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I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.


Gene Robinson


#bringing #brought #center #church #election

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537.


Adam Nicolson


#history #marriage #sacrament #marriage

Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!


David Grachek


#inspirational #pastor #religion #religious #inspirational

Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints


Gordon B. Hinckley


#lds-church #inspirational

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.


Kurt Vonnegut


#church #come #course #daydream #god

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.


Robert McAfee Brown


#church #content #culture #house #live

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.


Margaret Smith Court


#australia #bible #church #community #days

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.


Macaulay Culkin


#bad #church #confession #done #half

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.


John Foxe


#emperor #first #persecution #place #rome

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.


Henry Louis Gates


#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been