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Church-based pharmacy meets needs of
seniors
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Medicines for the pharmacy come from doctors' samples, while the
pharmacists donate their time and volunteers sort the pills into glass jars
and label them. Those asking for their prescriptions to be filled have to
fill out forms making sure they really need the ministry. |
Religious leaders sign "Commitment to Global Peace"
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Religious
leaders gathered for the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious were not required to sign the statement, but organizers hoped most of the
assembled leaders will endorse its principles. The statement includes 11 promises to work for global peace, education and the
abolition of nuclear weapons, among other things. The summit, has drawn fire from
critics who said organizers bowed to Chinese pressure to exclude the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million
Tibetan Buddhists and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The largest
protestant denomination in the US, the Southern Baptist
Convention, was not welcome, either. |
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Unity Gives Way to Dissension at U.N. Religious Summit
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"...some of the public politeness evaporated when, after two days, the
four-day summit, which ended Thursday, began the hard work of
discussing how religious communities can tackle such problems as
poverty, reconciliation and peace-making, and environmental
degradation." |
An Invitation to Sabbath: Rediscovering a Gift
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Report of the Work Group on Sabbath Keeping to the 212th General Assembly.
"There is a deep need today to rediscover the gift of Sabbath. The need declares itself in the most intimate places of the human heart and in the broadest spheres of social and economic interchange..." |
Christianity Today editorial:
The Christian Divorce Culture
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"We're not sending a strong enough signal that divorce is a sin... divorce is not just a therapeutic problem but a moral one" |
Outlook Guest Viewpoint
Closing the Back Door of the Church
by Gustav Nelson
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"Inactive members are the Achilles heel of the program church. They are
waiting to go out the back door." |
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Reflections
by new TAMFS "Evangelist"
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Rev.
Annie Petker is joining Jane Spahr's group That All May Freely
Serve as "Minister of Evangelism and Outreach" for
Northern California.
"...as I walk out through the doors of the church tomorrow following
worship, I will, until our denomination changes its polity, no longer be
able to serve as an installed pastor since I have come out as a
lesbian... I lean forward with anticipation to God's justice being fully
realized within our denomination." |
Ongoing debate on Jesus and the GAC statement
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Rev. Dean C. Waldt finds yesterday's submissions by Prof. Gene TeSelle
and Rev. Doug King to be insulting and misleading. "...those
who adhere to twenty centuries of doctrinal orthodoxy are not
the "wrathful Right". They are the faithful
disciples of Jesus Christ." |
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Deborah
Milam Berkley -- "It is much harder to stand by your faith, to love those of other faiths, and yet to be ready to share with them Christ's good news of real life, of salvation from death. It's uncomfortable to do that; it's frowned on in today's society. But it is much more loving." |
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Dr. James O. Pitts, III is not happy with yesterday's contributions to this
discussion by Witherspooners Prof. Gene TeSelle and Rev. Doug
King. "I used to think that the "Witherspooners" were a creative, visionary, and fair minded group..." |
INDEX of the "Jesus Debate" -- news releases, statements by denominational leaders -- responses from across the church.
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