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29 Apr 2014, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
What is interesting here is that the plaintiffs include the General Synod of the United Church of Christ and a number of clergy of different faiths; they argue that state law violates Free Exercise by prohibiting them, under penalty of criminal prosecution, from performing religious same-sex marriage ceremonies that their religious teaching approves. [read post]
25 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Moore, Gardner-Webb University, has published Founding Sins: How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution with the Oxford University Press:The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Pope Francis yesterday in his first public event on his trip to Canada addressed representatives of Canada's Indigenous Peoples to apologize for the policies of cultural destruction and forced assimilation which led to abusive residential schools operated by the Church. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 8:47 am by Clark West
Predictably, Time found Southern Baptist Al Mohler available to answer this burning question: “"When you adopt universalism and erase the distinction between the church and the world," says Mohler, "then you don't need the church, and you don't need Christ, and you don't need the cross. [read post]
6 May 2016, 5:23 am by FHH Law
Recon, appeal deadlines also established Early last month we reported on the FCC’s “grant” of a petition by several organizations – Independent Spanish Broadcasters Association, the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc., and the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, to be specific – who wanted the Commission to require the provision of Spanish-language (and, where appropriate, other language) alerts in the Emergency… [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 11:02 pm
There was of course a group called the Knights Templar, founded in 1119 after the success of the First Crusade. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 3:45 pm
 Invariably, the first people to grab the microphone are people you haven't seen at church since last year's New Year's Eve service. [read post]
26 May 2010, 11:48 am by Steve Hall
The first is the fact that recent developments in DNA technology have shown that people on death row were wrongly convicted. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 2:36 pm
(Schisms in the Church are a betrayal of Christ's mandate delivered to His disciples at the Last Supper: "A new commandment I give unto you -- that ye love one another as I have loved you. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 1:32 pm by Shawn Garrison
This is hardly the first time Pope Francis has addressed the touchy subject of divorce within the Church. [read post]
6 May 2014, 10:31 am by Scott Grabel
Johnson, who used the title of bishop at the Faith Congregational Church of God in Christ where he was pastor, allegedly sexually assaulted the victims both in his office at the church, and in the basement at his residence. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 5:31 am by Howard Friedman
Judge Caperton wrote:Given the Seminary’s commitment to Christian unity and an ecumenical spirit reflected in denominational diversity and interfaith inclusiveness, we fail to find persuasive Kirby’s argument that his lack of ordination or his lack of membership in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is determinative of his status at the Seminary.Chief Judge Acree filed a concurring opinion. [read post]
4 Feb 2014, 1:25 pm
According to Judge Ballew, it is the first time she has ordered a first name change. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 7:26 am
Ireland of Christ Church in northern New Jersey indulges in the kind of golf meditation that used to drive me crazy when I went to church in northern New Jersey half a century ago:Easter is God’s mulligan to humanity. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 3:20 am
Harris said he stabbed the 50 year-old pastor while fighting him off.Since the episode aired, the Memphis Police Department and Eyewitness News Everywhere have been in contact with people who claim Paige was molesting young boys at Earle Church of God in Christ as far back as 1984.Earley Wallace says Paige tried to fondle her son when he was 15 and she accuses the COGIC church of covering it up. [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 11:41 am
Now the Virginia attorney general has joined The Falls Church in requesting the Supreme Court to hear the case, if only with respect to the last two points of error raised in the Church’s petition.The first four points of error have to do with the manner in which Judge Bellows gave extraordinary precedence to ECUSA’s and the Diocese’s canons, to the point even that he allowed them to override State law and statutes. [read post]