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Indulgences Are Still for Sale

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Scott Gustafson

The selling of indulgences did not stop with the Reformation. Originally, indulgences linked prayer and repentance with forgiveness: specified actions of good works or penance drew on the ‘treasury of […]

 Articles, Current Events, Random Reflections  christian nationalism, church, crusade, indulgences, politics, power

Preparing for Two-Way Transformation

March 19, 2020February 26, 2020 Hikmat Kashouh

Editorial note: This article is part 3 of a multipart series by Dr. Hikmat Kashouh. We must not forget that the gospel (the good news) transcends both the preacher and […]

 Book Excerpt, Current Events  church, growth, Middle East, transformation

Visiting, Serving and Listening as Missional Methodology

March 10, 2020February 26, 2020 Hikmat Kashouh

Editorial note: This article is part 2 of a multipart series by Dr. Hikmat Kashouh. Visiting When people in the West ask me, “What should we do to reach the […]

 Book Excerpt, Current Events  church, incarnate, listen, serve

Supporting Churches in the Arab World

February 27, 2020February 26, 2020 Hikmat Kashouh

Editorial note: This article is part 1 of a multipart series by Dr. Hikmat Kashouh. In 2011, when the war in Syria broke out and Syrians started to flee to […]

 Book Excerpt, Current Events  Arab, church, partnership, West

4 Christian Responses to Supremacist Ideology

April 18, 2019July 8, 2020 Wissam al-Saliby

The recent massacre of Muslim worshipers in New Zealand was the manifestation of a growing global phenomenon which has been described as nationalist populism, white nationalism, extreme supremacist ideology, xenophobia, […]

 Articles, Current Events  church, fear, Islamophobia, John 17, unity

Priesthood of All Believers or Priesthood of the Ordained?

August 2, 2018July 30, 2018 Elie Haddad

This article is adapted from a post on the ABTS blog on July 26, 2018. In my last blog post in February, I wrote about women in seminary. I based my main argument on the […]

 Random Reflections  church, ecclesiology, missions

Jerusalem’s Impact on Middle Eastern Christians

January 25, 2018July 8, 2020 Martin Accad

This post first appeared in Jordan Brief – January 2018 which was posted on the IMES blog on January 5, 2018. On Sunday 17 December, King Abdullah of Jordan met with top leaders […]

 Current Events  Christian, Christmas, church, israel/palestine, Jerusalem, Jordan

Why We Stand and Pray this International Day of Prayer

November 4, 2017July 8, 2020 Gabriella Culpepper

Christian advocacy groups estimate more than 200 million believers — 10 percent of the global Christian population — are currently experiencing high or extreme levels of persecution. If there is […]

 Current Events  church, Gospel, Jesus, love, prayer

Light After Darkness: A Syrian Mother’s Story of Pain, Hope, and Learning to Dream Again

August 10, 2017July 8, 2020 LSESD (Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development)

This article first appeared July 21, 2017 at Food for the Hungry. Across languages and cultures, mothers can relate to the deep emotions that children bring. Mothers carry a  daily […]

 Middle East Life, Stories  church, hope, refugee, Suffering, Syrian War

The Opposite Way

July 27, 2017July 8, 2020 Mindy Belz

The full version of this article first appeared July 22, 2017 at WORLD Magazine as “The Opposite Way” by Mindy Belz. PARIS—At Guy Moquet metro stop on line 13, no one is […]

 Islam in General, Stories  church, Europe, France, Islam, refugee, Refugee Crisis

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How are Indulgences still for sale today?While the medieval ages may be over, linking salvation, duty, and honor with a legitimization of hostility in the name of God is not. Hostile actions take the form of discrimination, verbal attacks, contemptuous speech, and slanderous social media. Intimidation is justified by slick preachers who erect scaffolds of misinterpretations of Jesus and the money-changers, Phineas or David’s military campaigns to issue apocalyptic fear and justify hostility.Read on: acts211.org/indulgences-are-still-for-sale/ ... See MoreSee Less

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The evangelical church may have formed as a result of opposition to these excesses and may not sell indulgences for cash or participation in literal crusade, but promises of salvation are still tightl...
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