Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have
Welcome to the church of me.
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.
Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.
Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.
I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state. ' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've been told this information by somebody they trust and it's not their fault. They've just never heard otherwise.
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.