Posts Tagged ‘Authority

Christians often check their inspiration with clergy. I was always being asked questions such as “Is it all right to cremate?” or “Will the Lutheran Church support my conscientious objection to the war?”  At the beginning of my ministry people were seeking continuity with tradition they regarded as the wisdom of the past. I was [...]

Bob suggests we’ll always have false prophets, because we’ll always have people looking for religious interpretations that support their preconceived ideas and prejudices. I think we are bound to have more, because of the way modern media uses words.  We are leaving the age of the printing press when people saw books as “hard copy’ [...]


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  • Fritz Foltz: Lupe sent the following email that I think is helpful: This week you raised a very interesting issue [...]
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  • jmaldon: Pastor Fritz has pointed in the past that charismatic preachers claim reliving the primitive church. [...]