Naomi Schaefer Riley’s column today has the ring of truth; well done. More importantly, as a member of a mixed marriage (Catholic-Baptist; one faith separated by 400 years of squabbling), I can attest that it is an absolute truth that one must tolerate those we love.
As for the “religious thermometer” with respect to [...]
Archive for the ‘ecumenicism’ Category
Mormons and Tigers and Bears, oh my
Posted in Mormonism, ecumenicism on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Breaking point
Posted in Churches, ecumenicism on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the June 2008 issue of Touchstone, a review of a book on the Assyrian Church and its split from Rome sheds some light of the why of the split:
In the sixth century, more than one catholicos of the Church of the East attempted without success to reach theological agreement and restore communion with [...]
“fully multicultural”
Posted in Calvinism, Churches, ecumenicism on November 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is more than a little disturbing. We are told of a Christian who may not be welcome as a teacher at Calvin College because she does not, according the this Washington Post article, “attend a congregation with ties to the Christian Reformed Church.”
Fair enough. Calvin College’s name has to count for something, [...]
Mission to the Jews
Posted in anti-Semitism, ecumenicism on September 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I happened to catch a PBS program, Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith. The commentators, from a variety of Christian denominations and Jewish branches, were, for the most part, modern and liberal in their outlook.
By “liberal” I very much do not mean liberal in the sense of politically so. Rather, theologically [...]
Conservative or liberal?
Posted in apologetics, ecumenicism on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Labels can be walls, built to separate and exclude. Or, sometimes, they can be ways to include more people, by making a bigger tent of meeting. In the ever-fractionating Christian world, two terms that seem to both exclude and include are “conservative” and “liberal.”
Most everyone would agree that the Episcopal Church tends to [...]
a right to be wrong
Posted in Catholicism, ecumenicism on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rod Dreher has written an essay which should be read by anyone who is offended by Pope Benedict’s statement earlier this month (MSNBC story here). That statement reaffirmed ancient Roman Catholic teaching: that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true and complete Christian church.
Dreher’s central thesis? It’s far better for denominations [...]
Lapsed Catholic?
Posted in Catholicism, ecumenicism on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To anyone who keeps track of such things, I’d be counted as a lapsed Catholic. A former daily-goer-to-Mass and pray-er-of-the-Rosary Catholic, now a member of a Baptist church.
The point of this post is simple: to state, unequivocally, that if I write anything that is critical of my former church, it is out of love. And [...]
More in common?
Posted in Catholicism, ecumenicism on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An article by David Howard in the Wall Street Journal on the conversion of Francis Beckwith, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), makes what has become a common claim: that Christians who are theologically conservative, whether Catholic or evangelical, have more in common than that which divides them.
At least [...]
