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Article: A new millenium--not without the church and not without women in the church.
- Article from:
- Women Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
- Author:
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We consider the Church as a boat which moves across time and space. The space of the Church is the whole planet and the time is God's love and mercy. What awaits us who are on the boat and who believe in God? What awaits those who do not believe in God, but have other ways, ways where people often could get lost leading them to emptiness, nihilism and worthlessness?
At the beginning of the third millennium, we have to ask the big and challenging question: Should the Church adapt itself to the World, or the World to the Church?
We, in Eastern Europe, see a big danger if the Church toys with politics and if she thinks to be more progressive or modern by ...