Word: methodist
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...raised Methodist. Now let's say I'm spiritual. It's Marin County. We're all Buddhists up here...
...raised Methodist. Now let's say I'm spiritual. It's Marin County. We're all Buddhists up here...
...Boston Church of Christ has arrived at its current state of notoriety from rather humble origins. The story begins with a man named Kip McKean. Born in Indianapolis in 1954, McKean first turned to religion as a high school student in Central Florida. There he joined a growing Methodist church that “encouraged a simple faith in the inspiration and inherence of the Bible,” he explains in an 1992 autobiographical essay entitled “Revolution Through Restoration.” A few years later, while a first-year student at the University of Florida...
There was a time in America when a spiritual journey meant a long, stormy crossing of the soul, an exploration mapped by Scripture and led by clergy through the family church. Catholic you were born and Catholic you died, or Methodist, or Jew... Today, a quiet revolution is taking place that is changing not only the religious habits of millions of Americans but the way churches go about recruiting members to keep their doors open. Increasing numbers of baby boomers who left the fold years ago are turning religious again, but many are traveling from church to church or faith...
...each other and seek forgiveness for the hurt they have inflicted. "The church is always present during a death, but here we are with a divorce, an overwhelmingly painful thing, and the church hides its head in the sand," says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, 69, a retired Methodist minister who co-wrote a paper in 1976 examining Christian divorce rituals...