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2017-05-26T09:59:34-05:00

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Did the Rapture Take Place? LDS Visitors Non-Welcome

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 9:59 am By Christy Thomas

Now, my intrepid companion and I on these church visits had spent quite a bit of time on the LDS website trying to figure out where and when to visit. Too bad all the info was nearly completely inaccessible to the non-Mormon. “Oh my goodness, the Rapture took place and we’ve been left behind!” That was our first response when driving into the parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) on Teasley Road this... Read more

2014-10-06T10:01:53-05:00

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The Church's Gay Obsession and Our Hypocrisies #UMC

Last updated on: October 6, 2014 at 10:01 am By Christy Thomas

I simply stole that headline, “The Church’s Gay Obsession” from this superb editorial in the October 5, 2014, edition of the New York Times. Frank Bruni speaks eloquently of the Catholic church’s decisions to fire various teachers and leaders in Catholic schools and parishes because they were either in same-sex relationships or decided to marry their same-sex partners in states where they could do so legally. When such actions are glibly justified by those saying things like, “They knew the rules of... Read more

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2017-09-16T13:50:17-05:00

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"Shabbat Shalom" Reform Judaism and Progressive Christianity #UMC

Last updated on: September 16, 2017 at 1:50 pm By Christy Thomas

I was delighted when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” (Psalm 122, NKJV) And so I was. Last week, I was in New York City enjoying a mini-reunion with a couple of people who had attended Rice University the same time as I. My hostess, a Jewish woman, and hearing that I was visiting varied worship services, said, “Do you want to go to shul with me tonight?” I immediately accepted, so at... Read more

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2017-05-26T10:47:57-05:00

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The Frozen Chosen and the AME Church

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 10:47 am By Christy Thomas

Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2200 N. Bell Ave, Denton, shuttered its doors on Sunday, September 21, 2014. Anyone seeking to worship there would have found an empty parking lot, no greeters, no worship about to begin. Instead, the members and choir of this Anglo “frozen chosen” Presbyterian Church headed over to the Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church, 107 East Oak Street. The previous Friday, the members of the two churches had gathered for a potluck dinner and a viewing “When... Read more

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2017-05-26T11:07:59-05:00

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Denton Bible Church: The Subtle Seduction

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 11:07 am By Christy Thomas

I felt the subtle seduction of this perfect and orderly world of Denton Bible Church pulling at me the whole time I was there. In fact, I was very nearly hypnotized by it. A lovely woman greeted me and my friend after the 9 am worship service at Denton Bible Church, located on University Drive east of TWU. She eagerly asked, “What did you think about it?” I hesitated for a moment, looking for the right words to express my... Read more

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2014-09-16T13:01:40-05:00

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Denton Mystery Worship One: The Sound of Children

Last updated on: September 16, 2014 at 1:01 pm By Christy Thomas

After attending multiple worship services this summer where children were excluded, it was a refreshing delight for me to be in one where children were obviously welcome and heard. A friend of mine, his two pre-teen sons, and I attended the 8:00 am Mass at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Denton. The sounds of babies and small children in worship, along with the youth serving in leadership roles as acolytes, open the door to worship as a community act.... Read more

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2014-09-10T09:20:52-05:00

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California Mystery Worship Six: The Roundtable Church

Last updated on: September 10, 2014 at 9:20 am By Christy Thomas

It didn’t exactly set out to be a time of worship. It was simply a social evening where I joined a friend, my friend’s daughter, her husband, and their two children for a cookout. We sat at a large, round table, enjoying the lovely Southern California evening. The children–a daughter, 14, and a son, 11, and I had met before. For some reason, teenagers like me, possibly because I genuinely like them, and they readily entered into the relaxed conversational... Read more

2016-06-28T14:27:19-05:00

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Shall We Just Call Them Mistakes?

Last updated on: June 28, 2016 at 2:27 pm By Christy Thomas

The world is ever so much easier to deal with when everything divides into two neat categories. This is good, that is bad. This is heaven, this is hell. This is day, this is night. This is right, this is wrong. This is a wave; that is a particle, except we know matter can be both waves and particles! This is what much of the “holiness code” found in the Hebrew Scriptures is about: categorizing as much of the world... Read more

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2014-09-02T15:17:15-05:00

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Let's Talk About Sex #UMC

Last updated on: September 2, 2014 at 3:17 pm By Christy Thomas

An article in the New York Times recently caught my eye. Titled, “Let’s Not Talk About Sex,” it is written by Paul A. Offit, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He writes despairingly of the very low compliance levels for the HPV vaccine. He wrote: About 79 million people in the United States have been infected with HPV, and 14 million new infections occur every year. As a consequence,... Read more

2014-09-01T15:33:03-05:00

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California Mystery Worship Five: Church Reservations Needed

Last updated on: September 1, 2014 at 3:33 pm By Christy Thomas

My first hint that this might be a radically different place to go to church was the fact that I had to make a reservation to attend. And radically different it was–full of life, music, great greetings, welcomed earplugs, and the challenge to live without fear fearlessly given. On the recommendation of a Denton-area friend who follows their music, I drove to Los Angeles for one final Sunday to attend worship at Fearless LA, a one-year old church plant. It... Read more

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