during these protests were King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the group the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR). One of the local judges issued a blanket injunction against all forms of protesting and the leaders of the non-violent resistance, King included, yet they decided to protest anyway (Rieder, 2014). King, among a few other leaders of the movement were arrested on April 12th. Under imprisonment, many have speculated that the intention of those in power was to break King’s spirit: he was placed in a dark cell without even a mattress and was… Continue Reading...
Christian leadership helps to promulgate and stabilize the church and its values.
The third theme in Acts is the discernment of God’s activity. As churches and Christian communities are comprised by human beings with faults… Continue Reading...
own redefinition of faith. As Harrington (1991) puts it, “Matthew uses the scribes and Pharisees as negative examples to define true Christian leadership,” (p. 323). From the opening of Matthew 23, readers learn that the Pharisees, who can symbolize all people in positions of authority or power, often fail to practice what they preach. The core theme of Matthew 23 is hypocrisy.
Interestingly, Harrington (1991) also notes that Jesus exhibits a “resistance to hierarchically structured roles,” and an “emphasis on equality,” issues that could easily become central themes in a homily. A sermon could… Continue Reading...