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“We are called to be strange in the same way that the early Christian communities were strange to the world around them. The community in Antioch brought together Jews and Samaritans, Greeks and Rom...”
“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. I want to use the wor...”
“The Church's obsession with sexual restrictions is and always has been wrong wrong wrong. Wrong to be contemptuous of nave young women like Philomena and me. Wrong to ignore the men involved in cre...”
“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements. First it gets us into the sanctuary, the place of adoration and at...”
“It is useful to reflect that the word 'liturgy' did not originate in church or worship settings. In the Greek world it referred to publish service, what a citizen did for the community. As the chur...”
“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world by and with Jesus following our spiritually-forming text. Liturgy keeps us in touch with all t...”
“Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.”
“FIRST AMENDMENT No one shall give a damn about your religion. Freedom of speech doesnt mean you can say whatever you want about prayer and God and rules and gays, and everyone else has to take it. ...”
“The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.”
“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is abo...”
“I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.”
“As we open up our church meetings to God's power, they will not always follow a predetermined schedule or order. Who can outline what God might have in mind?”
“You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.”
“Invisible Christians in the world are only visible in church on Sunday.”
“The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious society" that fights in its own interest and thus ...”
“The Church, like the monarchy, was a valuable bastion of defense against the dangerous alliance of atheistical philosophy with political radicalism. The Bible taught the poorer orders that their lo...”
“Any church that emphasizes on miracles is simply telling His members that they dont need to qualify but depend on the supernatural power.”
“We have compromised the integrity of the church if we only emphasise on miracles.”
“Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.”
“Any church that over emphasises miracles is encouraging laziness.”
