conversion
Ethics and Religion Talk: Have you had family members convert out of your faith?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 05-21-2024 under OPINION
Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds: My experience of such situations is limited. One daughter married a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church. In most years, we celebrate Christmas and...
Ethics and Religion Talk: How Do I Convert to Your Faith?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 09-19-2022 under OPINION
Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds: “ ‘Conversion’ is a word with more than one meaning. There is the divine activity of the Holy Spirit in regeneration, as He works...
Ethics and Religion Talk: How Does Conversion Work?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 02-18-2020 under OPINION
Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds: “Presbyterianism holds that the church is a ‘voluntary society.’ No one may be compelled to join it, and no one should be...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Religious transformation
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 10-23-2017 under OPINION
... that we have betrayed the LORD time and time again, and that I, as a Jew, am a disgusting, filthy pig. It was nothing more than a clumsy attempt to convince me that God would love me if I became a Christian because God no longer likes Jews. The...