No, it is not voting. Vote if you like, but Christians need to keep such actions in perspective and not get caught up in pseudo-salvations. We have a duty, as theologian Stanley Hauerwas recently said, not to take voting too seriously. Instead as an act of allegiance and reorientation take part in communion with other Christians. Throughout [...]
We all fall into our ruts of worship and prayer. We pray to our style and find churches that meet that outlook. Pentecostals might find speaking in tongues as normal as breakfast, but be extremely uncomfortable praying the Rosary. Episcopalians might have no problem praying the daily office, but to sing praise songs with arms [...]
Church shopping is the death of any good Christian, but it is important to visit other churches from time to time to see that God is not contained within our own expression. Today, visit a church other than your own. This may mean attending two church services if you have obligations to your own local [...]
Money is magical. It is hard not to be enthralled with its power. Try to rip a dollar in half–its a psychologically difficult thing to do. Yet as Christians we must live according to a different economy, an economy based on love and charity in which money is at best a passing convenience, at worst [...]
Where else in American culture do people sing together than in church? This is a unique aspect of our way of being in the world. Singing may well have preceded speech in human history by some accounts–singing is almost certainly our first language with God. It is a fundamental practice of devotion. Today find a [...]
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