Anti-Muslim Bigotry Directed at Mamdani
- By RileyG
- American Politics
- 107 Replies
This! You beat me to it
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What is God’s ‘Kin-dom’?
- By RileyG
- General Theology
- 13 Replies
Note: Apparently, Ada Maria Isasi Diaz was a Cuban Catholic involved with Liberation theology. She was controversial because she ministered to her nephew's same-sex wedding at a Unitarian Church and supported the ordination of women in the Catholic Church. She died relatively young at 69. Hmmm.....In some progressive circles of Christianity in the United States, the term "Kin-dom" has become increasingly used in recent decades as another name for "Kingdom," as in "God's Kin-dom" or "the Kin-dom of Jesus."
At the United Methodist Church General Conference held last year, for example, openly lesbian Bishop Karen Oliveto preached a sermon to delegates that referenced the phrase.
In an article published last month, Presbyterian News Service, the news outlet of the Presbyterian Church (USA), quoted a pastor who spoke of "standing on the kin-dom side of history."
But where does the term come from, and why was it created?
The first confirmed use of the term came from Catholic modernist theologian Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, a theological liberal who spoke of the concept in a 1996 book titled Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-first Century.
The phrase has gained popularity among those who seek what they believe is a less patriarchal or imperial description of the Kingdom of God.
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What is God’s ‘Kin-dom’?
A look into the origins of the term Kin-dom and the dispute over its validitywww.christianpost.com
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Christian groups urge Scottish gov't to reject 'extreme' abortion up to birth proposals
- By RileyG
Praying for the protection of all the unborn! 
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Lebanese Catholics abroad await Pope Leo XIV’s visit to their homeland with hope
- By RileyG
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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St. Maron and St. Chabrel, pray for us!
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Democrats finally vote to open Government
- By Yarddog
- General Politics
- 22 Replies
Yep, that's why it was so popular among Americans. People were finally able to get life saving operations and treatment, which they couldn't receive before the ACA. Republicans tried to kill Obamacare, over and over, but voters rebelled and Republicans knew they had to keep it.
And Republicans will answer as they did this time. NO, NO, NO. In the mean time, people will be losing their coverage.
Changes to Medicaid, the ACA and other key provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Stay up to date on OBBBA implementation and related federal rulemaking with resources from the AMA.
www.ama-assn.org
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JD Vance, his Hindu wife and Christian conversion: Indian uproar
- By eleos1954
- General Politics
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"Note that Vance has not suggested coercion or ultimatum. In fact, he has explicitly rejected force, saying, “But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn't cause a problem for me.”A debate has erupted online and in Indian social circles worldwide. The subject is U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who has been criticized for hoping that his Hindu wife, Usha, might one day share his Christian faith.
To right-wing Hindu extremists and left-wing elites, this is exaggerated as an act of war — proselytization, cultural assault, a colonial echo. The outrage is loud and the accusations swift. Yet beneath the noise lies a profound misunderstanding, not only of JD Vance, but of Christianity itself.
At a TPUSA event and in subsequent social media commentary, Vance spoke about his spiritual journey. When asked about Usha, a brilliant attorney raised in a Hindu home, he offered this reflection: “Do I hope, eventually, that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that … I hope she may one day see things as I do."
Note that Vance has not suggested coercion or ultimatum. In fact, he has explicitly rejected force, saying, “But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn't cause a problem for me.”
This is not proselytization. It is love, the kind Jesus modeled. Conversion in Christian theology is not a human transaction but a spiritual encounter. Jesus warned against forcing faith; in the Parable of the Sower, some seeds take root and others do not. Growth cannot be commanded.
Vance understands this truth. His critics do not.
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JD Vance, his Hindu wife and Christian conversion: Indian uproar
The contradiction is glaring Hinduism can export, but Christianity must not import
He is correct with this ... they have chosen to not make it a stumbling block ... I am certain he prays for her continuously
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