Hints and tips:
...No woman had previously served in the episcopate of any church tracing its lineage from the first apostles consecrated by Christ....
...The first is when he tells a group of teenagers sitting on church hall folding chairs that Jesus did not teach that godliness and prosperity were connected. “Christians shouldn’t succeed? . . ....
...It is for Christ to decide who the Christians are, who has in fact done the will of his Father....
...The biography of Martin Luther King, and the fact that his (totally non-fundamentalist) prophetic reading of the Bible inspired his leadership of the civil rights movement, remains, to me, a very bright...
...Evans says that some of the assembly attendees come for a moral “recharge”. She jokes that whereas some Christians wear wristbands sporting the question “What would Jesus do?”...
...Martin Luther, who knew a thing or two about taking on established industries, wrote in On trading and usury (1524) that “all usurers are thieves and belong in the gallows”....
...Like Martin Luther, the duo in charge of Sunday Assembly has kept parts of organised religion that its congregation likes and changed parts they are less keen on....
...First, he shows how the Reformation arose out of the incapacity of late medieval Catholic society – and especially the church hierarchy – to live up to the biblical commandments of Christ....
...When the Christians began to celebrate the birth of Christ they would decorate their homes with holly like the pagans did in order to avoid religious persecution....
...While bitterly funny in places, much of Ehrenreich’s writing sends you scurrying for the proverbial Prozac: “Maybe you grew up believing America meant bacon cheeseburgers, Martin Luther King, rock and roll...
...Not since 1968, when both Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot dead, has this country seemed so unforgiving and so nasty....
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