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• "There may be blind spots"

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 472
  Nathan Finn, who teaches Baptist studies and church history at Southeastern Baptist, notes a controversy about whether it is possible for a local Baptist church to be a "true church." Ever since the Reformation era, it has been common to define a “true church” as a congregation where the gospel is rightly ...
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• Walter Bruggemann on Lloyd Pietersen’s Forthcoming Volume

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 615
  Walter Bruggemann writes of Lloyd Pietersen’s forthcoming Reading the Bible After Christendom , in part, Lloyd Pietersen has written an important and challenging book to which sustained attention must be paid. He begins with a recognition that biblical interpreters in the West (and the whole church) now ...
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• Forgotten orphans of Smyllum laid to rest by nuns in umarked graves

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 498
  By Frank Hurley September 14, 2003 / news.scotsman.com SCORES of tiny mounds and indentations punctuate the grass of a forlorn corner of St Mary’s cemetery in Lanark. read more
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• This Isn’t Christianity, It’s Depravity

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 615
  And this isn’t worship - it’s just a gathering of people who think they think they know something about Christian faith and practice. The sight of a woman being tattooed live on the altar accompanied by the sound of a buzzing ink gun provided a startling backdrop to Sunday’s evangelical sermon. Your ...
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• The politics of English Protestantism

  
  The Upward Call — Authority: 501
  One of the things that becomes evident as we read through Church history is that the spread of Protestantism varies from country to country. The course of reform in Germany was different from the experience of Switzerland, and of course, things in England were quite different.The political issues surrounding the ...
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• Those Stupid Christians

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 419
   On the stone wall of a room for guards near the Circus Maximus in 1st century Rome, archaeologists found a sort of graffiti that mocked Christians.  Here’s how Everett Ferguson describes it. “The figure of a man with the head of an ass is shown hanging on a cross.  Nearby another man raises his hand in a ...
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• Church History in 4 minutes

  
  Catholic Faith Education — Authority: 423
  Church history buffs should enjoy this video:
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• What local churches are missing

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 422
  I think that local churches are missing out the whole chunk of socio-political setting within the canon as well as Christian history, especially the Reformation. To think the Reformation was essentially a religious reform is a historical mistake. Take Martin Luther as an example. At that time he was the professor of ...
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• Baptist history

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 472
  Nathan Finn at Between The Times calls our attention to another trove of Baptist history made available by Google Books: ...Google Books has finished scanning all volumes of the two most important early histories of the British Baptists. Thomas Crosby (1685-1750) was a pastor in London and the first Baptist ...
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• Vatican Radios "Vatican Centuries" Series Continues

  
  Blog by-the-Sea — Authority: 126
  I have updated my post on Jill Bevilaquas series "The Vatican Centuries" on Vatican Radio.  You can find links and short descriptions of each of the episodes through November 27 at this post .  She has now reached the 13th century in her weekly series.  Each episode is about 8 to 12 minutes long.
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• The Daily Habit: Religion

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
  Protestants Repent Lenape Sins http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091127/ap_on_re_us/us_native_americans_reconcile  
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• "...While in God confiding, I cannot but rejoice"

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 472
  Last week on the anniversary of his birth in 1731 Conjubilant With Song recognized William Cowper, the author of two of my favorite hymns: "Sometimes a Light Surprises" [see below] and "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," both influenced by Cowpers experience of depression but recalled in the context of his ...
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• Father Geoffrey Holt RIP

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 544
  Most English Jesuit historians have restricted their research to the years of early recusancy, or non-compliance with the religion of state, starting in the late 16th century and continuing to the reign of King James I. Holt chose the comparatively neglected 18th century, about which he wrote with great sympathy and ...
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• What Moses Saw From Mount Nebo

  
  The Anti-Preterist's Blog — Authority: 122
  (Deut. 34: 1-4) “ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.  And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan.  And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea.  And the ...
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• The Esse of Reformed–Current Question– Dr. Michael A.G. Haykin

  
  All Things New — Authority: 112
  I was reading the exchange between Dr. James White  and Dr. Scott Clark   on being Baptist and Reformed this morning. Mr. White had this exposition by Dr Haykin linked to his response. I think this is interesting……………     “I was just made aware of a recent exchange between Drs Scott Clark and ...
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• A Brief History of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)

  
  Levellers — Authority: 413
  It’s time for another installment in my series of historical sketches of major grassroots peace and justice organizations, especially those with religious foundations (and, of those, especially Christian peace groups).  In previous installments to this series, I sketched the history of the International Fellowship ...
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• The English Village Churches Series No Four Cheriton in Hampshire

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
  As the mist cleared on the morning of the 29th of March 1644, the Civil War ‘Battle of Cheriton’ began.  Thousands of Royalist and Parliamentarian soldiers became locked in combat in the fields to the east of the small Hampshire village.  The brutal skirmish lasted all day, and by sunset around 2,000 men lay ...
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• Church History in 4 minutes

  
  blog of dan — Authority: 130
  Related Posts Latest Links British Church History [Part 4] Kids Talk Church History Rap Latest Links British Church History Kids Talks
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• Gwent Castles 09

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 432
  Newport/Casnewydd There are other Gwent Castles we could mention (Goodrich and Caldicot come to mind) but well finish with the first castle I ever saw. I grew up in Cwmbran but my parents were from Newport and we would often be there. I used to love to see the castle. To me it was like a time travel machine that ...
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• Serenity Prayer Skeptic Now Credits Niebuhr

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 544
  A Yale librarian who cast doubt last year on the origins of the Serenity Prayer, adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and reprinted on countless knickknacks, says new evidence has persuaded him to retain the famed Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr as the author in the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations. The ...
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