Christian anarchism

In English class I was instructed to find a song that was fit for a meaningful, in class analysis and to explain the meanings of the song to my classmates in an original manner. After studying the song “Hallelujah,” by the band Panic! At The Disco, I had explored the topic of admitting our mistakes, and I had learned why it’s essential that we, as sinners, are able to confess our sins and wrong doings to each other as well as those who we have hurt in the past. The song “Hallelujah” kicks off…

I said to someone once, "if I could have a free pass I think I would go back and change a few things". They looked at me and said "Like what?" And ever since then it's been going through my mind all the things I "thought" I would do different. For starters, I would change all the immature/irresponsible things I may have done in my adolescence. I would take back all the things I should've not said, or say the things I needed to say. I would have been on the first vehicle that could have got me to…

"Salvation,"an essay by Langston Hughes about his experiences of seeking and losing his faith in Jesus as well as religion. The essay serves as Hughes observations on his expectations and disappointments on the topic of religion as a whole. The irony in title to the final line of the essay features the central subject of the paper: expectation and disappointment. In order to make this happen, many writing styles and techniques were used. Two of those techniques are the use of subordination and…

Vesak, each very special to the religion. Buddhists can probably be associated more with the Chinese culture than anything, and their religion is influenced by their culture as well. There are also beliefs in this religion that are similar to the Christians, such as infant presentation, no infant baptism, the choice in autopsy, cremation, and organ donation. There are also differences, like the fact that suffering is inevitable, an individual’s illness is caused by karma, which is an…

enables modern readers to understand the meaning of the original biblical texts-the meaning the people at the time the texts’ composition (author, editor, audience, readers) would have most likely understood-and only then seeks its significance for Christians…

. The Spirit Movements of the Twentieth Century The Overview section of our course relates that: “Demographers of Christian Churches such as D.B. Barrett tell us in publications such as World Christian Encyclopedia (2001) that the P/C movements number something like 600 million members today. This is a truly phenomenal growth. In one century, this movement has outstripped all the rest of Protestantism together, and the Reformation dates back four centuries!” TM online) According to the…

and helps to grow into the people God would have us to be. The process is not complete without transformation. “Robert A. Evan wrote that “transformation calls for nothing less than a metanoia or conversion that encompasses the whole person and society”. (Page 70, Matthaei) It cannot affect just you, the transformation must start with you but it also must reach out to the world around us. The conversion should affect all of creation. In this type of transformation lives are radically changed…

The primary point being made in the document is that baptism weaves together some of the major themes and emphases of the Christian faith. The ideas set out in is document of Baptism include: Baptism as the participation in Christ’s death and resurrection, washing away our sin, new birth, an enlightenment by Christ, a reclothing in Christ, a renewal by the Spirit, the experience of salvation from the flood, an exodus from bondage, and a liberation into a new humanity in which barriers of…

those without a voice, treating every human with value regardless of race, religion, sexuality, or any other walk of life they may posses. Stewardship includes the values of justice: Distributive, Legal, Commutative, or Social. It is our right as Christians to be Stewards of God’s creation at all times anywhere we are in the world. I am a steward…

During this discussion between Socrates and Glaucon, Socrates telsl a story, the Myth of Er, that the just will receive rewards in the afterlife. This myth is envisioned of a strong man named Er who is killed during a battle, but he does not actually die. Instead he is sent up above the earth to a place called heaven and while he is there he is made to overlook what is going on around him in heaven because he is to become a messenger. After he sees that the dead either go up through on opening…