Tag: church

The Safe Faith Community Project

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. What do you plan to do about it? Here’s one option. Ask your church or faith-based community organization to take the pledge to become a Safe Faith Community. The team behind Document the Abuse has unveiled this new initiative at the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month to encourage faith-based […]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The UN chose this date because January 27th, 1945 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Unfortunately, in the 69 years since, hatred against Christians and Jews has become fashionable again. In predominantly Christian countries Christians are now being branded intolerant, narrow-minded, radical, and dangerous, labels […]

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Merry Christmas All!

From http://www.youtube.com/user/HyperPixelsMedia Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: […]

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Sign the Saeed Petition

Today I received this email and am going to share it verbatim: Pastor Saeed’s life is in grave danger. Yesterday, he was transferred to another Iranian prison – a deadly cellblock in one of Iran’s most dangerous and obscure prisons.

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Blaming the Victims

Every time the topics of abuse, dysfunction, and boundary violations come up, I cringe, knowing that the same old sanctimonious rhetoric is about to slither up my neck like a decrepit, toxic snail: “We’ll pray for you. You need let go of your unforgiveness. We hope that the root of bitterness will be dug out.” […]

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The Church Courtesy Challenge

Last weekend it happened again. I was asked, “would you mind if my husband and sons sat here?” which indicated that I should change my seat. So I did. Big deal. When the other family members showed up while I was listening to what was going on up front, I became aware that several people […]

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Get Yourself…

..back to church. That’s the mantra in this hilarious video by the pastors at Gold Creek Community Church in Mill Creek, Washington. The Herald just wrote a feature on this and its controversial rap star lifestyle content. Love it or hate it— some detractors have questioned if this is the appropriate way to present the […]

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