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8 Sep 2012, 9:51 am by Georgialee Lang
From his shaved head and striped jumpsuit to his withering limbs, Warren Jeffs no longer resembles the exalted man and prophet who ruled the polygamous sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, including Canada’s FLDS community in Creston, British Columbia, called “Bountiful”. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Steve Bailey, Pastor, New Philadelphia First United Methodist ChurchRemarks: Jerry Falwell, Jr., President, Liberty UniversityBenediction: Roger W. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 6:11 am by Staci Zaretsky
The United Church of Christ filed a lawsuit against North Carolina over its ban on gay marriage saying it restricts its clergy’s religious freedom. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Gary Herbert negotiated a version with the above exclusions that gained the support of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 9:20 am by Andrew Delaney
The Church argued that every building on the property is dedicated to the worship and service of Christ, and to propagating the Church’s religious message, and thus every building is technically a “church edifice,” covered by the pious-use exception. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 10:35 pm
The amazing part is that he wrote and first published the post in 2010, when he was still a priest in the Church of England. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 1:36 am
Then, however, he offers them some unsolicited (but sorely needed) spiritual advice, which stems from his careful observation of both their worship, and of their tangled debates over present-day Christian morality:ECUSA, and not just PCUSA, would do well to take the Orthodox Archpriest's words to heart:As an Ecumenical Advisory Delegate, I represent here the Orthodox Church of Christ -- the Church that has an unbroken, unchanged, and unreformed tradition -- and our… [read post]
26 Nov 2023, 4:46 am by Rick Garnett
In my experience, homilists in Catholic parishes don't know quite what to do with the Feast of Christ the King, which is today. [read post]
20 May 2024, 6:34 am
"Don't be mistaken, even within the Church, people in polite Catholic circles will try to persuade you to remain silent.... [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 1:48 pm
First, congratulations to Sister Helen Prejean. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 8:39 am by Brian Hollar
  It was the Ethiopians, for instance, who meditated on various Coptic apocryphal accounts of Pontius Pilate and decided that the Roman governor who presided over Christ's crucivixion should become a Confessor of the Church, to be celebrated in their sacred art and given a feast day in June and a star place in the liturgy at Epiphany, the greatest feast of the year, when the priest intoned a phrase from the Psalms which was also an echo of his words: "I will wash my… [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 1:13 am by Frank Cranmer
Thus Malcolm Brown, Director of Public Affairs for the Church of England, in a special issue of Ecclesiastical Law Journal in 2019, argues that the Coronation is ‘not just a bit of invented pomp’ but a ‘solemn religious rite in which the Church of England, in its priestly role representing God who was incarnate on earth in Christ, confers upon the monarch her temporal and spiritual authority’.[4] Similarly, Adrian Hastings asserts that… [read post]
23 Dec 2012, 12:10 pm
This first and greatest enrollment was taken, since in this one name of Caesar all the peoples of the great nations took oath, and at the same time, through the participation in the census, were made a part of one society.Accordingly, it is Luke himself who gives us our first clue to the year in which Christ was born: if the "first registration" to which he refers is the first great registration of the whole Roman world ordered by Augustus, then… [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The best evidence of that are two recent legal actions taken against the corrupt Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“FLDS”): one for establishing a theocracy on the border of Utah and Arizona and another for money laundering and food stamp fraud. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 7:57 am by Dan Gauss
Paul Wood Paul Wood is a minister at the First United Methodist Church in Cheraw, South Carolina. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 10:08 am
Doing so will be the only way for Christ Church to prevent that judgment from becoming irreversible, should the Timberridge parish be victorious in the highest court. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 9:48 pm
In Virginia, the Church of the Word, and the Church of Our Savior, would be fully within their First Amendment rights if they should defy the written terms of their settlement agreements, and re-affiliate with the ADV immediately after signing them, or whenever they so chose. [read post]
19 Apr 2008, 4:55 am
I've been closely reading accounts of the child-custody hearing in Texas involving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [read post]