It’s probably a given that most of us would like to avoid death — not only because we enjoy life, but because we worry that dying itself will be painful. The rabbis worried about that too. On today’s daf we read two descriptions of what death might feel like, and
Aquinas’s understanding of the human body is still often characterized and dismissed as denigrating toward the flesh and as overly beholden to what may be called an “ethic of control.” As one recent critic has recently phrased it: “the body [for Aquinas] exists passively as a dead instrument.”[1] At first
Five Reasons Your Current Church Attendance Is the New NormalWhy is your current attendance a new normal? Here are the five most common reasons the Church Answers team found. 4 Systems Church Leaders Should Care AboutEric Geiger identifies four systems which church leaders should care are effective in their churches.
By Dr. Shanta Premawardhana More than 50 years ago, Dr. Mary Nelson (founder of Bethel New Life in the westside of Chicago) marched with Dr. Martin Luther King and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. For several decades, Dr. Nelson was a faculty member of OMNIA Institute’s predecessor organization SCUPE
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. If you have received Jesus as your Saviour and embraced him as your Lord, how did Jesus call you to himself? What happened is a part of your
Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church. Saturday,
The Church of Jesus Christ has always been a global one, reaching out to men and women of “every nation, race, people, and tongue” (Rev 7:9) from even before the first Pentecost. Though Jesus’s Apostles were uniformly Middle-Eastern, Simon of Cyrene was from Africa, an African saint drawn to Christ
A friend took this photo. The ice-covered tree is in his yard. Due to the ice storm warning that is in effect until Friday 6 AM CT, I will not be posting anything more on my blog today. Anglicans Ablaze