Rather than simply judging the addict, a more enlightened understanding is emerging. Addiction is, more often, being understood in terms of disease. George Hunter, in his brilliant text The Celtic Way of Evangelism, adds in a key concept, denial, and its role as a defense mechanism: “addicts deny what is obvious to everyone else in Read more
George Hunter points out that addiction itself has an attractive, worshipful quality. It can become, itself, as a religion. He writes of its consuming nature, especially at its late stages, where: “addiction becomes one’s religion, drugs become one’s God, and rituals of use become rites of worship.” It is important to recognize, acknowledge and deal Read more
The author of The Celtic Way of Evangelism discusses Meri Whitaker and the Serenity United Methodist Church… a church that “wants the people who wouldn’t ‘fit’ in most churches and, she reports, if someone cusses in church, ‘nobody gets bent out of shape!’”
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
