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Colossians 3:8, “Anger, wrath, malice, slander.” (ESV Colossians 3:5) As Christian people, who intend to follow Christ, we sometimes do not really follow Christ. It is easy to say love your neighbor, meaning everyone. On the other hand, it is very hard to follow through with that. You really learn how much the Lord loves you when you try to love the person you really dislike. It is hard, and the Lord makes it look easy. Now as Christian people however, it should be easy for us too. But, after…

Critical Reflection 1 The call to be a Christian is unique to the individual who chooses to follow the word of the Lord and bring Christ into their life. For some, they could have grown up in a Christian household and took upon their parent’s beliefs; others may have not been looking for their faith in God, but rather stumbled upon it unknowingly. My path to Christ is unique because I was raised in a Catholic-household, meaning I went through my First Communion and Confirmation, but I still…

and in certain circumstances, drifting away from typical Christian values is condemned. For example, even her Pentecostal grandparents are depicted as strange and eccentric for their beliefs because they are not part of the understood and accepted Christian community. Growing up in such a predominantly Christian society probably affected her somewhat negatively in this way because it caused her to have a bias towards Christianity and Christian people later in life. She explains that most…

like-minded religiously and that there was still tension between the two groups, positive reviews of the Christians should be very little or obsolete. In a primary source from a Muslim named Usamah, it withholds experiences of how the Christians appeared to the recently conquered Muslims. He goes through several different experiences in which he describes the interaction he had with a Christian, something he heard about, or an event he witnessed himself. The historical accuracy of the article is…

impacted our broken selves, culture and government by changing the thought, traditions and values of how we live. Christianity is a religion that fills the broken parts of our souls instead of depending the caverns. Christians are known for reaching out…

Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony to argue that the church has been called on by God to be what they call a “unique colony” within today’s world, and not a social group who makes their decision based on society’s opinions. The authors chose to use the metaphor of a colony to symbolize that although the church is part of the state its first priority is God and his will, rather than the governments. The second metaphor the authors chose to use throughout the book is that Christians are…

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber’s book; Forward Together, A Moral Message for the Nation, with Barbara Zelter, both authors talk about the historical context of the civil rights movement and the need for a moral movement their state of North Carolina and ultimately in the whole of the Unites States. Rev Barber sees this movement toward right wing extremists in the Republican Party; and sees them as coming to hurt minorities and poor through their policy implementation. The book progresses with…

deciding if it was best for the patient. Roe vs. Wade forced state to make abortion legal. Claiming that it was a women’s right to their body, and that they should be able to make the decision. In response to this Catholic’s and other religious groups spoke out against the idea. Another big role that religion played was in the gay rights movement. Christian Right opposed gay rights on the grounds that homosexuality flouted the will of God as expressed in the traditional family (Hartman, 95).…

short stories from her collection of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, is about Doris Yates, a religious and family girl who helps her mother clean the Jewish Church, friend by Olivia but they don't seems to get along well and She wanted to be saved by Christian salvation. Doris often visit to Mr. Stutz, from Lithuania, and he address Doris as Dori-ka, as she often visit him at his shop for a little chats. Her social…

respect others and their insight on religious differences, keeping them on equal footing so all views were equally valid. This further promoted the separation of church and state, provoking the concepts of “free expression” and “natural individual rights” (Forst). A French man called Montesquieu promoted “the toleration of different religions for the purpose of preserving political unity and peace,” which was adopted and became a means of preserving individual liberty in government and religion.…