For a number of years I've appreciated the work of Jana Reiss of #Religion News Service. I knew Jana slightly when I was a ThM student at #Princeton Seminary; like me, she was studying for #Protestant #ministry. But instead, shortly afterwards, she found a spiritual home in the #Mormon #church. Life can take us to unexpected places!
(The most active RNS reporter on Mastodon is @jackmjenkins, whose work I also enjoy!)
https://religionnews.com/2023/09/11/on-30-years-of-mormon-belonging-and-not-belonging/

#Protestant #theology quiz time: the pulpit at the Church of the Holy Ghost at Werder is decorated with rather fine reliefs of the founding theologians of the movement. Augustine is there because of his influence on #Luther, Melanchthon and #Calvin. But so is Origen. Why?!

Today in Labor History July 10, 1921: Bloody Sunday: Seventeen people died and 200 houses were destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The violence erupted the day before the beginning of a truce that was supposed to end the Irish War of Independence. As the truce approached, police launched a raid against republicans. However, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed them, killing an officer. In retaliation, Protestant loyalists attacked Catholic enclaves in west Belfast. As a result, Protestants and Catholics paramilitaries battled each other in the streets. There were also gun battles between Republicans and the police. And police also fired indiscriminately at Catholic civilians. Belfast saw almost 500 people killed from 1920–22 in political and sectarian violence related to the Irish War of Independence.

The Irish War of Independence has been portrayed in the play “The Shadow of a Gunman,” by Seán O'Casey, the 1929 novel, “The Last September,” by Elizabeth Bowen, the 1931 short story, “Guests of the Nation,” by Frank O'Connor and the more recent novels: “Troubles,” by J. G. Farrell (1970), “The Old Jest,” (1979) by Jennifer Johnston, and “The Soldier's Song,” (2010) by Alan Monaghan.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #irish #independence #Revolutionary #belfast #BloodySunday #ireland #republican #catholic #protestant #civilians

The growing conflict between objective reality and the literal nonsense found in #scripture is the primary motivation for the increasing #fanaticism and regression seen in American #Protestant #evangelicalism

#Christofascist #ChristianNationalism #religionOfHate

https://www.foxnews.com/us/one-largest-christian-churches-us-departs-southern-baptists-following-vote-ban-women-pulpit

"If Christianity were only stupid and unscientific, if its God was ignorant and kind, if it promised eternal joy to believers, and if the believers practiced the forgiveness they teach, for one, I should let the faith alone.

But there is another side to Christianity.

It is not only stupid, but malicious.

It is not only unscientific, but it is heartless.

Its God is not only ignorant, but infinitely cruel.

It not only promises the faithful an eternal reward, but declares that nearly all of the children of men, imprisoned in the dungeons of God, will suffer eternal pain.

This is the savagery of Christianity.

This is why I hate its unthinkable God, its impossible Christ, its inspired lies, and its selfish, heartless heaven." -- Robert Green Ingersoll The Duluth Evening Herald Tuesday November 26, 1895 Page 2, Column 2:

https://ia800503.us.archive.org/24/items/oct1189509dulu/oct1189509dulu.pdf

#Atheism #Banthebible #Catholic #Christ #Church #ClergyAbuse #God #Jesus #Pope #Protestant #Religion #Vatican

Germany: Catholic Church loses half a million members June 28, 2023

The flood of people leaving the German Catholic Church has accelerated, breaking another new record in 2022. Numerous sexual abuse scandals are believed to be in part to blame.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-record-numbers-of-catholics-leaving-the-church/a-66058149

#Atheism #Banthebible #Catholic #Christ #Church #ClergyAbuse #God #Jesus #Pope #Protestant #Religion #Vatican

The horror of #totalitarianism in the form of #radical_pietism in the #protestant sect of Georg #Rapp. My opinion: ultimately this form of protestantism is 2nd order #cybernetics targeting the ideal of eternal existence. According to the German WikiPedia article by the end of his life Rapp believed in his immortality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rapp

Women pastors? Baptists say no. :

Delegates rejected an appeal by Rick Warren, the retired founding pastor of Saddleback and author of the best-selling phenomenon, "The Purpose Driven Life
#Christianity #faith #femalepastors #megachurch #Protestant #RickWarren #SaddlebackChurch #SouthernBaptist #ThePurposeDrivenLife #womenpastors
#Miami #news

https://kbindependent.org/2023/06/14/women-pastors-baptists-say-no/

The religion of the majority of the population is ☦️#EasternOrthodox.

Other Christian denominations present in 🇷🇴#Romania include ✝️#RomanCatholic, ✝️#GreekCatholic, and various ✝️#Protestant ones.

There are also some other minority religions, including ✡️#Judaism, ☪️#Islam, and ☸️#BuddhisBuddhism, which are practiced by small communities within the country.

🇷🇴 #RandomFact #Facts

@histodons the #basilica in #trier is, as far as I know, the only #protestant #roman basilica.

The #basilica in #trier is, as far as I know, the only #protestant #roman basilica.

Ce dimanche, Pauline Bebe, #rabbin de la Communauté #juive libérale de Paris donnera la prédication au temple #protestant de l'#oratoiredulouvre.

Bienvenue à tous, pour manifester notre amitié entre #juifs et #chrétiens aujourd'hui !

Tim Keller, helped launch Crossbridge Church, dies at 72 :

Keller was passionate about evangelizing to people in cities, and his ministry would go on to help start 1,000 churches in 150 other cities around the world.

#bestseller #Brickell #Calvinist #Crossbridge #FelipeAssis #KeyBiscayne #Miami #NewYorkTimes #PCA #Pinecrest #PresbyterianChurchinAmerica #Protestant #theology #TimKeller #TimothyKeller

https://kbindependent.org/2023/05/19/tim-keller-helped-launch-crossbridge-church-dies-at-72/

19th century abolitionism disrupted some American Protestant denominations more than others because of differences in centralized authority & capacity to suppress dissent, rather than theological variation, according to Kristin George in the most recent Social Science History. Open access https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.1
@sociology @politicalscience @geography @economics @anthropology @religion #history #histodons #theology #Protestant #slavery #abolition #ideology #schism #SocialScienceHistory #USA

Wishing #peace and blessings to all our #Muslim sisters and brothers celebrating the festival of #Eid. As-salamu alaikum.

I was raised in a #Protestant #church which taught us that #God is still speaking, and we must continually listen and adapt in our evolving universe. The prevailing lesson was God loves all, and so should we, even when the other is foreign to us, or even frightens us. If we believe God created the wondrous complexity and diversity of the universe, then we should embrace it.

"Made in the image of #God #Transexuality in #church": a brochure for church members from the #Protestant #Church of Hesse-Nassau, #Germany (the regional church body which includes #Frankfurt on the Main), with personal stories, scientific information and theological perspectives on #diversity.
#TransRights #theology #EKHN #Hessen #kirche #LGBT+
https://kirche.social/@EDpfarrerin@muenchen.social/110164059122444297

Map of the Week: Protestant Population - find out more at http://wrld.at/motw262 #maps #cartograms #cartography #worldmapper #motw #easter #religion #christianity #belief #spirituality #protestant #god #faith

What lesson then, my brethren, did our Lord Jesus Christ wish to impress on His Church, when it pleased Him to have one castaway among the twelve, but this: that we should bear with the wicked, and refrain from dividing the body of Christ?

-Saint Augustine

#Christianity #Theology #Ecclesiology #ChurchHistory #Protestant #Reformed

#Epoch #philosophy released a new video

#MaxWeber: The #Protestant #Ethic and the #Spirit of #Capitalism

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=3VeE93CcGKk

Concert annuel de l'Armée du Salut au temple #protestant de l'Oratoire du Louvre.