Category: The Church

Why the Church doesn’t talk about race

.Reading time 8 minutes.

“I can’t think of a clever sermon title.”  “What words rhyme with race?”  “I don’t know where to begin.”  I’m not an expert.”  “It’s too sad.”  “People won’t come to church to hear that.”  “People will leave.”  “I will never forgive them for what they did.”  “It will make people angry.”  “It will hurt.  It’s […]

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The Church’s Task

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“The church’s task is not to keep inventing new gospels, new theologies, new moralities and new Christianities, but rather to be a faithful guardian of the one and only eternal gospel.  For the self- revelation of God has reached its completion in his Son Jesus Christ and in the apostolic witness to Christ preserved in […]

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