Many look forward to Christmas Eve and Christmas, with many Christians commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Trinitarian Christians are often unaware that their December 25th is actually a holiday that the Roman Catholic Church in ancient times took over from the Gentiles, who commemorated their sun god on that day. Every Christmas ChristiansContinue reading “Bethlehem from the Christian tradition or from reality”
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Lutheran Denominations: A Guide to America’s Top 10
Thomas Jacobson Though the origin of the Lutheran tradition is in the Reformation of sixteenth century Europe, Lutherans today are found worldwide. Beginning as a church reform movement under the leadership of Martin Luther in Germany and spreading to other European lands, Lutheranism is today best understood as a family of diverse though related denominationalContinue reading “Lutheran Denominations: A Guide to America’s Top 10”
How the term Evangelical has grown to blur theology and ideology
In the 19th century several lay preachers who taught a non-trinitairan Biblical faith, used printed media to spread the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God, by means of tracts and pamphlets, in times that evangelicalism became deeply intertwined with a certain strain of conservative politics, to end up in the 21st century where conservative evangelists became fundamentalists totally taken by GOP politics and blurring the lines between theology and ideology.
The Principles of Communism – Friedrich Engels
Originally posted on Lyle Hausman:
1. What is communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. 2. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital, whose sole…
500 Years of Reformation Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency
After 500 Years, Reformation-Era Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency Theological differences diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians in past centuries. As Protestants prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, new Pew Research Center surveys show that in both Western Europe and the United States, the theological differences thatContinue reading “500 Years of Reformation Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency”
A special anniversary for the Church where Catholics and Protestants find common ground
Luther Before the Diet of Worms, photogravure after the historicist painting by Anton von Werner (1843-1915) in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 500 years ago 95 theses where posted at the door of the cloister church of Wittenberg, which became to serve as the catalyst for one of the world’s largest religious splits, asContinue reading “A special anniversary for the Church where Catholics and Protestants find common ground”
Some View on the World 