To sum up the pain, the polarizations, the needs and beliefs of breakaway churches and those remaining is almost an impossibility and each reader has to do their own research and draw their own conclusions, especially those who have never been part of the world wide communion.
The Pharasaios Journal from The Diocese of Wenchoster, eases the chaos and [...]

The post title comes from Colby Cosh - a remark he made on his blog a few years ago that was a wonderfully clarifying statement in a time of chaos in my faith journey. And Cosh is an atheist, one I shall always be beholden to for his wisdom, which far exceeded mine.
I’ve spent the past several hours [...]

Ailing evangelist Billy Graham said Monday he and his wife Ruth are deciding together where they will be buried, an announcement apparently sparked by a recent report the family is feuding over the issue.
“That determination will not be made by our family, our organization or outsiders, but will be ours alone,” Graham, 88, said in [...]

That didn’t take long.
Chris Beard, who directed an adult leadership skills and missions group at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado is already off the mega church’s website. He has resigned.
The Denver Post:
Christopher Beard, who headed a ministry that trained young adults in leadership skills, stepped down Friday after admitting to “a series of decisions [...]

Andrew Jones (tall skinny kiwi) was speaking at a church service in the UK when two cult members came in and started ‘prophesying’. It was disruptive and disturbing. Hence the post title.
Someone had a video recorder, and I respect the fact they didn’t edit out their members reactions. The retired police officer/teacher’s reaction while understandable given [...]

 
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The Weblog Awards, sponsored by Wizbang in the US are a very big deal to some people. Big enough that in their fourth year (with an actual award ceremony in Los Vegas) there were about 5 hundred thousand votes cast this year.
So why am I laughing?
Because of the results above.
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Quick. Name a famous protestant preacher from the 20th century.
Okay. Name a famous 20th century Catholic.
Do you know where they are buried?
If the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has it’s way, you’ll know where Ruth and Billy Graham will be, and you’ll be targeted by their fundraisers if you go pay your respects.
In a memorial designed by [...]

Evangelicalism is generously populated with people who live by the crisis, and the crisis is always solvable by whatever their current theological passion happens to be.
Nothing much humbles us anymore. We’ve got so many books, blogs and celebrity preachers that we’re reaching the higher levels of really true truth regularly. Any Martian who happened to [...]