Church

In the more than two years of attending Luther College, I had never been to a Sunday morning church service in the Center for Faith and Life. In fact, I have attended very few church services in my life. As a child, I went on rare occasions with my family to my grandfather’s Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, and often felt intimidated during the experience. I can remember the time I accompanied my grandfather to a service on a day in which the congregation received communion. During communion, I…

Current Event: Church of Satan and separation of church and state: Alex Newkirk The First Amendment of the U.S. constitution prohibits making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (U.S. Constitution) This means that our government guarantees United States…

revolutionaize and change the traditional systems of the roman catholic church. These changes were initiated by a group of leaders who saw a need to make amendments within the church in accordance to the gospel in the bible. Other reforms had been advocated before these times but were never successful as the church had a strong command over its following and the political class. However, the 16th century enabled the radical changing of church traditions by scholars and leaders who managed to…

the Pope. Upon the rise of Islam in the Middle East, tension between Eastern and Western Catholics intensified. As a result of this conflict, the Roman Catholic sect broke free as an alternative to Orthodox Catholicism (Brom). The Eastern Orthodox Church undertook the role of Catholics who wanted to practice simplified Catholicism after the divergence with Roman Catholics. Rather than recognizing the Pope as their leader, Orthodox Catholicism recognizes Bishops as leaders. Orthodox Catholicism…

remedy this discrepancy by examining the post war period through the lens of the Catholic Church. Kent’s investigation delves into the diplomatic relationships between the Vatican, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, and the countries involved in World War II and the reconstruction of Europe, from the start of the war, in 1939, through to the early years of the Cold War. He describes how the Catholic Church utilized diplomatic…

Firstly, I learnt a lot, about the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, and the humble beginnings of the Lutheran church. I learnt just how corrupt the papacy was, almost as if they didn’t have a conscience. They were keeping thousands, perhaps millions of people away from Christ. In a way they were ruining Jesus’s sacrifice, his death and all that it means for mankind. Jesus died for our sins to make us pure before the father, so that we might be able to enter heaven. By selling indulgences…

St. John 's Catholic Church and a service at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, and the similarities and differences that I observed were extremely intriguing. Both services recite similar prayers, like the Nicene Creed and Our Father, and they celebrate the Eucharist during mass. While the Orthodox Church is demographically Greek, the Catholic Church represents a large white population, and they both show incredible hospitality toward newcomers. The Orthodox Church is dome-shaped and…

During a huge part of his reign, Offa wanted to strengthen ties with the Church. Offa created a great sense of stability with the church. Generally, all of his relations with the Church were positive for him, but also created a great sense of positivity for the Church as well. He created this sense of alliance by the means of promoting the Church to enemies and by building more and more churches throughout his kingdom. Offa than thought of creating ideas such as a parish system from the new…

The Catholic Church has always had a strong presence in society, and the idea that such a non-secular institution that is based on religious morals and apparent virtues has had a deep rooted history of corruption and abuse is almost blasphemous to utter considering it is one of the lardgest religions in the world with 1.3 billion followers. The Catholic Church in itself is a very secreative organization and thorught the years it is estimated that they have paid 4 billion dollars in costs related…

the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows ' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation”(Mark 12:38-40) This is what the Roman Catholic Church did to their congregation with indulgences from the medieval…