…‘tithe’ 10% to 15% of their income to Christian efforts, and that usually means giving to the local church first [including, but not limited to, work that helps the poor]….
In the classical Christian church we hear much about our identity in Christ. We also have a host of other identities or roles: parent or child in a family; worker…
…How will the Church deal with it? Certain aspects of megachurch liturgy, as he already said, are probably appealing to the Bling people’s need for stimulation, and the ‘health and…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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 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…
…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,…
…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],…