by Ryan Cragun, University of TampaThe hashtag #TaxTheChurches began trending on Twitter in mid-July.The spark was allegations about the wealth of celebrity pastor Joel Osteen. But it wasn t the first time that “tax the churches" has circulated. In fact it is slogan that long predates social media –.
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The pastor who leads a church body in fellowship with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and a laywoman who is a member of the Finland parliament are being charged for hate crimes against homosexuals for teaching Biblical sexual ethics. They face two years in prison.
The Population Bomb Orders & Disorders To understand the change in Protestant thought and practice, we need to understand
the Protestant vision of family and fertility, particularly as expressed by Luther
and Calvin, and how it has changed over the last hundred years. Early sixteenth-century Europe was an era very different from ours. The late medieval Church claimed about one of every four adults in celibate orders, serving either as priests, nuns, or monks or in celibate military and trading groups such as the Teutonic Knights. Over the centuries, the religious orders had, through bequests, accumulated vast landed estates and gathered in the wealth that came through this ownership