"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
"Practice hospitality." Romans 12:13 Fuller seminary's J. Dudley Woodberry makes a distinction between "proselytizing" and what he calls "gracious evangelism." This distinction seems etymologically valid. To "proselytize" is to create converts. To evangelize is to share the evangel — the "good news." Proselytizing has acquired new legal baggage in recent years, which is one reason [...]
Via the Sideshow I read Dave Neiwert's detailed analysis of the right-wing funding behind groups like the Institute on Religion and Democracy. So IRD has resurfaced and reinvented itself yet again, this time around hoping to ride the media wave of the backlash against the consecration of an openly gay Episcopal bishop. IRD has a [...]
A few years after I got married in an Episcopal Church in Newtown Square, Pa., some friends of mine tied the knot just a few miles down the road at a Unitarian Church here in Media. They also weren't able to secure a marriage license, but the minister wasn't bothered by that bit of Caesar's [...]
In 1969, a small mission hospital in Tennessee burned down and all of its records were lost. As a result my ex-wife, who was born in that hospital, did not have a birth certificate until she was 23 years old. This created an unforeseen problem at St. Albans (Episcopal) Church, where our wedding date was [...]
"Some are guilty. All are responsible." Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Didn't post much this weekend, my dad was in town. Here's a story I learned from my dad. Dad used to practice law in New Jersey. Years ago, he was researching a title deed in North Plainfield and found that the buyers back in the [...]
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