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28859. wonkers2 - 1/27/2007 5:22:12 PM Where's Jen lately? Maybe this'll smoke her out. Doing God's Work at Southren Babtist Seminary "Women are biblically forbidden to teach men!" 28860. wonkers2 - 1/28/2007 1:16:09 AM Greetings from the Landover Baptist Church 28861. wonkers2 - 1/28/2007 1:22:30 AM More from Landover Baptist 28862. Jenerator - 1/28/2007 8:16:41 PM When I was looking at seminaries, SWTS was suggested to me (locale, prominent alumnus, etc.) but I asked the Dean of Truett Seiminary in Waco about it and he said that it had become too fundamentalist.
When I asked him about then President Dr. Sloan (who got his Ph.D from there), his reply was "SWTS" has been taken over by the wrong sort; I wouldn't attend it." 28863. Jenerator - 1/28/2007 8:17:18 PM then President of Baylor, Dr. Sloan... 28864. Jenerator - 1/28/2007 8:17:37 PM That's why I chose Dallas Theological Seminary. 28865. wonkers2 - 1/29/2007 3:56:13 AM I'm glad to hear that! 28866. wonkers2 - 1/29/2007 3:58:22 AM And we all assume you aren't from Landover! 28867. alistairconnor - 1/29/2007 6:21:18 PM Ah, so it's possible to be "too fundamentalist", Jen?
Can't understand how. After all, it's all written down right there in the Bible!
(just joshing...) 28868. wonkers2 - 2/1/2007 3:22:19 AM Essay linking liberal Jews and anti-Semitism sparks a furor. 28869. judithathome - 2/11/2007 6:45:12 PM Intelligent Falling: Gravity Is Just A Theory, After All 28870. judithathome - 2/11/2007 9:08:36 PM 9News in Denver talked to a pastor at New Life Church and discovered this: New Life Church Pays Ted Haggard to Leave Town
The agreement calls for Haggard, the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals and senior pastor at the New Life Church, to not rejoin the ministry at New Life, for him and his family to relocate from Colorado Springs and requires Haggard to refrain from speaking publicly about the scandal.
"The Haggards will always be part of the New Life Family," said Brendle. "We love them and we are committed to helping them through this difficult process together."
The agreement also includes a financial settlement, but as part of the deal, the church and Haggard cannot disclose how much was included.
So I guess those in the church are not standing by old Ted except to hand over hush money to his greedy little paws. WWJD? 28871. wonkers2 - 2/16/2007 5:51:56 PM God's Instruction to Hosea, "Go find yourself a whore and marry her." God says marry a whore. 28872. alistairconnor - 2/20/2007 12:37:33 PM Anglican leaders are getting hot under the collar...
Bend over, Episcopalians...
Anglican traditionalists believe gay relationships violate Scripture and they have demanded that the US church adhere to that teaching or face discipline. 28873. wonkers2 - 2/20/2007 3:49:12 PM Akinola can't tell shit from Shinola. 28874. jexster - 2/20/2007 8:06:13 PM 28872...
Wonk and I had a schoolyard saying back in the day AC...
You can take an N-Word out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the N-Word
But I ask what is worse...an animist pagan parading as an archbishop or Snit Romney?
"You Do Not Know the Lord"
Vile mormon heretic. 28875. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/21/2007 3:23:29 AM 
28876. jexster - 2/21/2007 3:32:43 AM equal 28877. jexster - 2/21/2007 11:10:26 PM From the Bishop of California
I am writing in response to the Communiqué coming out of the primates meeting in Tanzania. While many are reacting to the words of the Communiqué, I would like to respond from an awareness of the foundation of the day-to-day ongoing commitment of Christians to the gospel of Jesus. As bishop to the Diocese of California, I make the following affirmations:
The inclusion of gay and lesbian people in the full life of the Church is a matter of justice: as we are all part of the world, and the kindom of God is like a net laid over that same world. All on the earth are connected by this net, whether perceived or not. Actions of justice and injustice reverberate throughout the whole, promoting either integrity, remembering, and shalom, or diabolic isolation.
Understood as expressed above, our task in the Church is not actually to include or exclude anyone, but to show forth an intrinsic co-inherence that simply is, created and sustained by God.
Gay and lesbian people who come to the Church seeking the blessing of the Church for their unions are people seeking to lead holy lives, exactly like heterosexual couples. The Church must respond to gay and lesbian people seeking the blessing of counseling, community support, prayer, and sacrament in the same way it does to heterosexual couples.
The Diocese of California is a place within the Church -- not alone, but prominently -- where gay and lesbian people have been freer to offer their gifts: Both professional gifts and those of lay and ordained ministry. As a result, the Diocese of California has been immeasurably enriched. As bishop of this diocese, I know very well that the Christian rights of gay and lesbian people are intrinsic and must be supported, and that without these gifts, this diocese would be as immeasurably impoverished as it is now enriched. Immeasurably as the spiritual gifts of all God's people know no measure.
The polity of The Episcopal Church requires the deliberation and consent of two bodies, the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, to properly respond to the requests made by the primates in their Communiqué.
The Episcopal Church should make every effort, including an extraordinary meeting of the two houses, and redoubled efforts to help the other provinces of the Communion understand both our theology relating to marriage and human sexuality and our polity. We should make these efforts, and at the same time not compromise the essentials of theology or our polity.
I will call on the Diocese of California to come together at Grace Cathedral during the Easter Season (at a time and on a date to be determined) when we affirm the triumph of Christ over all that destroys the creatures of God, filling that great house of prayer for all people with the full diversity of the people of God: people who differ in mind but not heart; gay and straight people; men and women; the young with the old; the poor and the rich; people of every ethnicity, all together to show our understanding of Christ’s gift of new life in the Church.
The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, Bishop of California
San Francisco
Shrove Tuesday, 2007
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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions,
but to live with them and rise above them and
see them in the light of exterior and objective
values which make them trivial by comparison.
Thomas Merton,
Thoughts in Solitude
Macaca Nigra 28878. jexster - 2/28/2007 9:58:37 PM The "Jesus Bones"
Who says Lent can't be fun?
Jen if UR lurking...see what the Jews are saying about us now
Don't worry...I smotheth the Blood Acursed with a Mighty Smite
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