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As for the Trinity question, we can hardly avoid to err to the one or the other side. Either "modalism" (there is only one person in three different roles or costumes) or "tritheism". And I think that tritheism is the worse danger - People believing that there was one judge who p...

Didn't read the whole replies, so sorry, if I repeat something already said. Was extremely bored by my home Protestant services because they were so much sermon-centered. And you could always foresee what the preacher would say - I then quipped that it was just what he had read three days before in ...

Myself I have marked "political reasons" which I only will repeat in short. The progressive movement in the 14th and 15th century had Christians face a serious problem: either striving for political power or else forming a "sub-" resp."counterculture" and a "parall...

There seem to be a lot of people here who are not born into Anabaptist families, but feel attracted. And as Anabaptists are baptized only as grown-ups even those who are born into Anabaptist families have to make a conscious choice which can be explained. So could we please get an oversight about th...

When I started reading Christian sites in the United States, the "U.S. empire" was a real matter. I vaguely remember that there was a site called "After empire what" - meaning that Christians had overcome their ties to the U.S. empire and now had to find out the alternatives. Of ...

Ken quotes his source: "He subsequently resigned from the ROC and was banned from preaching ahead of his church trial in June." Sounds improbable. If he really dropped his membership in the ROC, in what way will they "try" him? Either the first part of the statement is wrong or t...

But was Burdin damned or punished in an ecclesatical court? From all I have found, the following seems to have happened: Burdin called the Russian (so-called) "special operation" a war. Then he was condamned by a state court. There he based himself on the authority of his church. Therafter...

My two points are: Don't do it, as long as it is fashionable. For example: four-part-singing may have been a problem hundred years ago, but nowadays it is no more fashionable, so why not do it? Make visible that people cannot expect you to share their ideas. Because this is the basic danger: We all ...

"Puritan" has mostly been used for the political side (or arm) of the reformed Churches. The typical instance being the Puritan movement around Cromwell. As an opposition, Puritanism has meant a holy (civil) war against the "sinful" government. When in government, Puritans are oc...

I like the traditional Catholic distinction between mortal sins and venial sins. A venial sin is not so bad in itself - but making venial sins a habit leads to the kind of ruthlessness or shallowness or ignorance which leads to a mortal sin. Gay behaviour in itself is hardly more than a venial sin. ...