As the saying goes, ¨You don´t know what you´ve got ´til it´s gone¨. Anyone who has done mission work in Latin America can appreciate that saying. For those who have not been to a Latin American country, I thought it would be interesting to give you a description of my new hometown and life here.…
Wonderful are the promises for those who follow Jesus, our Shepherd. Yet Jesus warns of some who … Are not His sheep, for they did not heed to His voice. Though in His flock (kingdom), will one day be cast out. Yes, Jesus described a day in which the sheep and goats will be parted.…
In today’s world of fad oriented Christian teaching, one could certainly ask the question whether or not education serves any real purpose in the life of most Christian believers. Even the Sabbath School Quarterly approach used by Sabbath and traditional churches was developed by D. L. Moody to reach the illiterate classes in the Chicago…
In every story their lies a grain of truth; the plays of William Shakespeare are no exception. The Elizabethan playwright modified many stories he heard for the stage. The Merchant of Venice, written in 1596, might be based on St. Anthony of Padua who lived four centuries earlier. Both persons were involved with shipwrecks, foreign…
Very few people in the United States are familiar with the Cristera Rebellion, an armed conflict between the Mexican federal government and the Roman Catholic Church that took place from 1924 to 1928, during the presidency of Plutarco Elias Calles. Although presented by the Church as a persecution, it was in fact a political stance…
(Ed. Note: On May 24, 2015, I became the second Presiding Bishop of the International Old Catholic Churches. I decided after being asked to do so, to publish my first letter to the church as my From the Editor this edition.) To my brothers and sister of the IOCC, Grace and peace of God our…
It is an issue that comes up from time to time, usually from people who have never heard of us or who have heard vicious rumors and lies spread by insecure and scared individuals – the validity of the Old, Emergent and Independent Catholic Churches. But fewer people know the real truth about how the…
Since the beginning of the reformation movement, religious movements have moved away from older traditional styles of worship to more a “contemporary” and vernacular form of worship. And while the translation into a vernacular language of texts such as the Bible as well as the preaching of the Gospel made the good news of Christ’s…
