Conversations with Scripture and the increasing role played

and the increasing role played by women

Background information on theology

or cloths used at the altar—not only add beauty to a worship service

Based on the assigned biblical texts for each day of the Church year

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Conversations with Scripture and the increasing role playedAlthough the Ten Commandments has been the center of much recent controversy in American politics, scripture contains many laws about which Christians are perplexed. If the Bible contains laws, shouldn't those laws be followed? What does the law that prohibits reaping a harvest to the very edges of your field mean in modern times? Or, what about God's prohibition, in Leviticus, not to round off the hair on your temples or to mar the edges of your