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  • Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Pro-Abortion Professor

    08/08/2015 3:18:39 PM PDT · by juliosevero · 2 replies
    Last Days Watchman ^ | Julio Severo
    Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Pro-Abortion Professor By Julio Severo Abortion legalization in Brazil was discussed in a Senate hearing on August 6, 2015. Among the debaters were pro-abortion feminists. The big surprise was that the Senate introduced one of them as “Márcia Tiburi, professor at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University.” Mackenzie is the highest Calvinist educational institution in Brazil. Tiburi’s pro-abortion discourse, recorded by TV Senado (the official TV of the Brazilian Senate), began by saying that whenever she travels throughout Brazil in her pro-abortion activism she takes the name Mackenzie with her, stressing that she is not the...
  • "White power" group plans takeover of town with the last church where OPC founder Machen preached

    08/31/2013 7:51:32 AM PDT · by darrellmaurina · 40 replies
    (Vanity) | 8/31/2013 | Darrell Todd Maurina
    The town where J. Gresham Machen, the founder of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, last preached before his death has shown up again in the news, this time in a horrible way. While Machen's direct denominational influence was fairly narrow, as the key leader of the secession from the Northern Presbyterians and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary, Machen has a lasting role in American Calvinism that is far larger than the Orthodox Presbyterian Church which he founded. In his own lifetime, however, Machen's role was even more important and went well beyond Reformed circles. As a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary,...
  • Southern Baptists: Agree to Disagree over Calvinism

    06/17/2013 6:59:32 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 137 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 6/11/13 | Adelle M. Banks
    Can’t we all just get along? That was the question that Southern Baptists, torn between Calvinists and non-Calvinists, seemed to be asking as they opened their two-day annual meeting in Houston. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, created a 19-member advisory committee that produced a report in time for the meeting called “Truth, Trust and Testimony.”Southern Baptists have been divided over Calvinism since their denomination began in 1845, but Page said Monday (June 10) that disagreements had reached a tipping point. “The truth is, I see an anti-Calvinism now that frightens me; it’s a vitriol that...
  • Protest Songs [review of "Les Huguenots", an opera about the St Bartholomew Massacre]

    07/01/2009 8:16:29 AM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 7 replies · 644+ views
    Chronogram Magazine ^ | July 1, 2009 | Dakota Lane
    If you’ve been getting your kicks in three-minute doses on YouTube, you might want to take one evening this summer to dress up and unplug. “I think opera can be quite therapeutic for the ADD generation,” says American designer-director Thaddeus Strassberger who will be directing Giacomo Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots,” one of the grandest of the grand French operas, for Bard’s SummerScape July 31 through August 7, a show that will give opera diehards as well as novices a chance to steep themselves in a particularly rare treat. Full of big emotions and clear drama, the producer promises it will be...
  • How Calvinists Spread Holiday Cheer

    11/18/2011 6:13:09 AM PST · by Alex Murphy · 262 replies
    WSJ ^ | November 18, 2011 | Aaron Belz
    Next Thursday, as the rest of us tuck into our turkey feasts, hundreds of needy families in Southern California will open "Boxes of Love." Delivered by several churches led by Pacific Crossroads in Santa Monica, Calif., the boxes contain ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal for six. They allow impoverished families to skip food lines and neighborhood pantries and enjoy the holiday in their own homes. What's unusual about the Pacific Crossroads congregation—and what underpins efforts such as Boxes of Love—is its theologically conservative raison d'être. A member church of the Presbyterian Church in America, Pacific Crossroads is committed to Reformation...
  • Our Lady of Hostyn(Catholic Caucus)

    08/06/2011 5:34:45 PM PDT · by johngrace · 21 replies
    Sanctus Christopher ^ | 1-3-2010 | Christopher
    Our Lady of Hostyn Normally when you see an image of the Virgin Mary flanked by lightning bolts, it is presented to show us her infinite intercession with her Son to hold back some Divine Justice for the sins of man, the wrath of God. In a minor basilica, the Church of the Assumption, nestled on a hill barely 200 feet high in the middle of Europe, there is an exception. In this image, she holds the child Jesus, and the fiery lightning pouring forth from His hand is being directed by her. In the southeast corner of the Czech...
  • Calvins Reign of Terror

    12/15/2010 7:22:45 PM PST · by narses · 82 replies · 1+ views
    Geneva was a church-city-state of 15,000 people, and the church constitution now recognized "pastors, doctors, elders and deacons," but the supreme power was given to the magistrate, John Calvin. In November 1552, the Council declared Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion to be a "holy doctrine which no man might speak against." Thus the State issued dogmatic decrees, the force of which had been anticipated earlier, as when Jacques Gruet, a known opponent of Calvin, was arrested, tortured for a month and beheaded on July 26, 1547, for placing a letter in Calvin's pulpit calling him a hypocrite. Gruet's book...
  • What If Calvinists Became the Majority . . . Not Gonna Happen . . . But What If . . .

    06/05/2009 9:01:38 PM PDT · by ReformationFan · 894 replies · 5,200+ views
    The Riddleblog ^ | Kim Riddlebarger
    Attendance at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston would decline rapidly to the point that the property would be sold back to the city of Houston to pay off ministry debts. It would then be re-converted into a basketball arena.
  • Religious people have superior visual perception than atheists

    11/15/2008 6:54:10 AM PST · by Alex Murphy · 18 replies · 943+ views
    Yahoo ^ | Nov 15, 2008 | ANI
    London, Nov 15 (ANI): Religious people really do see the world differently, that's what a new research ahs suggested. The study found that Dutch Calvinists notice embedded visual patterns quicker than their atheist compatriots. According to Bernhard Hommel, a psychologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands who led the new study, culture has long been known to distort visual perception. In a bid to see if religious differences skew perception, Hommel's team tested 40 Dutch atheist and Calvinist university students, who, religion aside, had similar cultural backgrounds. In the study, Hommel's team showed participants a large triangle or square made...
  • Celebrating a Calvinist Christmas with a Clear Conscience

    12/22/2007 2:56:20 AM PST · by Gamecock · 61 replies · 140+ views
    Theologia ^ | 1997 | Mark Horne
    Celebrating a Calvinist Christmas with a Clear Conscience Is the Holiday Unpresbyterian? Mark Horne ‘Tis the season to be informed–sometimes in gentleness, often with vigor–by a variety of Christians (and others [1]) claiming that it is wrong to celebrate Christmas. I have no desire to force anyone to celebrate Christmas against their will. Indeed, it would be insulting to the high holiday to pretend that it needs enforcement. It offers to Christians an opportunity for praise and thanksgiving for Christ’s incarnation, good music, family fellowship, the giving and receiving of gifts, and a great many other blessings. What more could...
  • Study: Recent grads 3 times more likely to be Calvinists

    11/28/2007 9:06:58 AM PST · by Alex Murphy · 150 replies · 133+ views
    Baptist Press News ^ | Nov 27, 2007 | Jeff Robinson
    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)—-Nearly 30 percent of recent SBC seminary graduates now serving as church pastors identify themselves as Calvinists, according to data presented during the opening session of a conference on Reformed theology and the Southern Baptist Convention. By contrast in the SBC at large, the number of pastors who affirm the five points of Calvinism is around 10 percent, Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research, said in reporting various findings by LifeWay Research and the North American Mission Board Center for Missional Research. Such data, Stetzer noted Nov. 26, perhaps gives an indication why a conference such as "Building...
  • Whose soul is saved, and who gets roasted?

    11/18/2006 8:12:35 PM PST · by Alex Murphy · 35 replies · 845+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | November 18, 2006 | JEFFREY WEISS
    Who does go to hell? Many people don't believe in hell at all. Non-Christian faiths have their own take, of course. Judaism, the religion that birthed Christianity, teaches of the eternal nature of the soul, a divine judgment, and a mostly undefined "World to Come." But specifics are left up to God. Islam is more like Christianity, with concrete traditions of paradise and hell. Who ends up where is a matter of how well the person submitted to God's will while alive. Hindus and Buddhists believe in karma and reincarnation, so the evil done in one life is atoned for...
  • A Hymn's Long Journey Home

    11/23/2005 1:42:04 PM PST · by afraidfortherepublic · 40 replies · 1,282+ views
    The Opinion Journal (Wall Street Journal) ^ | 11-22-05 | Melanie Kirkpatrick
    The surprising origins of "We Gather Together," a Thanksgiving standard. Its mention of God makes it verboten in schools today. But not too many years ago this was the season when teachers would lead their students in the great ecumenical Thanksgiving hymn, "We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing." It's a singable melody, and the stirring lyrics speak directly of the Pilgrims' experience in overcoming religious persecution.
  • My Country Tis Of 'Thee: America & John Calvin

    01/20/2005 10:12:19 AM PST · by Gamecock · 13 replies · 424+ views
    My Country 'tis Of Thee ^ | Sandor E. Chomos
    America & John Calvin The following is from a talk given on October 30, 1994 at St. John's Reformed Church, Lincoln, NE, as part of a combined service of St. John's Reformed Church (RCUS), Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA), in celebration of the Reformation of the church, began by Martin Luther on 11/31/1517. The talk was given by Sandor E. Chomos. Preceding his talk on America and John Calvin is a brief biography of Mr. Chomos which was read by Rev. Howard Hart, pastor of St. John's. ___________________________________________________________ "Blessed is the nation whose God is...
  • NYT: Christmas Past and Presents

    12/23/2004 7:35:45 AM PST · by OESY · 384+ views
    New York Times ^ | December 23, 2004 | WILLIAM B. WAITS
    FINDING the perfect gift has long been a national pastime. But the celebration of Christmas, and the culture of gift giving that accompanies the holiday, have changed significantly in America over the years. Economic and social pressures have transformed how, and with whom, we celebrate Christmas, altering it from a holiday that was at times illegal, or limited to adult parties, or a gift-giving child-centered extravaganza like today's. There are several popular misconceptions about the origins of the American version of the holiday. To start, Christmas was actually suppressed in New England's colonial days. The Puritans found no affirmative command...
  • Why Calvin Is Cool

    06/24/2004 6:58:58 PM PDT · by drstevej · 33 replies · 197+ views
    Why Calvin Is Cool An Infomercial for Calvinismby Michael SpencerI know that's Calvin Coolidge, but if I put a picture of John Calvin up there, most people won't read the column. The hostility towards Calvinism is growing here in Bibleland. Note the intrepid Dave Hunt's attempt to vanquish the Calvinistic dragon with his new book, What Love Is This?, perhaps more aptly titled, What Research Is This? Norman Geisler unsuccessfully sought to forge a via media in Chosen, But Free and Gregory Boyd and the Openness Boys (great name for a band) have been blasting away for several years now...
  • Dockery voices common ground for Calvinist, Arminian views

    02/19/2004 5:39:55 PM PST · by yonif · 6 replies · 105+ views
    BP News ^ | Feb 19, 2004 | Kathie Chute
    JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--Are Southern Baptists Calvinists? Yes and no, said David S. Dockery, president of Union University. Yes, because some Southern Baptists subscribe to Calvinist beliefs in some form; no, because all do not. Dockery told church leaders at a PreachingPoints Conference at the Jackson, Tenn., university Feb. 10 that a renewed interest in Calvinism and Arminianism in the Southern Baptist Convention could lead to divisiveness if the issues are misunderstood. "If we get hung up on these questions, rather than concentrate on a lost world," he said, "we have missed the boat. We must find areas of commonality and...
  • FUN, AN ENDANGERED CONCEPT -- The New Risk-Averse Calvinism Of Left-Lib Society

    07/06/2003 10:03:26 AM PDT · by BurkesLaw · 40 replies · 263+ views
    Iconoclast.ca ^ | by Paul Walfield
    The horrors that can be attributed to fire and explosive accidents cannot be overstated; but, depending upon your perspective, walking across the street can be a dangerous endeavor as well.....
  • Five Point Calvinism, The position of Fundamental Baptist World-Wide Mission

    04/26/2002 4:25:39 PM PDT · by fortheDeclaration · 396 replies · 837+ views
    Bible Believers Resources | Unknown | Unknown
    Five Point Calvinism The Position of Fundamental Baptist World -Wide Mission Introduction The theory which is today commonly known by the name Calvinism was first introduced by Augustine in the fourth century. He taught that Christ did not die for all men, but for a chosen few whom God had chosen and predestinated to become His children. He taught that all others were created to go to Hell. He taught that all those who were chosen to go to Heaven were as good as in Heaven and all those whom God chose to go to Hell were as good as...