Tag: Christianity

In Defense of Doing the Right Thing

... even when the church is wrong. Earlier this month, the news broke that the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus broke fellowship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Church of Sweden. The EECMY came to this decision after carefully deliberating the ELCA's and the CoS's decisions to accept same-sex partnered clergy onto their rosters. My first … Continue reading In Defense of Doing the Right Thing

Hiding

How long has it been since I had any time to write? Truthfully, I don't even have time now. I've never been through so much hell before, especially hell of my own making. I am reminded of my last semester at my university. I declared a second major four months before graduation and vainly assumed … Continue reading Hiding

Worship Styles: An Idiot Falls Into a Trap

A few weeks ago, I sat in Bexley Hall's Tuesday night Eucharist and listened, for the second week in a row, to the old old Rite I liturgy out of the Book of Common Prayer. I mentally objected, citing my conviction that worship should be in the language of the people (just because something is … Continue reading Worship Styles: An Idiot Falls Into a Trap

“Rejecting” Jesus

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-peoria-bishop-politicians-who-support-abortion-rights-reject-jesus-20121031,0,1711108.story “Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord,” Jenky added. “They are objectively guilty of grave sin.” “Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against,” he said. … Continue reading “Rejecting” Jesus