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The Global “Day” of Prayer is Pentecost Sunday, May 11, 2008 this year. The days of prayer preceding it however are Ascension Day through Pentecost - May 1st through the 11th.
Though the modern Global Day of Prayer movement “started” in one sense in the year 2000, in reality the feasts of Pascha (the Christian Passover [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues a series of articles on Congregational Missions (Click to see more articles on this theme!). Here we see another pioneering effort in Bible Translation by Congregational Missions and other important part of the UCC story.

(c) 2008 Rev. Phil Corr Ph.D.
In my previous article I wrote about Bible translations by Congregational missionaries [...]

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In the Provisional Liturgy of the German Reformed Church developed in the 1850’s under the guidance of Philip Schaff (image right) and John Williamson Nevin, the services of worship developed began with a statement that may seem strange to modern ears. This was not a formula reserved for communion services alone, but for all the [...]

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Editor’s Note: This article on Congregational Missions is dedicated by Phil Corr to Mr. Will Johnson one of our readers who has expressed his appreciation of Dr. Corr’s articles, especially those involving Hawaii. Read the other articles on Congregational Missions at the link Congregational Missions
“King Kamehameha I had united the islands by force of arms. [...]

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This is the fifth installment in a series on Congregational Missions.
(c) 2008 by Dr. Phil Corr
Titus Coan lived such an amazing life that I am going to use two sources (one of which includes Coan’s own words) to describe his obedience to God and service to people.
The first source is the 1969 Hawaiian [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in a series on Congregational Missions.
(c) 2008 by Dr. Phil Corr
In my previous post I made reference to the Hawaiian Christina John Honolii bringing a fellow Hawaiian to Christ. Not long after returning to what were then called the Sandwich Islands, Honolii visited the partially [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a series on Congregational Missions. The pre-Christian worship of Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands was the “Kapu System” which in addition to a caste system had an extensive system of taboos. To break them was to be punished by death. In the providence of God, 6 [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a series on Congregational Missions. From the beginning the postmillennial vision of Ameican Congregationalists lead them to promote the Good News of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth at great cost. May their efforts inspire us to undertake the work of Christ’s kingdom [...]

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Editor’s Note: The United Church of Christ is known for it’s bold attempts at ecumenism among the various branches of the reformation churches. What the heat of rhetoric could not achieve in Bucer’s day - a merger of the Lutheran and the Reformed - was achieved through the heat of pietism in the crucible of [...]

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When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was [...]

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