Epiphany Community Church was a UU Christian church which was started in 1996 in Fenton, MI with funding from the Magi Network. It is no longer listed in the UUA congregation list. Does anyone know what happened to it? and also Epiphany Church in Owosso, Oklahoma?
Have any of you, creationists or evolutionists heard of Michael Dowd? who has a website and book titled www.thankgodforevolution.com and his wife Connie Barlow who has a similar web site www.thegreatstory.org Michael Dowd is a United Church of Christ minister and Connie is a science writer...
Luke 14:23 says: The master said: "go out to the highways and country lanes and force people to come in, to make sure my house is full". This verse is not a command of Jesus, but, rather is at the end of the parable "A man once gave a feast". In the parable a man gave a feast and invited many...
These verses say "Thus says the Lord of Hosts, "I will punish the Amalekites for what they did in opposing the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. (3) Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and...
On another thread "Can a rich church or man get into heaven?" there are people asserting that it is wrong to have wealth. How much wealth do you think is ok for a person or organization to have? If you think there is a limit to the amount a person should have, where would you set the limit? and...
I found a really funny film on youtube called "Kissing Hanks ***" About two door to door evangelists inviting people to kissing hanks *** or he'll kick the **** out of them.
It's a hilarious parody of the reasoning religious fundamentalists of all religions use to support their beliefs...
On another thread a LDS member said LDS recognizes members of other denominations as Christians but other denominations don't give Mormons the same recognition. I was wondering whether or not it really is true that LDS recognize Lutherans, Catholics, Baptists as Christians. When I spoke to two...
I know that using tools of divination to discern the will of a god is generally condemned in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahaism and Zoroastrianism, but have found some exceptions to this and was wondering what you think about this. In Acts 1:21-26 The apostles met after Judas Iscariot killed...
Awhile back Pope Benedict visited Saudi Arabia. I heard that one topic was he was negotiating with the king about him allowing christian churches to operate openly in Saudi Arabia. I think every religion should be completely free to seek converts an operate churches or temples or mosques in...
I have heard that the punishment for a Muslim who decides not to be Muslim anymore is death. The scholar I learned this from is at www.islamqa.com
Here are the articles I mean:
Islam QA - Some of the rulings on apostasy and apostates
Islam QA - Why death is the punishment for Apostasy...
Another "new religious movement" is The New Thought Movement. There is a lot of info on it at "The New Thought Movement Homepage"
New Thought Movement Home Page and Association for Global New Thought TNTM originated in the nineteenth century when Emma Curtis Hopkins, who was a Christian...