tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post4769407018579098870..comments2023-11-02T10:50:42.128-05:00Comments on CLOSED: Jeremiah Wright, John Hagee, Jurassic ParkTLF+http://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-66735055440456882072008-03-28T10:37:00.000-06:002008-03-28T10:37:00.000-06:00Thanks for the link, cp... there was also Pat Robe...Thanks for the link, cp... there was also Pat Robertson's "suggestion" about assasinating Hugo Chavez.<BR/><BR/>You probably caught the news that Sioux Falls is the fastest growing city in the Midwest, and something like #36 nationwide - part of that is due to an influx of medical professionals, and this will only accelerate as the new Sanford Children's Hospital and Medical Research facility come on line.<BR/><BR/>Why do I mention this? Because Anglicanism/The Episcopal Church used to be a church that could witness to the kind of rational, community-oriented people that are moving here. But for a host of reasons, we've lost any ability to connect with those outside the church. <BR/><BR/>I won't play the game blame on this - in fact, Neal Michell (Bishop Canditdate in conservative Dallas) AND the more liberal Diocese of South Dakota agree that TEC clergy and lay people are not good at sharing their faith with other people in any compelling way.TLF+https://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-71783426155720542912008-03-28T09:08:00.000-06:002008-03-28T09:08:00.000-06:00We try to dig up churchy DNA and revive a style of...<I>We try to dig up churchy DNA and revive a style of church that is dead and gone, and we are in hot water as a result.</I><BR/><BR/>True words, Father Tim.cphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13163860831438587167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-42040221994255915902008-03-28T09:06:00.000-06:002008-03-28T09:06:00.000-06:00What about the good pastor Parsley who is inciting...What about the good pastor Parsley who is <A HREF="http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html" REL="nofollow">inciting Christian violence against Muslims?</A><BR/><BR/>If only people would take the time to listen to or read the full text of not only Wright's sermons, and Obama's excellent oratory about them.cphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13163860831438587167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-43573792631820362622008-03-27T14:53:00.000-06:002008-03-27T14:53:00.000-06:00Tim+.Well done! You are absolutely right. Alas, ...Tim+.<BR/><BR/>Well done! You are absolutely right. Alas, this is also a violation of the Ninth Commandment, "You shall not bear false witness" against your neighbor, as Pastors Hagee and Wright have done.<BR/><BR/>Put another way, according to Paul in 1 Cor. 13, "Love hopes all things," and "believes all things," as well as enduring all things etc. That is, out of love we hope for the best and believe the best about others, rather than assuming the worst about them.<BR/><BR/>And that is something that those of us who are actively opposing the "gay is OK" delusion in TEC must also keep in mind. Our adversaries on the pro-gay side have the best of intentions, which we can and should honor, even while we decisively reject their agenda because it actually results in the opposite of what they intend. That is, they intend the liberation of gay people from oppression, but they end up leaving them in bondage to a perverse lifestyle that is seriously harmful to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-73789993048518183992008-03-26T20:21:00.000-06:002008-03-26T20:21:00.000-06:00Wonderful take on an old problem. Clergy, pastors,...Wonderful take on an old problem. Clergy, pastors, priests, evangelists, bishops, rabbis, etc. who keep anachronisms alive to serve their purposes are telling lies.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.com