Tag: Leaders & Institutions

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be gathering together around the world this weekend, starting Saturday, for the 182nd Semiannual General Conference of the Church.

Speakers will include the president of the church and members of the church leadership including the quorum of the 12.

Last month we reported that a newly revealed piece of papyrus offers fresh evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.

On Saturday, Bhikkuni Day, Ven. Thubten Chodron of Sravasti Abbey, spoke the unversal call to better the world.

Ven. Thubten Chodron, a woman who has been central in in re-establishing the Bhikkhuni lineage, particularly in the West, said she was filled with spiritual questions growing up.

“Why am I here? What’s my purpose?” she wondered.

Sept. 29 marked the 2nd Annual International Bikkhuni Day. Nuns from the Sravasti Abbey, in Newport, were recognized at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane.

Sept. 29 marked the 2nd Annual International Bikkhuni Day. Nuns from the Sravasti Abbey, in Newport, were recognized at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane

Marcus Borg, one of the nation’s leading biblical and Jesus scholars, said in a talk in Sylvania, Ohio Sept. 21 that the message of Christianity is increasingly misunderstood because core words are misused.
Salvation, for example, is commonly used today to describe going to heaven. In the Old Testament, salvation was never about the afterlife but about being rescued from death or from enemies.