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A Twelve Tribes dance. The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, [5] the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, [6] the Messianic Communities, [6] and the Community Apostolic Order, [7] is a new religious movement [7]: 155 founded by Gene Spriggs that sprang out of the Jesus movement in 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [2]
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a nonfiction book by J. Anthony Lukas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985, that examines race relations in Boston, Massachusetts, through the prism of desegregation busing. [1] It received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [2] the National Book Award for ...
Samaritan woman at the well. The Water of Life Discourse between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well by Angelika Kauffmann, 17th–18th century. The Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John. John 4:4–42 relates her conversation with Jesus at Jacob's Well near the city of Sychar.
Church influences. [edit] The Catholic Church has influenced the status of women in various ways: condemning abortion, divorce, incest, polygamy, and counting the marital infidelity of men as equally sinful to that of women. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The church holds abortion and contraception to be sinful, recommending only natural birth control methods ...
Christ and the woman taken in adultery, drawing by Rembrandt. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is a likely pseudepigraphical [1] passage (pericope) found in John 7:53 – 8:11 [2] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives.
Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Along with other Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she was influential within a small group of early Adventists who formed what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Joyce M. Bennett - first English woman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion. Miriam Byrne - provost in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell - priest and former businesswoman. Barbara Clementine Harris - first woman consecrated as bishop in the Episcopal Church USA, and in the Anglican communion.
Herbert W. Armstrong (July 31, 1892 – January 16, 1986) was an American evangelist who founded the Worldwide Church of God (WCG). An early pioneer of radio and television evangelism, Armstrong preached what he claimed was the comprehensive combination of doctrines in the entire Bible, in the light of the New Covenant scriptures, which he maintained to be the restored true Gospel. [3]