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President Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington yesterday. His own denomination—the United Church of Christ—has been teasingly described as “Unitarians considering Christ.” I don’t know how much he is considering Jesus, but he sure is quiet about it if he is. Even among Christians, the president seems to believe in a Christless Christianity.
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President Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington yesterday. His own denomination—the United Church of Christ—has been teasingly described as “Unitarians considering Christ.” I don’t know how much he is considering Jesus, but he sure is quiet about it if he is. Even among Christians, the president seems to believe in a Christless Christianity.
He [...]
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Ken Blackwell Jesus, Obama, Prayer, United Church of Christ
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Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church’s controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And while the First Family intended to find a local church to attend when they moved to Washington, concerns about crowds and displacing regular worshippers has prevented them from finding a new religious home during their first year here.
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Whatever happened to Puritans, the 17th-century radicals and religious zealots who are credited with founding the country, giving us its work ethic and being the bulk of the Pilgrims who gave us the first Thanksgiving?
Contemporary scholars say their keystone concept of religious community contributing to create a better society lives on in modern denominations, including Congregationalists, United Church of Christ, Low Church Anglicans, some strands of Presbyterians, Salvation Army, Methodists, United Reformed Church, Society of Friends (Quakers) and, some say, some of today’s evangelicals.
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(author unknown) Anglican, Denominations, Evangelical, Evangelicals, Methodist, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ
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(AP) – WATERBURY, Conn. – In a twist on the tradition of the church collection plate, two local churches are giving away money. Each Sunday in November, members of First Congregational Church in New Milford and South Congregational United Church of Christ in Waterbury are selected by random drawing to receive a crisp, $50 bill during worship service. The money parishioners…
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CNN commentator Lou Dobbs abruptly announced that he was quitting the
news network last night, but not before he included misleading
information about the United Church of Christ and its support for the
interfaith media justice coalition, So We Might See. In October,
through its website, the coalition asked individuals to sign onto a
letter to the Federal Communications Commission calling for a public
hearing into the effects of anti-immigrant hate speech in the media.
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For the Cleveland-based United Church of Christ, a graying denomination that has lost more than 40 percent of its members since the 1960s, Barack Obama is a godsend.
Church leaders expect more people to come knocking on UCC doors as their most widely known member raises awareness of the denomination through his Democratic presidential campaign.
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(author unknown) God, Obama, People, United Church of Christ
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A United Nations’ chief policy officer has told a United Church of Christ organisation that the way malaria has been tackled may model responses to the global economic crisis.
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Responding to a widespread advertising campaign recently started by the City of Chicago, representatives of St. John’s United Church of Christ (the owner of St. Johannes Cemetery) accused Chicago of lying to the public and family members of those buried at St. Johannes Religious Cemetery near O’Hare Airport.
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(AP) – LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Across Jefferson County, small congregations in older urban neighborhoods have faced the stark reality of declining membership. By 2006, for instance, St. Peter’s Evangelical United Church of Christ in the Russell neighborhood was down to 15 active members, most of them elderly or commuters from elsewhere. Endowment funds left by deceased members, which had kept the church solvent, were running out. The church, with its rich history, had to decide if it was willing to accept a radically different future-or no future at all. One-third of Americans and Kentuckians do not attend church regularly, according to…
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Filipino Manny Pacquiao, who has become the world’s welterweight boxing champion after knocking out Britain’s Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas, is also an evangelical Christian messenger to the world, say Philippine church leaders, reports Ecumenical News International.
“Pacquiao has always displayed a dependence on God in all his fights, which is a good Christian quality that has made our champion humble and gentle despite his success,” the Rev. Simplicio Dang-awan Jr of the United Church of Christ… >>
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United Church of Christ pastor Robin Meyers argues that Christians should shift their focus from worshipping Christ as Savior and instead “start following Jesus.” He spoke with Mary Jacobs.
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United Church of Christ pastor Robin Meyers argues that Christians should shift their focus from worshipping Christ as Savior and instead “start following Jesus.” He spoke with Mary Jacobs.
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(author unknown) Jesus, Pastor, United Church of Christ, Worship
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The newly appointed general secretary of the National Christian Council in Japan has described the “dignity of life” and youth evangelism as the basis of his future work, reports Ecumenical News International.
“The NCCJ can create sites of encounter for children from South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, China and North Korea,” said the Rev. Makoto Iijima, who is aged 60, and currently pastor in Tokyo of a Taiwanese congregation that belongs to the United Church of Christ in Japan…. >>
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Washington D.C., Mar 26, 2009 / 09:06 pm (CNA).- The HIV and AIDS Network of the United Church of Christ (UCC) is advocating that condoms should be distributed at places of worship and faith-based educational settings.
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The Rev. Geoffrey Black, who has led the UCCs New York Conference for nearly a decade, has been nominated to become the UCCs next general minister and president. The nomination is scheduled to be voted on by the UCCs Executive Council at its March meeting.
Black was previously a program staff member in the UCCs Office for Church Life and Leadership. During his career he has served as assistant chaplain at Brown University, associate minister at St. Albans (N.Y.) Congregational UCC, lecturer in the Field Education Department of Union Theological Seminary in New York and protestant chaplain at
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More than 150 family members of people buried in St. Johannes
Cemetery, located next to Chicago OHare Airport, have filed a
petition to stop the City of Chicago from removing those graves to
make way for new runways and terminals at OHare.
The cemetery has been at the center of the OHare extension
controversy since 2005, with opponents deeming the 160-year-old
burial ground sacrosanct. Religious experts and lawyers have also
weighed in on the matter, saying the ruling could have widespread
implications for religious rights and religious freedom across the
United States.
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Clergy at a church are protesting Ohio’s ban on gay marriage by refusing to sign state marriage licenses for heterosexual couples.
The Rev. John Tamilio III, head pastor at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, said the move is a civil-rights protest. Ministers won’t sign the licenses until gay unions are legal in Ohio.
Ohio voters approved a gay marriage ban in 2004.
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