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keb72
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| First Name: | Ken | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Catholic |
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 05:35 pm |
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| My wife's family grew up in The Church of Christ and I am trying to find out about their beliefs and history?
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kersca
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| First Name: | Adam | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Lutheran-Catholic |
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 06:27 pm |
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Ken,
My wife is a member of the "church of Christ". It is a church whose whole aim is to go back to what they perceive as new testament CHristianity. There is a good book called "Christ in His fullness" that records the conversion of a former cofc missionary.
There is a website called Church of Christ to Catholic as well.
http://coctocatholic.com
Also, The journey home had a roundtable of former Church of Christ members years ago.
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TerminalNewEnglander
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| Location: | Rhode Island USA |
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| First Name: | Bill | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Cradle Catholic; Lapsed Catholic; quasi-UCC; Reverted Catholic. |
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Posted: Fri Jun 20th, 2008 03:09 am |
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Also, check the cover story of the March '07 newsletter: http://www.chnetwork.org/newsletters/March07.pdf
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Steven Barrett
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| Location: | Hadley, Massachusetts USA |
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 04:35 am |
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Out of curiosity, is this sect in any way related to the Church of Boston, or Church of ... some other place in New England? I vaguely remember a regional and very hard-core Protestant church up here that went beyond sheep stealing, even between Protestants and Catholics; they had no qualms robbing other Protestant pastors' pastures and used brass knuckle tactics if turned down even politely at first.
I ran into a few at a bookstore I worked at in Hadley and no sooner than I'd mentioned the local pastor, the "proselytizer" started harping in on the guy.
No wonder the Founding Fathers were eager to put in the First Amendment, not to keep P's and C's from each others' throats, but Protestants and Protestants.
Wow.
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TerminalNewEnglander
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| First Name: | Bill | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Cradle Catholic; Lapsed Catholic; quasi-UCC; Reverted Catholic. |
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Posted: Sat Jun 21st, 2008 05:15 am |
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Steven Barrett wrote: I ran into a few at a bookstore I worked at in Hadley and no sooner than I'd mentioned the local pastor, the "proselytizer" started harping in on the guy.
Don't know...but, as an aside, my wife and I once spent a weekend in South Hadley. Part of the trip was bookstore-related: I wanted to hear mystery author Lawrence Block speak at the Odyssey Book Shop there. We also brought our bikes and rode along a bike path into Amherst. And I remember walking around the Mount Holyoke campus.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Tue Jun 24th, 2008 05:22 am |
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Bill, whatever you do on that bike path, you DON'T want to have a spill since they imbedded glass shards (for what reasons -- style? glitter?) in the asphalt. I've walked that path many a time, and it's a nice alternative to Rte 9. I walked that route to from the local mall and B & N bookstore, and I almost died. Good thing the Catholic church is close by. Bad thing is that the priest is often in Northampton.
can't win' em all! 
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Grace2U
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| Location: | Oslo, Norway |
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| First Name: | Inga | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Calvinist, briefly ICOC (the Boston movement), Pentecostal, Catholic |
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Posted: Tue Aug 19th, 2008 11:06 am |
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I was in the Boston Movement, if it helps, the International Churches of Christ they called themselves those days, with Kip McKean as the founder and leader (it was some 10 years ago...). It is one of the heirs of the Restoration movement. Just let me know if you have any questions
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