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Latino Pastors at Odds Over Immigration Reform
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 A group of Latino pastors is taking an unusual approach to immigration reform by urging illegal aliens to boycott the 2010 U.S. census. The National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders is calling for undocumented immigrants—many of whom attend the churches represented by the group's 16,000 members—to refuse participation so their information won't be eventually used against them.
"The same data that helps the Latino community to seek political empowerment, the same numbers that are used to show how strong we are and prove our growing numbers, that's the same data the anti-immigrant forces use against us," said the coalition's head, pastor Miguel Rivera. "When we weigh, in the balance, how many benefits the undocumented get by letting themselves be counted, it's more on the side of funding more police officers to arrest them, and more immigration agents to deport them and disrupt families. ... Read more
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Yeah, About That VIP Seat …
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QUOTE: "We are going to discover that cultural Christianity is what eventually disappears in a secularized age. Cultural Christianity has been so much a part of the environment of our ministry and of the expectation of our churches that it's going to be a very different situation for the pastor of the First Baptist Church to worry about being arrested rather than to worry about whether he's going to get the first seat in the restaurant. … When you start looking at a lot of the logic of what is becoming endemic in the culture toward the future, we're going to be in a very different situation than we've ever faced before. And we're going to discover that we are not as many as we thought we were. .... Read more |
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Mamas Don't Let Their Babies Grow Up to Be Priests
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Church growth, no matter how it's defined, typically starts with leadership. With this in mind, a recent study of Catholic priests in the United States is shedding plenty of light on declining numbers in the Roman Catholic Church.
Almost 45 percent of priests seeking ordination this year say they were discouraged from going into the priesthood, according to a survey of 310 priests by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University. Yet exactly who was offering the persuasive advice is just as telling of the change in this nation's spiritual climate. Almost 60 percent of priests said a mother, father or other family member had discouraged them, while 51 percent said they'd received the same negative input from a friend or classmate. (Respondents could select more than one category on the survey.) .... Read more |
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Ministry Online |
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Leadership Culture |
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A Higher Standard
| By Daniel Meyer
The role of holiness in pastoring
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Church Equipment |
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In Over Your Head
| By Phil Cooke
Buying tech equipment doesn't have to be overwhelming
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Worship Ministry |
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In Search of Excellence
| By Klaus Kuehn
Does having a 'tight' worship team really matter to God?
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Innovation |
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The Cowboy Church
| By Paul Wahl
Barrel racin', bull ridin', boots 'n' hats ... in Jesus' name (with a twang)
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