Merry Christmas [All Three of Them]
…Potlatch, but we can redeem it, I think, by remembering the poor and the marginalized. My church has an ‘Angel Tree’ program. And there are countless other charitable opportunities that…
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Don’t Blame the Boomers for Everything
…who opened the door for the cultural breakthrough that changed the dress and music of churchgoers and expanded the church beyond Sunday to small groups that would meet during the…
A Croatia Travelogue
…Here, unlike in Venice, they have preserved a whole complex, with the church, the Bishop’s Palace, the Baptistery across the way [converts were not allowed into the church building until…
The Problem with ‘Straight Pride’
…Catholic Church because of that legal loophole. Cohabitation. In the West, this has become a common practice of non-believers prior to marriage, though marriages preceded by cohabitation have generally been…
Saint Boniface’s Day and D-Day
Saint Boniface was born about 675 in Anglo-Saxon England. He was initially named Winfrid by his prosperous and respected family. At an early age he attended a monastery school, and…
On Political Trust and Media Attention
…Science Monitor. Religious cults have played a rather interesting role in the nonprofit journalism world for a while; not only the Christian Science Monitor, but the Unification Church’s Washington Times,…
Christianity and Science: Two Poles of a Biblical World View
…But in the parts of the world where Christianity is now growing, and increasingly dominating the world Church [see Lambeth 1998 for the Anglicans and 2019 for the United Methodists],…
A ‘Protestant-ish’ Argument for Icons?
…King David ‘represents’ Christ. [There was actually, in the early iconography, a Church Lady who represented the Church, who wasn’t clearly Mary.] I would suggest two moral boundaries to the…
The Real Significance of the Tithe
…be exclusively routed to the local church. The non-storehouse version puts the church first, but allows tithe money to be given to various agencies of Christian mission, education, and compassion…
Which Western Civilization? We’re on our Third One.
…church regularly, but 75% check the box on their tax return that devotes a little portion of their tax check to maintenance of church facilities. Churches may not be as…