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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Orthodox Christianity in East Africa



The Church founded by Christ, the Faith given to the Apostles, has been made truly accessible to all people to understand in their own terms. I rejoice that there can be a diversity of expressions proclaiming the Ancient Faith guided by the Holy Spirit as it was and always shall be.

-Steve

(I had heard about the Orthodox Christians of Tanzania today on Ancient Faith Radio: The Illumined Heart and I found this on youtube. Just as I can accept that the "Oriental" and "Eastern" Churches can proclaim the same Faith in a diversity of expressions I can only imagine the infinite possibilities for the Church in places yet untouched)

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Post-Christians- Christianity Today

"These are people who have seen Christianity somewhere along the way and have decided they are not interested. For example, a young man who grew up in a Christian home and was disillusioned by his parents' messy divorce. Or someone who had attended church but witnessed something as painful as a nasty split or as subtle (yet subversive) as hypocritical Christians who said one thing and did another.
Other Post-Christians have no church experience at all, but their experiences with Christians, even if only through the media, have been negative—they consider Christians preachy or legalistic or untrustworthy.
Sometimes it's as simple as negative interaction with the idea of Christianity; after seeing public scandals and watching a diminishing reputation, they decided they didn't want to be associated with it.
The common element is that they, rightly or wrongly, feel like they already understand Christianity and are not interested."
- Daniel Hill

full article

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