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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches
In Oktober 2015 het die Algemene Sinode van die NG Kerk ’n merkwaardige besluit oor selfdegeslagverhoudings geneem. Die besluit het erkenning gegee aan sulke verhoudings en dit vir predikante moontlik gemaak om gay en lesbiese persone in die eg te verbind. Ook die selibaatsvereiste wat tot op daardie stadium vir gay predikante gegeld het, is opgehef. Met hierdie besluit het die NG Kerk die eerste hoofstroomkerk in Suid-Afrika en Afrika geword wat totale gelykwaardige menswaardige behandeling van alle mense, ongeag seksuele oriëntasie, erken – en is gedoen wat slegs in ’n handjievol kerke wêreldwyd uitgevoer is. Die besluit het egter gelei tot groot konsternasie. Verskeie appèlle en beswaargeskrifte is ingedien, distriksinodes het hulle van die besluit distansieer, en in die media was daar volgehoue kritiek en debat.
Stories from a Place That Feels Like Home
Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost
forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values,
evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks
looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to do what
was right--no matter the cost.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the
twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one
of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and
be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with
more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well
as inspires from his small-town front porch.
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