Blazing a trail for Barack Obama

Blazing a trail for Barack Obama

Source: Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada

Author: David Olive, Columnist

Date: 31 August, 2008

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 Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Temple – 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 Riverside Church…

Mystery solved: Butler man’s house isn’t built on a graveyard

Mystery solved: Butler man’s house isn’t built on a graveyard
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, WI, USA
Author: Laurel Walker

Date: 30 August, 2008

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 Trinity United Church of Christ cemetery in Brookfield.

Faiths’ beliefs on homosexuality vary

Faiths’ beliefs on homosexuality vary
Source: That Minority Thing

Author: admin

Date: 30 August, 2008

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 ...

History of the Episcopal Church Lesson 5

History of the Episcopal Church Lesson 5

Source: Christ Church Little Rock

Author: jbcross

Date: 21 August, 2008

The United Church of Christ was one of the first denominations to fully support gays. The Southern Baptist Church and others took the lead in Afamily values.@ The Episcopal Church was deeply divided but had reached its compromise....

congregationalists

congregationalists

Source: Aspiration Toward Inspiration (blog)

Author: relsdork

Date: 13 August, 2008

While many Christian denominations can be marked today by their tendencies to condemn, the United Church of Christ has adopted a much more inclusive stance. Congregationalist Christians’ beginnings as ‘puritans’ can help illustrate how much change has taken place within the religious institution.

WILL HAWAII BECOME AN INDEPENDANT NATION ONCE AGAIN?

WILL HAWAII BECOME AN INDEPENDANT NATION ONCE AGAIN?

Source: Central La. Politics (blog)

Author: Political Bloggers

Date: 10 August, 2008

Whereas, the Eighteenth General Synod of the United Church of Christ in recognition of the denomination's historical complicity in the illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 directed the Office of the President of the United Church of Christ to offer a public apology to the Native Hawaiian people and to initiate the process of reconciliation between the United Church of Christ and the Native Hawaiians.

What is a Liberal Christian?

Source: Accents In The Eye

Author: John14

Date: 1 August, 2008

Sometimes liberals are thought to be Christians who have backslidden; people who don't have enough faith, or are too "in the world." Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. Liberal Christians are committed believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have thoroughly studied the scriptures and traditions of the Church, and have examined their faith in the light of reason and experience.

...mainline Protestant denominations: American Baptist Churches, USA; Disciples of Christ; Episcopal Church; Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Presbyterian Church, USA; United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church...

An Appreciation of the Family Niebuhr

An Appreciation of the Family Niebuhr

Source: Levellers

Author: Michael Westmoreland-White

Date: 26 July 2008

A minister and church planter for the German Evangelical Synod (today absorbed by the United Church of Christ), an American immigrant denomination created by the 1817 union of Reformed and Lutheran churches in Prussia (using the ...

SB church celebrates 140 years of reaching out

SB church celebrates 140 years of reaching out
SBsun.com: 02-25-2007

Today, the First Congregational United Church of Christ of San Bernardino still reaches out to the community.

"We've always been part of a wider ministry, reaching out beyond our doors," said the Rev. Petra Malleis-Sternberg, the church's first woman senior pastor.

Cohen To Speak About Black History Month

Cohen To Speak About Black History Month
Eye Witness News (ABC-24): 02-21-2007

"Congressman Steve Cohen (TN 9) will speak at the Second Congregational United Church of Christ on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. as part of LeMoyne-Owen College's Black History Month event "Bridging the Gap Between Government and Community."

York County's own Civil War - Part IV

York County's own Civil War - Part IV
York Town Square: 02-19-2007


"This postcard shows the steeples, right, of what today is Trinity United Church of Christ and, far right, the mother church that became Zion United Church of Christ. The congregations had to address immense issues during the mid-19th century."

Pioneer Chapel: Fabulous at 140 years young

Pioneer Chapel: Fabulous at 140 years young
Inside Bay Area: 02-19-2007

"This month, the Pioneer Chapel got an early birthday present.

"California's Historic Resources Commission recommended the wood-frame building — one of Alameda County's oldest surviving churches — to the state and national registers of historic places.


"The chapel's owner, the Eden United Church of Christ, is making sure its spiritual legacy isn't just rooted in the pioneer past."

UCC Offers Anniversary Study Guide
UCC Connecticut Conference: 01-31-2007

"The UCC is shining! In this January’s UCC all-church mailing, you received a free copy of Shine, God’s People, a study guide for celebrating 50 years of the United Church of Christ. The resource is also available at www.ucc.org/50/studyguide50.htm ."