Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. ….
When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is tha….
There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to si….
[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was th….
I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that..
One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, ….
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation tha….
We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church..
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975..
As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church..
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and c….
Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respe….
I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are ina….
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings t….
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Chur….
We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the las….
I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church..
It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously..
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful..
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who h….
The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel..