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I have always enjoyed learning and thinking about the ways Christians are different as well as the things we share in common. In my own church I am more apt to be around people that are like-minded than to exchange with the whole panoply of Christian thought. For me, this is a place to help stay...

Or, perhaps they merely have a different opinion about the most effective way to draw people to Christ. There are a lot of different routes to arrive at the same place.

Who was it that bestowed doctors with their gifts, chemists with their wisdom? The God and Father of us all.

What in the world are transgender underclothes? :scratch:

<Post removed>. Sorry, folks, I didn't see I was in the Calvary Chapel room

Can we have "neither" as a choice? I think it is impossible to "secure" the southern border. It is simply too long to secure. Current segments of the wall are breached every day. At its best, the wall slows folks down and its sensing devices gives Border Patrol longer to get there. While Border...

Methinks somebody has not read the statement of purpose for this forum, including this part: Do not state or imply that another poster who has identified himself or herself as traditional Christian, is not in reality truly a traditional Christian because of belief, practice, or their...

Talk about touchy nerves! When I got home from the honeymoon, I learned I didn't know how to fold towels "properly." Apparently, direction of the folds is quite important. It seems mom had been folding wrong all her years and, therefore, taught me wrong. My new bride took me to towel folding...

It is not working for him. He is still doing laundry. He needs to incompetent harder. ^_^

On the other hand, you have a husband who does laundry and puts it away. :clap:

On the positive side, such a financial loss would be good for Mr. Trump's tax picture. :sunglasses:

Once again, data analytics can be very useful to a church for trend analysis without requiring personal information from individual members. Some may find this example interesting from the "Report of Episcopal Congregations and Missions (otherwise known as the Parochial Report)" tracked by each...

There is a lot of data analytics useful to a church that could be gathered anonymously through blind surveys. I would also be cautious about putting too much of my identifiable information into anybody's database if I had a chance to control it.

I once worked with a private Christian faith-based boarding school that employed a series of ordained Christian chaplains. We served a diverse population and respected those served. For non-Christian students, our chaplain facilitated connections with Muslim and Jewish families and saw to it...

No, because I have other differences regarding the papacy, closed communion, its later additions to the faith, and its handling of abuse by clergy. I could live with its prohibition of female clergy. I don't agree with it, but I could live with it. It is not the "stopper" for me that other...

Perhaps that is the same dilemma St. Paul faced in the early church for the same reason: the prevailing culture in those bodies would not allow it without division.

I recently moved to a community where its Episcopal Church is staffed with two female priests. It is vibrant, thriving, and growing. The sermons I hear from the pulpit are among the best I have ever heard, and I have heard many. I have no doubt St. Paul spoke what was needed in that time and...

It is intolerance that could make your life impossible...or hers. Good relationships tolerate differences. If you or she can't respect and allow the differences you have it will be tough. If you can respect and allow differences it can work. But it must be mutual.

No, we're not there yet.

Mom never knew much about platforms. She always voted for who she thought was a, "good man." (No women in that day). She always trusted a good person to do the right thing, leastwise as best they were able. Mom may have been on to something.