Face To Faith: Three Crucial Testimonies of Friendship Across Religious Divides
Huffington Post Blog
Originally posted here at the Huffington Post In most communities around the world, religious diversity is a fact — Hindus live next to Muslims, Mormons next atheists, Jews with Christians. One of the great tests of the …
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March against Monsanto May 25th, 2013
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I acknowledge that i do not own any of these clips used in the making of this video. This video is non-profit and was produced with the sole purpose of spreading awareness of the campaign against GMOs …
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Welcome to Progressive Christianity, Rob Bell!
A Review by Jim Burklo of Rob Bell’s new book: What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Welcome to Progressive Christianity, Rob Bell! A Review by Jim Burklo of Rob Bell’s new book: What We Talk About When We Talk About God (2013: HarperOne) A few years ago I wrote a “musing” about Rob …
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Bishop Spong on the next pope: At best ‘you might get somebody who’s a closet liberal’
Bishop Spong’s interview on the next Pope, on Viewpoint: At best ‘you might get somebody who’s a closet liberal’
read moreBaptist Church in Houston, Texas Installs First Female Minister
Covenant Church of Houston, Texas will install Laura Mayo as Senior Minister on Sunday, March 3rd at 11:00am. Laura is the first female minister for Covenant. She was called after Rev. Jeremy Rutledge, who had been Senior …
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Study Guide for the 8 Points of Progressive Christianity 2012
This Study Guide is for the third edition (2011) of the “8 Points” that have both identified and guided ProgressiveChristianity.org (formerly The Center for Progressive Christianity) since the organization’s founding in 1994.
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Awakened World 2012. A Woman’s Perspective
Two hundred spiritual activists had traveled to Italy in order to broaden and energize their passion for peace and justice through interreligious and spiritually engaged conversations. I realized how much I also was treasuring these informal personal exchanges within the larger context of the conference.
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Awakened World 2012: Learning to See in a “Wholly holy Way.”
Awakened World 2012, http://www.agnt.org/awakened2012.html was recently convened and hosted in Italy by three American organizations. I learned about the conference through the Association of Global New Thought, one of the sponsoring organizations, http://www.agnt.org/charter/conveners.html. 240 participants came from more than 15 …
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Being Pulled Out of Time
“Baby I’m amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,” sang Paul McCartney during his Wings days. Being pulled out of time was a feeling I experienced throughout a conference entitled “Awakened World 2012: Engaged …
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Why Am I Here?
Thoughts on the Awakened World 2012 Conference
With my heart pounding away, I was asking, “And why am I here?”
read moreDiocese says parish must hold separate Communion services
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond has told the nation’s only blended Catholic and Episcopal parish it must change its worship services so Catholics and non-Catholics meet in separate rooms for Holy Communion. The parish, Church of …
read moreAnnouncement of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
The Queen has approved the nomination of the Right Reverend Justin Welby for election as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. He will succeed Dr Rowan Williams who is retiring at the end of December after ten years …
read moreAnnouncement About Staff Changes
This has been a year full of new beginnings! Our newest transition has to do with our staffing. Deshna Ubeda has recently stepped down from her demanding position as Associate Director. She has decided that she wants to …
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TEDxManitoba – TJ Dawe: An Experiment in Collective Intelligence
TJ Dawe speaks about the goals of his organization, Beams and Struts, and an ideology of compassionate cooperation.
read moreFifty years on, Catholics still debate the meaning of Vatican II
When Pope John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council half a century ago, he said he wanted to “open the windows” of his almost 2,000-year Church to the rapid changes in the modern world. Within a few …
read moreReligious leaders respond to the rise of the “Nones”
As we noted yesterday, the number of Americans who have no religious affiliation has hit an all-time high, according to a new study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. One in five adults does not belong …
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Another Reason for Women in Church Leadership
It does mean that each gender should recognize that their opposite may have a naturally different way of perceiving and weighing things and not label it as either inferior or superior but as something to be understood and learned from. This, I believe, provides one of many good reasons for society and its institutions, including religions, to actively seek ways to include women at all levels of leadership and decision-making.
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Who Would Jesus Marry?
Newly discovered papyrus fragment is not historical evidence of Jesus’ marital status—but it reminds us that the status of women in the church has been subject to a lot of flim-flammery
Into that fraught landscape came the news earlier this week that Karen L. King, a Harvard Divinity School church historian and expert on the controversial biblical figure, Mary Magdalene, had been given access to a papyrus fragment held by a private collector.
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