After a prayer by Rick Matters, we began reports from the field.
VMFW - Bishop Iker has been fairly quiet, but has gotten very vocal about women's ordination. He has sent a formal request 10 Panel of Reference to shelter them from women's ordination. He is claiming that the church is forcing him to accept women's ordination.
Read moreThe statement was signed by the primates of Brazil, Mexico and Central America, six other Brazilian bishops, the majority of the bishops of Central America, all the bishops of Mexico, plus Western Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Those who did not sign it include the Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables and the bishops of Bolivia, Chile, Nthn. Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Read moreNow all that is changing. "Today the integration of spirituality and medicine is gaining acceptance and recognition in many academic and clinical institutions," say the authors.
"Although modern psychology and psychiatry focus primarily on the healing forces within their patients, the Spiritual Integrated Approach combines the healing forces of the human body, mind and spirit with the power and love of God," says Torosian, an Armenian Orthodox believer and Biddle a Roman Catholic.
Read moreReconciliation, Charleston warned, is not the same as resolution. The Gospel "accepts the reality of change, conflict and challenge as being ongoing in the life of any faith community," he wrote in the introduction to the workbook.
Bishop Charleston has it half right, and the half he has wrong destroys his thesis.
Read moreThose who did not sign it include the Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables and the bishops of Bolivia, Chile, Nthn. Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
"We have had nothing whatsoever to do with the organization of this although they might make it look as if we do," Venables wrote VirtueOnline.
Read more"We believe that God loves the whole human family, and that Christianity is about learning how to love like God. This means being called to break down the barriers that separate individuals and communities. St John's exists to share the extravagance of God's love with everyone, and you can read more about this in our mission statement."
Read moreIn his sermon, Griswold cited Christ's analogy of the kingdom of heaven being like a wedding banquet, a feast reserved not for the chosen but for all people. "And so the door to the banquet hall is flung wide and all sorts of riffraff, troublesome to us but close to the heart of God, are ushered in and given a place at the table," Griswold said.
Read more"I believe I have been inhibited as a punishment for trying to seek the truth about Johnson's alleged pedophile activities when I received an affidavit from one of 16 victims of my parish charging the former parish priest with sexual abuse."
Read more"It is important to challenge Paul's assertion forthrightly, because the casual, non-research minded reader, might easily accept his conclusion as entirely plausible on the face of it," writes Gallup.
Read moreShiflett goes on to visit with Orthodox, Catholics, Southern Baptists, and other traditionalists who still believe in the unchanging, omnipotent God who revealed Himself in infallible Scripture. The same God who was preached in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. "Such old-fashioned, rigid beliefs should marginalize their adherents in our open-minded, indulgent culture. But people are flocking to such churches, even if they don't agree with everything that is preached there.
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