The CBCP and NCCP will be gathering for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with the theme “they showed us unusual kindness” inspired from the text on Acts 27:18–28:10. From the World Council of Churches: The materials for the 2020 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity have been prepared by the Christian churches […]
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2020 Theme: Christ In Me, Christ Through Us
Open Table Church is a progressive Christian Church and we believe that who we are and the spiritual practice of our faith should be based on the one we follow and believe to be the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. Our faith-community, diverse in so many ways yet gathered together, are formed and informed by the […]
Let Us Pray and Work for Peace
With the assassination of a top military leader of Iran, the world is under threat of another war between the US and Iran. Currently, there is still an ongoing war-conflict in Yemen. Syria remains to be torn apart by war and violence. Some called the Syrian conflict a proxy war between the US and Russia-Iran. […]
New Year 2020 Message: Reflect in Our Past So We Can Move Forward
So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. Psalm 90:12 (NRSV) Magbabagong taon nanaman, 2020. At magtatapos na ang 2019. Kamusta ang inyong 2019? Masaya? Malungkot? Nagka-jowa na ba, o single pa rin? May mga success ba tayo o failures? Ano ba ang naging buhay natin ngayong 2019? Marahil […]
No Room This Christmas
NO ROOM!By Professor Revelation VeluntaNew Testament & Cultural StudiesUnion Theological Seminary (PH) This is the reality of our world today. There is no room. No room for refugees. No room for Lumads. No room for the Rohingya. No room for Palestinians. No room for PLHIV. No room for LGBTQi. No room for the other. No […]