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Here's something I wrote on the subject a while back. The original thread can be found here: http://www.christianforums.com/t7307834/ Per request: Thoughts on Women's Ordination... ...and women in roles of authority in the New Testament. The ordination of women has never been an issue...

Hi Bob. What you said above didn't sound familiar to me, so I checked the relevant passages, and couldn't find a reference to David entering Jerusalem on a donkey. Can you cite chapter and verse for me?

'Attaboy! Way to go! You da man! :thumbsup::clap::thumbsup: Take your right hand, reach up over your left shoulder and give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back.

So...how'd it go?

Amen, bro. And God bless you and the people who benefit from your work!

Those people being the ones who did not participate in God's distributive justice. (I wait with 'bated breath).

They can call themselves what they want. If you called a horse's tail a leg, a horse would still have only four legs. I read somewhere recently (Christian Century maybe?) that Kieshnick and Bishop Hanson have met and agreed that our respective church bodies will continue to cooperate in our...

This reduces God to an automaton. Or a tyrant. And who said God glosses over the crap? And then there's the question of justice. Is God's justice punitive (i.e. giving people what they deserve) or distributive (i.e. giving people what they need). There is certainly biblical warrant for a...

I believe that death is both entirely natural and a great mystery. I do not believe that death is to be feared. I don't know what it is like to go through death. I have seen others die. It brings an end to visible suffering and pain. I believe that whatever happens to us after death is up...

For me the Christmas season begins on December 24 and ends at Epiphany. The season of pre-Christmas preparation is Advent. I'm a liturgical Grinch.

LCMC has female clergy. I don't think they are in full Communion with LC-MS. I don't see how they could be.

If it's a joke, it's too deadpan to be funny. If it's a hoax, it's convincing. There isn't a hint of a wink in the website. I'm afraid it's real. These people actually believe that they are doing the will of God.

Oh, for pity sake! This is just silly! Obama can't be the anti-christ. He's the President of the United States! He's not the Pope!* *A note to all of my Roman Catholic friends. Don't get your cinctures in a knot! This is just a joke. I'm not serious. And to anyone who...

Hi Dalexsi-- Welcome to a new leg of your faith journey. There are a few things that I would gently suggest. First, get a good academic Study Bible. Either the New Oxford Annotated Bible, or the Harper Collins Study Bible. Both have good notes and helps. Neither is written from a...

Two kinds of congregations will be directly affected by the decisions made at Churchwide Assembly: 1. Those who want to call a homosexual pastor living in a committed relationship, and, 2. Those who feel that they need to leave the ELCA. Most congregations, including the one in which I...

Who remembers the Gary Larson Far Side cartoon titled "How the Dinosaurs Really Died Out"? It showed a group of dinosaurs, huddled together, smoking cigarettes. No less far fetched than Jack Chick's take on the subject.

As I said above, we've made it past hand-holding to first base. We haven't gone all the way. We have not merged. ELCA pastors serving UMC congregations will do so on the UMC's terms and vice-versa.

No! No! It must be real. It's on the internet! :waaah:

I just spit a perfectly good cup of coffee all over my monitor!

ELCA and UMC have been holding hands for years. Looks like we finally got to first base. :D