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Bush to meet with Northern Ireland leaders - The White House- msnbc ...
Northern Ireland Protestant and Catholic leaders will meet with President Bush at the White House today.
Belfast police colluded in killings - Europe- msnbc.com
Police intelligence officers covered up at least 10 killings and other crimes committed by Protestant outlaws who were on the payroll as informants, an investigation found Monday.
Louisiana - Democrats - Exit Polls- msnbc.com
Protestant / Attend weekly: 13: 37: 53: Protestant / Do not attend weekly: 9: 41: 39: Catholic / Attend weekly: 20: 43: 54: Catholic / Do not attend weekly: 14: 44: 47: All Others: 43: 30: 65
Utah - Democrats - Exit Polls- msnbc.com
Protestant / Attend weekly: 26: 28: 6: 64: Protestant / Do not attend weekly: 20: 45-55: Catholic / Attend weekly: 5---Catholic / Do not attend weekly: 7---All Others: 41: 38: 3: 56
Survey: U.S. religious landscape in flux - Faith- msnbc.com
Survey: U.S. religious landscape in flux Poll finds Protestant churches in decline, unaffiliated ranks growing
Tom Cruise — ‘the Goebbels of Scientology’? - Gossip- msnbc.com
The German Protestant Church has compared Cruise to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and that he is using his fame to publicize his faith, the sometimes controversial ...
Poll: Protestant majority in U.S. eroding - U.S. news- msnbc.com
A survey released Tuesday found that the United States will no longer be a majority Protestant nation in years to come, due to a precipitous decline in affiliation with many ...
California - Democrats - Exit Polls- msnbc.com
Protestant / Attend weekly: 6: 49: 12: 39: Protestant / Do not attend weekly: 11: 49: 8: 40: Catholic / Attend weekly: 13: 70: 4: 26: Catholic / Do not attend weekly: 20: 64: 3: 33
Data sketch Protestant clergy sex abuse - Life- msnbc.com
The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually ...
Protestantism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Protestantism encompasses the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated with the doctrines of the Reformation. Protestant doctrine, in contradistinction to that of ...
N. Ireland riots subside - Europe- msnbc.com
Protestant outlaws backed off Tuesday from riots that have ravaged much of Belfast and other Northern Ireland towns for three nights, but Britain planned to declare at least one ...
Protestant Reformed Churches in America
The Protestant Reformed Churches are Reformed, Calvinistic Churches which maintain the doctrines of grace and hold to the three forms of Unity: the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic ...
Protestant Survey
Exit polls on race, religion May 28, 2008 / courier-journal.com - / Add comment. show a staggering racial divide in the Kentucky primary. Hillary Clinton won by a 72-23 margin over ...
Protestant - Wiktionary
any of several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church
Protestant - definition of Protestant by the Free Online Dictionary ...
Definition of Protestant in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of Protestant. Pronunciation of Protestant. Translations of Protestant. Protestant synonyms, Protestant antonyms.
Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in the Holy Roman Empire that began in 1517, though its roots lie further back in time. The Reformation involved cultural, economic ...
Protestant - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Definitions of Protestant at Dictionary.com. ... 1. any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
Protestant - Definition at the #1 Online Dictionary
Definition of Protestant: ... Prot·es·tant (prät ′ əs tənt; for n. 3 & adj. 2, also prō tes ′ tənt, prə-)
Protestant -- Beliefnet.com
Protestant Homepage ... Everyone feels afraid sometimes, but fear does not need to be a constant companion. Click through our gallery of Bible verses for words of faith to overcome ...
Protestant Student Ministries
listmeta.sedescription. Protestant Ministries @ NYU has compiled a list of various Protestant congregations in the area and around the city which might be of interest to those in ...
The Babylonian captivity of Protestant seminaries...
(Dr. Hollinger) will be joined in ministry by his wife of 36 years, Dr. Mary Ann Hollinger, who is Dean of External Programs and Assistant Professor of Family Studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. ...
The End of Protestant America? Not so sure…
I think that the decline in Protestant Church membership is the failure to be relevant. The perception of the world changed for all Americans with Sputnik, going to the moon, the Cold War, drugs, and permissiveness. ...
Why I’m still protestant
Ultimately, this makes me Protestant. It’s not that I somehow think written revelation is better than orally received revelation, or that the church (or elders/bishops) is unnecessary to the mission of God in the world, ...
Ross Douthat on Joseph Bottom on the Death of Protestant America
Recently Joseph Bottum wrote a very interesting essay in First Things entitled “The Death of Protestant America: A Political theory of the Protestant Mainline”, PSA+ turned me on to Ross Douthat’s response over at the Atlantic, ...
On Calvin, Luther, and the Protestant tradition of Augustine
(In response to a friend) The “we” would be Protestants. Most Protestant confessions look like chick tracts for Augustinianism. So that would be neither of the possible answers provided. Neither one person alone deciding their way nor ...
Catholics Invite Hindu-Jewish-Protestant-Muslim Leaders For A ...
According to Father Charles T. Durante, Pastor of Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Church of Carson City, it will include dialogue among leaders of Muslim, Protestant, Hindu, and Jewish faiths besides Catholic. The Conference will be held ...
The Protestant Revolution
Historian Tristram Hunt looks at how Protestantism has affected people's lives in The Protestant Revolution, a new, four-part series for BBC Four. This is a story of a revolution which has affected every person in the West, ...
1st Cir Denied PFR, No Persecution Shown for Indonesian Protestant ...
Sinurat v. Mukasey (8/8/08). LYNCH, Selya and Howard. The First Circuit found that Sinurat failed to establish both past persecution and an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution on account of his religious views and ...
Protestant Infallibility vs. Catholic Infallibility
A reader recently emailed with this question:. I have been dialogging with some reformed brothers regarding the authority of the church. If you have time and the desire to do so, you can check out the discussion on their blog: ...
Exit 7, off Route 95
One of my favorite New England towns is Portsmouth, NH. It’s about 45 minutes from Boston, situated along the Piscataqua River just over from Kittery, ME. Unfortunately, the town has been subsumed by Yuppie Culture (Life is Good, ...
Six wrongs of the Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation, which happened in the 1500s, has been praised by many in today’s churches as a momentous occasion where Christians took a stand against the false doctrines and abuses instituted under the Roman Catholic ...
Death Parts United Hearts
I wrote this miniscule essay for work and it’s never seen the light of day. Let me know what you think:. Are you wearing a ring at this moment? What kind of ring is it? If you think about it, rings are inherently symbolic. ...
Mormon and Protestant Scripture - Follow up
In an earlier post, I discussed the canonization of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants in 1835. I mentioned that the comments made by those present at the August 1835 meeting where the book was approved, indicated a distinction between the ...
The Protestant and Catholic Version of Infalliabilty
Canterbury Tales has a interesting post looking at the subject from the classical Reformed position at Protestant Infallibility vs. Catholic Infallibility.
Assist News - Problems Continue for Protestant Church in Uzbekistan
A Protestant church in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent has been denied legal status four times since Oct.[...]
On Love in Heaven: Response to Protestant Theologian
In response to the post Are Catholics Complete Imbeciles (for believing in the Communion of Saints and praying to the saints), 'Protestant Theologian' was kind enough to leave a comment ending: "I don't want to be in God's house so that ...
The death of Protestant America?
Here’sa rather heavy item for you to ponder on a Monday morning: there’sa long and fascinating post at On the Square tracing the decline and fall of Protestant America—that is, the vanishing influence of mainstream Protestant ...
William Maginn and the Decline of the Protestant Ascendancy.
Old habits of authority have made it a fixed persuasion in Ireland among the Protestants that one Protestant could beat five Papists, and of course I have no fear for the result. Really, without jest, we are woefully insulted… our ...
The Death of Protestant America
First Things, a highbrow journal of culture, politics and religion, has an insightful article about the decline and possible extinction of Protestant denominations in the United States. It is well worth your read, be you Anglican, ...
RICK WARREN IS SAYING PROTESTANT REFORMERS LUTHER AND CALVIN WERE ...
The doctrine of salvation is no minor issue and Warren also happens to be a pastor with the Southern Baptist Convention, which is still—at least for now—reputed to be a Protestant denomination. Further Warren has also even claimed he is ...
The Protestant Sacrament
Protestants changed the definition somewhat because of the desire to get away from the perceived ecclesiocentrism of Catholicism. Definitions differ depending on who you ask, but most Protestants would tell you that a sacrament is a ...
Catholic Bible Thumping and Protestant Divine Order: The Men Who ...
It imports into that context language and philosophical concepts central to the Catholic sexual ethic, but absent from Protestant thought about sexual morality until recently, when the Protestant tradition began to select some (but far ...
"He is Protestant in temperament and an unforgiving moralist. He ...
“He is Protestant in temperament and an unforgiving moralist. He drops names. He lay in a coma for a week after a motorcycle accident. He can be nasty. He has been known to suffer hopeless crushes. In late adolescence he was committed ...
Natural Family Planning, Radical Openness to Life Gains Ground in ...
By Jenna Murphy August 11, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com) - After decades of division over issues surrounding fertility and the moral issues inherent to procreation, many protestants are now turning away from the contraceptive culture and ...
The Death of Protestant America
The article written by Joseph Bottum presents a case that cannot be ignored, that is, the unified voice of "Mainline Protestants" is no longer influencing the political realm of the American politosphere, consequently leaving that space ...
Natural Family Planning, Radical Openness to Life Gains Ground in ...
After decades of division over issues surrounding fertility and the moral issues inherent to procreation, many protestants are now turning away from the contraceptive culture and towards Natural Family Planning (NFP), a completely ...
Natural Family Planning, Radical Openness to Life Gains Ground in ...
Protestant academics like Reverend Amy Laura Hall, a Methodist minister and associate professor at Duke Divinity School, are beginning to write on reproductive issues and are finding themselves swamped with questions from earnestly ...
Trick questions for Protestants
Bryan Cross has posted a dozen trick questions for Protestants. The form of a question tends to dictate the form of the answer. Bryan’s questions are laden with certain assumptions. Therefore, it’s not a matter of simply answering his ...
Natural Family Planning, Radical Openness to Life Gains Ground in ...
LifeSiteNews.com reports: After decades of division over issues surrounding fertility and the moral issues inherent to procreation, many protestants are now turning away from the contraceptive culture and towards Natural Family Planning ...
A Protestant Response to Michael Garten's "From Reliability to ...
The goal of this post is to respond to the defeaters to the Protestant position and to show that the Protestant is still rationally entitled to hold to Sola Scriptura. Michael writes: "Most Protestants don’t want to say awful things ...
Not A Sports Fan
I love my mother to death and sometimes she comes out with some unintential hysterical comments. Yesterday we were driving by the local Dunkin Donuts where the sign read, “Win a lifesize Papelbon. Inquire within. ...
Marriage as Sacrament: Pre-Trent, Catholic and Protestant marriage
I’ve posted before on traditional Jewish wedding ceremonies (here). I found it interesting at the time that the betrothal (engagement), which grants legal rights , is guaranteed by (among other things) sexual intercourse. ...
Churches Congregational Christian Protestant Practicing ...
Congregational church is the term often used to describe the churches of Protestant Christians. In the United States, the Pilgrims successfully set up the Plymouth Colony. Another major chunk of the Congregationalists was the Puritans ...
Marriage as Sacrament: Pre-Trent, Catholic and Protestant marriage
... is associated with consummation of the marriage. Prior to the Council of Trent in 1545, the Roman Catholic ceremony was also of a similar form. Continue reading 'Marriage as Sacrament: Pre-Trent, Catholic and Protestant marriage'...
Here I Stand - Excommunicating a Protestant RULER...
1)If excommunication of a Protestant RULER (Luther or Calvin if Luther is dead) occurs, applies BOTH consecuences of excommunicating a ruler (-1 card) and consecuences of excomunicating a reformer (reformer and debater counters off map ...
Protestant Miracles
I call this section "Protestant" not because Protestants are necessarily involved in all of these examples, in face some may involve Catholics, but because most of them do not have the rigor or backing of the Catholic miracle machinery. ...
Church Authority: Argument 2
This post is an argument that my presentation of one Protestant view of the Church as reliable in how it forms its beliefs may be valid, and not a straw-man. The argument is two-part. First I will produce examples of what I consider to ...
Confessions of an ex-Protestant on What Protestants Like.
This is true to the point that it would be ridiculous to say otherwise seeing how may many books, movies, posters, speakers, tirades, wars, and conflicts have sprouted in the name of Protestant and Catholic justification. ...
Protestant-Orthodox Dialogue
I suppose that being Protestant for some three decades plus, I do not quite see the problematic envisioned by my co-blogodoxers in engaging Protestants in dialogue. Indeed, far more of my present friendships are among Protestants, ...
Re: Thoughts On Protestant-OC Dialogue
I would take it even further to say that it is impossible to present the faith of either Orthodoxy or Catholicism in a non-offensive way to Protestants without either compromising our own faith or at least withholding parts of it. ...
Thoughts On Protestant-OC Dialogue
With the exception of a fine little collection of Enlightenment/post-Enlightenment philosophers, my exposure to the “protestant faith” (loosely defined, I suppose, as a faith in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity which rejects the ...
Thoughts on RC/OC and Protestant Dialogue 2
This time, though, it wasn’t within the Orthodox Church, but between us and some Protestants who happen to be great friends of mine. It turns out (who would’ve thought) that they are offended that we have the “audacity” to make claims ...
How It Feels
My job:
THE REAL PROTESTANT ETHIC?
“We Are Not an Egalitarian Society”*. SHAZAM! And a door as big as the Ritz Should slam open with a growl of age-old hinges; Or an orphan thunderbolt out of a cornflower sky Smash clouds as fluffy as babies’ hair ...
Protestant Church: It's been a while.
Ever since moving to eastern Europe, we've visited mostly Eastern Orthodox churches and mosques. This was our first time visiting a Protestant church in over a year. I can't believe I just posted about this.
Feast of the Assumption: On the Blessed Virgin and the Church
Strikingly different from what I learned as a Protestant. The following is from Lumen Gentium, the entire document is well worth reading but for today this will suffice….. 60. There is but one Mediator as we know from the words of the ...
Hooray for the Pope
A Protestant perspective from Charley Reese.
P* replied to the discussion Incorporating Hebrew Roots into a ...
P* P* replied to the discussion Incorporating Hebrew Roots into a Protestant Lifestyle.
Why "Evangelical" instead of "Protestant"?
Aren't they basically the same? Just curious.
A Protestant on the Pope
I was happy to see that the cardinals picked a conservative, Joseph Ratzinger, to be the new pope. As Pope Benedict XVI, he can be expected to hew to the line of keeping the church as a witness to truth, regardless of what modernists ...
The Only Way To Cross
This is a shout out to my Augusta Brother. Yup, he’s into antique cars and clocks but growing up he was (and still is) interested in ocean liners. Pleeze…he was into the Titantic before Leonardo. He had (has) tons of books on the ...
The Protestant Wind
This month marks the 420th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This event was commemorated by medals, one of which bore the inscription Flavit Jehovah et Dissipati Sunt (with the word "Jehovah" in Hebrew letters), ...
Jonathan Edwards on Justification by Faith-More Protestant or ...
Jonathan Edwards on Justification by Faith-More Protestant or Catholic? by Gerald R. McDermott Evangelicals often consider Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) to be "their" theologian, the one thinker in the history of Christian thought who ...
A Protestant Response to Michael Garten’s “Arguments for the ...
The Purpose of this post is to respond to a second post by Michael Garten at the Eastern Orthodox blog Well of Questions. This second post by Michael gives additional arguments for church infallibility. These are five smaller arguments ...
The Un-Protestant Jonathan Edwards?
On the other hand, Edwards, the greatest Reformed theologian between Calvin and Barth, systematically integrates justification and sanctification, faith and works, election and perseverance, forensic righteousness and mystical ...
Book Review: "Roman Catholicism" Part 1.
With such words of encouragement and irenic spirit Nettles paints the usual Protestant distorted figure of the early Church. The Catholic Council of Nicea is praised for unpacking the difficult doctrines surrounding the person of Christ ...
Ladenburg Protestant Church
Rainer Ebert posted a photo:. Ladenburg Protestant Church.
Gibbs, Ch. 5 “The Protestant Mind-set and Urban Reality”
“The ministry challenge is to track these social networks, provide personal support for their church members, and remain alert to the significant issues which are surfacing in each context” (Gibbs, 163). Piece of cake. ...
A Protestant Zenith [Topic: Puritan Poetics]
As contemporary references to them demonstrate, though these psalms were not published for over two centuries, they were well known to the extensive literary and court circles of these great families" (Lewalski, Protestant Poetics, p. ...
Protestant “Verses” Catholic?
A Catholic school teacher recently posed this question to me: “Protestants always have signs, t-shirts, and the like with John 3:16, so it seems that for them that is the one definitive verse of the Bible. ...
From Mist to Mystagogia
Recently I have been reflecting on the nature of the Protestant church, and to be honest, the thing still perplexes me. Pierre Bayle is quoted as saying: “I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of ...
Dear (would-be) Protestant Apologists:
I would like to ask 14 kindnesses of all you Protestants out there. 1. The Bible is the book of the Catholic Church, please do not treat us (Catholics) like you have a better or more accurate understanding of our Church’s book than we ...
On hierarchy or lack thereof
It was founded as a Protestant seminary, and Man’s usurpation of God’s role is inherent (if only implicitly) in Protestantism. In Catholic Christianity, not even the Pope can change the Truth; in Protestant Christianity, every single ...
PWOC Kickoff, August 28, 2008
Invites all women to our Fall Kick-off Program.
i, a protestant, at the coptic church
I am a mustang seated in the wet stands of a horse show. I am an old stray at a dog show smelling the slack leashes. Enfogged and drizzling the priest walks past. I am Absalom’s ghost – an unsensed, ebbing essence – jealous only ...
Luis Palau Ecumenical Evangelism Exposed
If you're Protestant, he wants you to be energized in your Protestant faith - whatever your denomination is. He's not out to proselytize people to a particular church... The timing is right for this type of ecumenical festival, ...
LA Times asserted Obama "probably can't erase the God gap," but ...
But Barabak did not note that in that poll, Pew found that Obama leads McCain 88 percent to 6 percent among "Black Protestant[s]." Moreover, Barabak asserted that Obama "trail[ed] McCain among ... non-Hispanic Catholics," but Barabak ...
What Catholics and Protestants share
Listen to one of my favorite songs of his - Hey Joe (mp3)There are times when even a fan of eccumenism like myself wonders if the divide between Catholic and Protestant can ever be bridged, if we truly have more to disagree about than ...
Look Like A Sommelier
Good and Cheap! Good and Cheap! It seems like I’m always writing about beer. Well, I do like my beer but I partake in grape libations as well. When it comes to wine, I have a method of choosing:. * Under $25 (Yup, I’m cheap.) ...
There It Is: Ephesians 3:16-20
There are many times when I am not able to say much at the end of the day on this blog because I am drained by the day. So I figure, what better way to close the day than with a scripture? Simply put. God’s word. ...
Only 2 more days...sniff, sniff
Hello World, I don't know who really reads this blog anymore, but I'm sitting here in my hotel room a little sentimental and sad...I just finished breakfast at the buffet...and am now getting ready to start the packing process of ...
A Quick Note
... is either a product of procrastination or sleep-blogging. Assuming I sleep, that is. © Mark for Protestant Pontifications, 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Meta. Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh.
Is the Reformation Over?
Is the Reformation over, my Protestant brethren? Was the Reformation primarily a reaction to “backsliding”? Are Sproul, MacArthur, Horton and White pleading with a people who are jumping ship in mass? Because contemporary Protestants ...
Where in the World is the Church?: Part I, The Invisible Church
As I have been hinting at, whether one adopts a Catholic or Protestant view of church authority is largely contingent upon whether he sees the church as primarily visible or invisible. In other words, before you figure out what the ...
Whither the Christian Right? -- A Guest Post by Professor Allan ...
As I point out in my new book, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, Warren is important because he represents the new face of a changed white Protestant evangelical leadership that is transforming ...
In Dialogue
So Catholics wonder how it is that the very people who championed Sola Scriptura can believe so differently from the likes of protestants today? How is it Luther can find in Scripture the PV of Mary but you can't Mr Swan? ...
Petrol bombs thrown at Protestant homes in Derry
Police in the North are investigating an apparent sectarian attack on Protestant homes in Derry overnight.
Petrol bombs thrown at Protestant homes in Derry
Police in the North are investigating an apparent sectarian attack on Protestant homes in Derry overnight.Just after midnight, three petrol bombs were thrown into the Fountain estate in Derry city fro...
Happy Birthday, Ben!!
Don’t forget to blow out 175 candles for our 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison! Grandson of Benjamin HENRY Harrison, our beloved 9th Prez, the other Ben was only 5 feet, 6 inches tall, earning him the moniker, “Little Ben,” by his ...
The Death of Protestant America
The article is here. John Piper makes observations here.
What Are We Reclaiming Paul From?
When Protestant/Evangelical people speak today, the idea of scripture alone seems to inherently deny the relevance of context. The context of the Reformation from which this idea emerged is lost. Even the context of scripture is lost to ...
Opinion: Barry Lynn/’Americans United’ Insult Rick Warren and ...
While turning the dial (even the expression dates me in the digital age)I happened upon the “Diane Rehm Show” just in time to hear her guests opine on the now famous Saddleback Forum, where evangelical Protestant Pastor Rick Warren ...
REVIEW: The History of Christianity I - RTS on iTunes U
What of being a Protestant? There were no Protestants in Constantine’s day, there were oly Christians. SO praising a “minority” as not “Protestant” and not an “Anglo Saxon” and yuet important to The Church is so fatally flawed that no ...
Not the only clueless one
Last year, on P.'s first day, I intrepidly led my kids and in-laws through the village to the "Protestant church behind the school" as it was described to me. Now, in all your German classes, you learn that there's a Catholic church, ...
The Trinity Reformed Church Statement on Roman Catholicism ...
The Catholic Church likewise recognizes the Trinitarian baptisms performed in Protestant churches. Not long ago (as one of friends who is an elder in the CREC tells me) there was debate within this confederation concerning the ...
The dead Protestant church
Via this unsettling post at John Piper’s Desiring God blog, prompted by this article. I pray that the younger evangelicals who are pondering where to put their energies will learn from history that doctrinal accommodation brings larger ...
INFORMATION ON PRESBYTERIAN / PROTESTANT CHURCH SERVICES AND ...
Holy Trinity Presbytery 26, Norglen Gardens, Belfast, County Antrim BT11 8EL Tel: 028 9059 0986 Second Broughshane Presbyterian Church 3, Raceview Rd, Broughshane, Ballymena, County Antrim BT42 4JL Tel: 028 2586 2333 ...
Carol replied to the discussion Incorporating Hebrew Roots into a ...
Carol Carol replied to the discussion Incorporating Hebrew Roots into a Protestant Lifestyle.
Imagine If Dr. Martin Luther King’s Name Had Been Dr. Adolf Hitler ...
The hereditary monarchs and petty rulers became the supreme bishops of the Protestant Church in their lands. Thus in Prussia the Hohenzollern King was the head of the Church. In no country with the exception of Czarist Russia did the ...
History of the Episcopal Church Lesson 3
The Episcopal Church opened three seminaries in the 1820’s General Seminary, The Protestant Episcopal Seminary of Virginia, and a department in Kenyon College in Ohio. These schools helped produce a larger number of candidates for the ...
There It Is: Zechariah 4:10
Yesterday evening during my quiet time, I took a moment to be silent and speak to God about what He wanted me to read and receive. Not too long after I shut my mouth, I opened the Bible to the book of Zechariah. ...
Where in the World is the Church? - Part II: The Visible Church
In our last post we looked at the Protestant doctrine of the Invisible Church, noting that the Reformed understanding of ecclesiastical authority either gives rise to, or emerges from, its view that the church is primarily invisible. ...
"The Death of Protestant America"
Joseph Bottum wrote a great article on the decline of Protestantism in America. It's a cross between an article and a study/paper, and thus lacks in humorous and light content. However, dry as it is, it is quite informative and worth ...
Mainline Protestant Denominations Plumeting
Justin Taylor’s blog points out some staggering statistics:. In 1965, 50% of the American population affiliated themselves with the Northern Baptists, United Church of Christ, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, or Presbyterians. ...
THE PAPAL POWER BEHIND THE IRISH POTATOE FAMINE
Victoria, whose prime minister was a Protestant freemason, was. used by the Order to kill many thousands of Irish Protestants as. well as Roman Catholics. However the Jesuits guided the fleeing. Irish Catholics into the US, ...
parenting exhaustion, dog days of Summer, Ronnie Wood, etc.
I think I'm in the dog days of Summer. Don't know exactly what that means, but I think it has to do with oppressive heat, boredom, and drudgery. I love these kiddos, but man, it's hard work. My exciting tours, travels, and vacations are ...
Martin Luther - Birth of the Protestant Reformation
This spectacle incensed Luther and the Protestant Reformation found its beginning in his anger with the church. Luther went on to protest the corruption of the church which ultimately lead to his excommunication. ...
One other difference of (Protestant) Christianity
(Protestant) Christians, however, are ready to suffer and even die for God ultimately and other saints. ""Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son ...
Is Jensenism actually Christian?
What Franklin describes of his opponents is true of the classic Protestant orthodoxy of Luther, Calvin and Cranmer. His quarrel is really with them. These thinkers saw themselves as cleaning the scholastic and Aristotelian dust from the ...
Named for Protestant Reformer !!
Calvin and Hobbes, named for Protestant reformer John Calvin and philosopher Thomas Hobbes, debuted in 1985.