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What in the church is a council?
Written by What in the church is a council?   
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 00:00

Here I will confess, if that’s the appropriate word, I myself am a lapsed Presbyterian. It’s the diction that did it, finally, the worn-thin, shabby, church-poor words, so overused they connote to me a poverty of spirit, not the richness of it.

E.L. Doctorow, The Waterworks

 
Playing with baby Jesus
Written by Deborah Kapp   
Monday, 12 December 2011 05:59

Would you like to come upstairs and play in my room?” asked my 3-year old niece, for whom I was babysitting.

Sure,” I said, and up we went. Within minutes we were on the floor together, playing with toys.

 
“The Brightest Star in the Sky”
Written by Jim Rumsfeld   
Monday, 12 December 2011 05:58

Of all the stars who have ever hung upon the eastern sky,

There is one remembered above all the rest … no others even try.

 
A church can change
Written by GUS NELSON   
Monday, 12 December 2011 05:53

Gus, we read your book and would like to try what it says in our church in Atlantic..” The personnel committee had read “Service is the Point” and wanted to try it out.

 
Old churches — new union churches
Written by D. CLYDE BARTGES   
Monday, 12 December 2011 05:51

In thinking about our declining Presbyterian Church membership, one possible way to stem the tide is to establish new union churches with other denominations.

 
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