Baptist

trust and confide in her. I contribute this to “good” pastoral care since, not only have I have learned important Spiritual direction from Rev. M. My religious background originally hailed from the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) tradition to the Baptist tradition. Not only has she encouraged me through this transition but has been the only female individual who has, there were others who are not willing to shepherd and guide women new/young to ministry.…

1+2+4:The Christianity view of the many gender and sexual diversities of today as being both good and bad. The controversy that stems with being a gay christian as it goes against God’s word. Homosexuality is brought up in the bible as being a sin in the book of Romans that states how “males committed indecent acts with males and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.” (Romans 1:27) This can lead to some Christians in a fundamentalist view could take this in…

illiteracy in the field of religion among individuals around the world. Personally, my interest in religious literacy began at birth. In other words, it is attributed to the Southern Baptist Church. I was born in an African American Christian family where my father was a pastor at the nearby Southern Christian Baptist church. He convened family prayer meetings regularly to ensure that we grew up as God-fearing individuals. Normally, in such meetings, he emphasized on the essence of righteous…

Moving schools away from all of my friends should’ve been an appalling experience, surprisingly, it was a blessing in disguise. I went to Agnes Baptist Elementary from kindergarten to 5th grade and I had friends that I've known since I was 3. I loved it there and knew the school like the back of my hand. Everything was superior, like most good things, though there were times where they weren’t, I was harassed by a bully almost everyday, my grades were getting inadequate, and my mom didn’t want…

Harvey Milk once said, “Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard”, and in America today the LGBT community voices are being heard by society. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are being accepted more and more by the evolving society as well as the progressing government in the country. But there are still walls holding the LGBT community back from complete equality in America, and the rest of society. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, “sexual…

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a book about soldiers during the Vietnam War. The Things They Carried is a work of fiction, although O’Brien himself did serve in the Vietnam War (McMechan, n.d.). Kiowa was a Native American Baptist, as described in the first chapter of the book: The Things They Carried. Kiowa witnessed the death of Ted Lavender and constantly repeated the phrase, “Boom-down.” Kiowa also used his grandfather’s hatchet to separate a thumb from a dead boy in the same…

law as the state church, and a portion of tax revenues went to support the parish and its priest. After 1750, as Baptist ranks swelled in that colony, the colonial Anglican elite responded to their presence with force. With few limits on the influx of new colonists, Anglican citizens in those colonies needed to accept, however grudgingly, ethnically diverse groups of Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, members of the Dutch Reformed…

Thank you, Eromosele, I love Grand Canyon University.The racial increase and ethnic diversity is becoming so alarming in the U.S. As a result of this, America is experiency racial and ethnic health disparities. It is projected that by 2050, the older population will consist of 61% non-Hispanic white, 18% Hispanic, 12% black, 8% Asia, and 2.7% all other races combined. My Heritage Assessment Tool is centered on Black American, Phillipines, and Nigerian. Dectionary difinition of culture is the…

False Dichotomy Division Among Believers Coming from two religious backgrounds have been challenging to my faith as a Christian. My first fellowship was that of the Baptist faith. Later to be joined to the Pentecostal and Charismatic faith. I discovered a misleading since of contrast in both ecclesiastical backgrounds. There is a dissimilarity in approach, concept and exchange of concepts amongst the two denominations. Churches are divided by their own since of doctrine, giving rise…

Worldview is defined in our textbook as “a psychological perception of the environment that determines how we think, behave, and feel” (Mio, 2012). Our worldview within our family consists of family roles, emotional expression, interdependence, power, communication styles, subsystems, rules, myths, and rituals. Each person has his or her own experiences in their lives that shape their worldview, and their family plays a large part in this. I have always considered my family to be what is…