study” at FOXNews.com…
…the institutional church structures can validly mediate authority and law, in the end, I think that the institutional church cannot mediate grace; only Jesus does that. He is the one…
…St. Paul’s “do not be unequally yoked,” the early church disapproved of men marrying outside the church and winked at women marrying outside the church, because there was a shortage…
…the northern and central sections of the country, which are the regions dominated by the ancient Orthodox Church. For those who are interested, it is a non-Chalcedonian church, sister to…
…institutional church can guard the purity of the church through discipline, excommunication, and guarding baptism, but in the end it cannot itself shut the grace of Jesus off from me….
…the “institutional church . . . and the `organic’ church.” (p. 145). The institutional church is the actual institution of the church that is run by elders, or bishops, or…