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Liberal ChristianityArthur C. RugerLatest ArticlesNeither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel In closing, I must be the first to admit that Suite101.com has been the cradle in which my desire and effort to write has been nurtured. Suite101 members have joined in my education by participating in discussion threads with every single participant planting in my interior world a seed of perspective ... What Does It Mean To Be Christian In America? First of a series. Today it is time for our passions to speak. In the absence of our own passions, we are passively allowing our society to slide toward being told by others what the correct answer is to “What does it mean to be Christian in America.” DIVINATION: Divining the Divine. Start a conversation about Ouija boards and you will invariably encounter active Christians who react instinctively with rejecting, considering them dangerously occult - a tool of the mythical Satan. Mention the Tarot, The I Ching, Runes and other forms of divination including astrology and you’ll encounter from the same knee-jerk reaction that ... Christian Divination in the 21st Century: Prophets, prompters and the Spirit Speaking to the Church Guidance, prompting, faith and trust … all expressing the living mystical aspect to Christianity that touches far more accurately on living spiritually than all the preaching, doctrine and conformity to some orthodoxy combined. So, you're telling us that Utah is the closest thing to a theocracy in America A glimpse at living in the closest thing to a formal theocracy in the United States Hanging on the Law and the Prophets: Jesus Restored Sanctity to the Scriptures The centuries-old controversy over the role of scripture, the letter of the Law and the spirit of the Law, were clarified by Jesus in one bold and powerful response in which he brought forth the context in which scriptures are applied. Liberal Christian Evangelizing: Exclusivity in God's Kingdom Be Damned If part and parcel of Christian activism today includes an aggressive evangelical effort then I see liberal Christians empowered to counter the evangelizing of questionable theology and priorities of the Christian Right with an evangelical effort that builds rather than destroys, that seeks peace rather than attempts to justify war, that, ... If you've seen the movie GHOST and remember the scenes where Whoopi Goldberg tries to convince Demi Moore that she (Whoopi) has actually spoken to Patrick Swayze you may have a sense of what it was like the day and internationally know psychic walked into my office announcing that God would ... Stand and do Battle ... Against the Real Foe NY Times writer Nicolas Kristof is saying that liberals need to take Spong's example, and stay on the field, drop the insults and challenge the radical Christian Right as to their religious and scriptural justifications for attitudes and actions. Ours or Theirs: Reformation is on the Table Christian Reconstruction, the sibling to Dominionism as both stand front and center for the "True American Holy Christian Church" are defining the "make" in Jesus’ words in the same way the early Catholic missionaries "made" disciples of the Incas and Aztecs: Evangelizing replaced with coercion. |
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