The NCOV-19, also known as coronavirus, is NOT a punishment from God. It’s a disease like any other virus that gets passed on and kills indiscriminately. It knows no race, gender, nationality nor any religion. There have been viruses and different diseases ever since life existed on Earth. Some viruses continue to exist, mutate and […]
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Modern-Day Idolatry? A Progressive Christian Perspective
Religious idolatry today. Rigid obsession and absolutism. Rigid obsession for tradition deemed as absolute is idolatry. Rigid obsession for a single and absolute interpretation of or any scripture is idolatry. Rigid obsession for Church hierarchy as absolute mediators is idolatry. Rigid obsession for one and only form of worship is idolatry. Idolatry is a rigid […]
One In Christ (Week of Prayer in Christian Unity)
1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (NRSV) For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink […]
Open Table MCC’s Relief Operation for Taal Evacuees
Due to the generosity of our community and people who gave, we were able to come up with 60 hygiene bags for 60 families. We were also able to give 4 sacks rice (25kg) of which one sack was given to UTS donation drop off; And a box of canned goods. We are thankful for […]
The Spirit of Bayanihan During Taal Evacuation
As of January 15, CNN Philippines reported that there are 43,681 evacuees staying in 217 evacuation centers. Several thousand of them were residents from the volcano island itself from where they can no longer go back to. Aside from the 43 thousand evacuees, more people and communities have been impacted by the eruption. We are […]