Hurricane Gustav has already caused great damage as it moves toward the United States. You can make a difference by making a gift to the United Church of Christ (put Hurricane Gustav in the comments section) or Church World Service. ...
Forty years before Barack Obama, chosen last week as the Democratic Party's nominee for the U.S. presidency, there was the Rev. Channing E. Phillips.The son of a Brooklyn pastor, Phillips, a District of Columbia-based civil-rights leader and social activist, was the first African American whose name was placed in nomination for the U.S. presidency by a major political party, the Democrats. His name was put forward at their tumultuous 1968 convention in Chicago…
Phillips was pastor at WashingtonD.C.'s LincolnTemple – like Obama's long-time Chicago church, from which Obama estranged himself this year, a congregation of the United Church of Christ. Phillips was later a minister at Manhattan's RiversideChurch…
Don introduced this week’s service with a “teaser” email which contained the following quote:. “We are certainly standing on ‘holy ground’ this week in terms of making connections with a ‘Moses’ in our lifetime who had visions of a new ...
Carol Umsted got more than the word of God during services this summer at the Congregational United Church of Christ of ValleyCity.
She also got $50 worth of free gas, thanks to winning a raffle. For the local farmer, it was a nice side benefit, at a time when gas was more than $4 a gallon.
"In the United Church of Christ, no matter who you are or where you are in life's journey, you're welcome here. We ask that people be respectful of one another," Bean said.
The United Church of Christ was birthed through a merger of four faith traditions: Evangelical, Reformed, Congregational and Christian, Bean said.
Addressing over 8000 United Church of Christ members in June 2007, Obama challenged "so-called leaders of the Christian Right" for being "all too eager to exploit what divides us." A method that political scientists use for gauging ...
Although Obama is Christian, July 2008 polls have shown that some Americans believe incorrectly that he is Muslim or was raised Muslim (12% and 26%, respectively, in Pew and Newsweek polls). When CNN's Larry King cited the latter poll, Obama responded, "...I wasn't raised in a Muslim home," and said that advancement of the misconception insulted Muslim Americans…
Author: Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
Date: 31 August, 2008
Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, a church that professes a belief in "liberation theology." According to "talking points" listed on TrinityChurch's Web site, "The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is ...
When comments from old sermons thrust the Rev. Jeremiah Wright unfavorably into the national spotlight during the Democratic primaries, the Chicago pastor maintained wide support among black churchgoers who have admired him for decades.
And few black churches have stayed more loyal than Elmwood United Presbyterian in East Orange, where Wright next Sunday will begin a weeklong church revival, titled "Recapturing Our Prophetic Voice." He has led revivals there every September since 1989…
They hit it off instantly, connecting on a spiritual level, said Burkins, who himself preaches one Sunday a year at Trinity United Church of Christ in...
Obama's troubles with Catholics and evangelicals can be traced to his many years of attendance at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, a church that professes a belief in "liberation theology." According to "talking points" listed on TrinityChurch's Web site, "The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone's book, Black Power and Black Theology."
The Straight Way of GraceMinistry I called The United Church of Christ in Chicago , Illinois , where Senator Obama is a member. I doubted that he was indeed a Christian for if he were Muslim and left the religion of Islam, according to ...
Although Tom Ruh found a headstone in his Butler backyard for a young girl, it turns out she's resting peacefully with her parents under the Tesch family monument at the TrinityUnitedChurch of Christ cemetery in Brookfield.
Rabbi Randy Fleisher. CommunityChurch of God The Rev. Douglas Parham. ComptonHeights Christian Church The Rev. Jacqueline Foster. Epiphany United Church of Christ The Rev. Mary Albert. Holy Trinity Catholic Church Fr. Richard Creason ...
United Church of Christ: In the 1970s the UCC allowed the ordination of the first openly gay man and the first openly lesbian woman. Ordination of practicing homosexuals was officially accepted in 1980. But since the UCC believes in ...
Have you ever attended a worship service at TrinityUnitedChurch of Christ? I have: one, many years ago. In The Faith of Barack Obama, Mansfield takes you to a Trinity service. More importantly, he introduces you to members of the ...
I hope that you can sense my sarcasm coming out. Sure, I think a little mudslinging can be entertaining, but it is not very Christian. I find it interesting Obama, a member of TrinityUnitedChurch of Christ, and McCain, a Southern Baptist, who both made very clear confessions of faith in Jesus Christ recently in a forum held at SaddlebackChurch, would stoop to mudslinging.
Source: The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com - Syracuse, NY, USA
Author: Anthony Fratto, Mayor of Phoenix & Danny Dunn, trustee
Date: 26 August, 2008
To express its support in concrete terms, the village board adopted a resolution at its Aug. 19 meeting evidencing its willingness to contribute substantial financial support for a dedicated or shared-use park to be located in the village.
The First Congregational United Church of Christ pastor and a church board of trustees representative were also present at the Aug. 19 village board meeting in order to express the church's willingness to donate vacant lands owned by the church within the village for this purpose.
Yesterday during our outdoor worship service and annual church picnic at Union Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Somonauk, we shot some video for this homegrown "Steeples for the People" message for the UnitedChurch of Christ ...
The members and friends of Pilgrim United Church of Christ, Brentwood-Kingston invite the public to the beginning of a new program year.
On Saturday, Sept. 13 the church will welcome the Rev. Angela Menke Ballou for an evening of storytelling. This is an event for all ages. Angela serves as associate minister for Second Congregational Church in Beverly, Mass.
He has been a member of the United Church of Christ for several decades. We worship Jesus Christ as the … read more Redeemer. Any person may attend. ...
The Rev. Karen Thompson of the United Church of Christ serves as a member of the Florida VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster). She said she has had a chance to look at the overall picture of damage in the state from that position and as the associate minister for disaster recovery and response for her church's statewide organization.
"There are a lot of people in need, especially in BrevardCounty," she said.
The UCC, the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church and several other organizations are working to ensure the clean up kits they need to help survivors get their homes back in order are ready to go. The Red Cross has opened (and, in some cases, closed) shelters around the state to give temporary relief to those who were put out of their homes. Most of the thousands who were displaced have gone to stay with family and friends.
… We have a vibrant lesbian and gay membership in Spring Creek United Church of Christ, and we are members of a denomination that has had a place in American religious life since before the Revolutionary War. We have a special ministry called Maranatha, established to do ministry and outreach with the gay community. Our gay members pray for the sick, visit and take meals to the homebound, sing in the choir, teach Sunday school and serve in leadership roles. Like other Christians, they wrestle over the meaning of scripture and what it means to us in 21st-century America and the world, and struggle to discern God’s plan for them as Christians. In other words, they are pretty much what Paul called “saints of the Lord,” people walking the Way of Christ as they are able. …
In an article in United Church News, Obama stated that the teachings of the UCC (United Church of Christ), of which he is a member (Trinity United Church of Christ), are “foundation stones for his political work.” Just what are those “teachings” comprised of? On Trinity’s website, on the Yoga page, the following statement is highlighted:
Within each [of]us is the seed of Divinity. Each Soul is divine. I bow to the divinity in us all!
Carol Vaccariello, a minister of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and a bishop of the Independent Old CatholicChurch, walked the perimeter of the medicine wheel in her back yard. …
A year ago today, the illegal immigrant moved into a small home owned by the United Church of Christ in Simi Valley. She came with her then 5-month-old son Pablito for sanctuary against the threat of being deported to Mexico. …
People who once protested at the church call federal authorities and demand Liliana's deportation as well as investigations into the church. Immigration officials avoid saying they won't make an arrest on church property, instead declaring they take action at "appropriate times in appropriate places."
The limbo continues, and no one knows how long it will last, including Liliana. …
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At least once each year, I am in the habit of reading and contemplating the
*Declaration of Independence*. Today is that day:
*IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.*...
