I recently attended a course at work called “Managing Change.” My employer has recently merged with another company and therefore there is change on the horizon. For some of us our working patterns will change and for others there will be doing different jobs with new responsibilities. Staff will react to this in differing ways, […]
Should we be tempted to believe that our system of interpretation is the only system that has ever existed, Ramm makes it very clear in his discussion of the “historical schools” that this is not so. The “Battle for the Bible” may have, in fact, been born as the second century Christian exegetes, who were […]
Thirty five years of Bible reading has convinced me that God is not nit-picky. He doesn’t judge every little infraction we make as we go minute by minute through the day. In fact to believe that he does borders on the insane and comes well within the borders of frivolous nonsense. What is not frivolous […]
In the teachings of Taoism, after death the soul passes into another human or animal body. It is believed that there are Ten Tribunals in the Underworld or Hell. When a human being dies, his soul will have to face judgement there and if found sinful, the soul will have to go through all the […]
Be of good cheer, Episcopalians. Ideological splits in churches
are not and never have been the end of the world, as close as
this one is to the end. Splits are proof of growth. Traditional
Episcopalians still have a home. The new gay branch will rapidly
expand by a near monopoly on performing gay weddings, […]