On January 26, 2015, the first female bishop in the Church of England, the Right Rev. Libby Lane, was consecrated. A week later, Feb 2, 2015, again in the Church of England, a traditionalist bishop, the Right Rev. Phillip North, was consecrated. Who laid hands on him? Only bishops free of the defect of ordaining […]
Clergy Fight! Does the Pope need two-thirds to win…..?
Is Pope Francis going to be able to change the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrines on divorce, contraception, and even homosexuality?
Is “Heaven Is For Real” real?
How real? What kind of real? What about Near Death Experiences (NDEs)? Especially over the past fifty years millions of NDEs have been reported. Most have a similar pattern–of a kind of tunnel, of light, of serenity. What kind of real is this? What is the source, the cause, the explanation, the meaning? 1. Oxygen deprivation, as during a […]
2017: The real Roman Catholic roadblock to unity – (hint: not gay sex)
Sharing Communion by 2017 between Lutherans and Roman Catholics!? Munib Younan, LWF President: “Our intention is to arrive at 2017 with a common Roman Catholic-Lutheran declaration on Eucharistic hospitality.”[1] BUT: That’s in “…the far and ultimately unreachable distance,” stated Walter Cardinal Kasper in his official capacity as head of the Vatican department, The Pontifical Council […]
No to “Noah”?
But isn’t the film close enough? Isn’t it at least better than most Hollywood productions? Gets a useful discussion about the Bible going? The only question is: Who is God in this film? Yes, the name “the Creator” is used and the word “God” occurs. But the “Covenant God,” the God who creates a world based on the […]