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10 Saturday, January 29,1994 RELIGION The SaUna Journal BRIEFLY Festival of Sharing raises $6,000 The Festival of Sharing celebration in November at Beloit resulted in almost $6,000 in contributions the most successful year ever for the charity. The festival committee distributes resources to hunger and service agencies throughout Kansas. The committee has scheduled the 1994 festival for Nov. 12 in the Concordia area. Church has new meeting site All Saints Orthodox Church is now meeting at 2818 Scanlan Ave.

Great Vespers will be at 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays. On Sundays, Orthros is prayed at 8:30 a.m., Divine Liturgy at 9:30 a.m. and Christian Education begins at 11 a.m. For information, call 823-3735.

Critics denounce women's conference Salinasetfor Souper Bowl Sunday is the Super Bowl and It is also the day for another Souper Bowl at Salina churches. Patrons are encouraged to bring a can of soup to their church in support of their favorite team. The soup will be distributed by Emergency Food Bank, Rescue Mission and the Salvation Army. First Church of God has new pastor The Rev. Milton B.

Kemp has arrived in Salina to assume the duties of pastor at the First Church of God, 1311 Meyer. Rev. Kemp previously served as pastor at the Willow Grove Church of God at Dover, for 13 years. From Staff Reports By GEORGE W.CORNELL The Associated Press A theological hubbub has broken out over an ecumenical conference on women that Invoked "Sophia, Creator God," and used other feminine irriages of the deity. The furor is the latest round of conflict over attempts to modify pervasively male references to God as "He" or "Father" and to bring out biblical indications that God also has "motherly" qualities.

However, some unusually graphic feminizing of the divine at a "Re- imagining" women's conference in Minneapolis, last November produced some unusually sharp denunciations. United Methodist Bishop Earl Hunt of Lake Junaluska, N.C., says deifying Sophia is an "attempt to reconstitute the godhead. No comparable heresy has appeared in the church in the last 15 centuries." SPECIAL EVENTS The Bclmont Boulevard Christian Church, 2508 Belmont will host a pancake supper and bingo party at 5:30 tonight, in the church's Fellowship Hall. The Trinity Lutheran Church, Tenth and Crawford, will honor the coordinators of their Tender Loving Care program at both church services Sunday. The coordinators are responsible for the congregation's eight groups.

The Mentor United Methodist Women, Mentor, will serve their an- nual pancake supper beginning at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in the church's Fellowship Hall. The cost is $2.50 for adults and $1 for children. There also will be a bake sale. The Salina Ministers Association will have their next meeting at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday at the Salina Rescue Mission, 336 N. 13th. Roger Neff will speak about the work of the mission. The presentation will be recorded for showing on Salina cable channel 6. The Immanuel Lutheran Church, 225 S.

Seventh, is still taking reservations for their Valentine's Dinner at 6 p.m. on Feb. 5 in the church's Fellowship Hall. The dinner will be catered by Brookville Hotel. Tickets cost $7.50 per person and are payable at the door.

The Scouts of Troop No. 214 invite the public to a spaghetti supper from 4 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 6 at the Trinity United Methodist Church, 901 E. Neal.

The cost is $4 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12. enrich your rSj2 spiritual rh life ATTEND CHURCH "Yes, I would like to join the bowling team. It sounds like fun; but I don't want to be embarrassed. I'm new at this. I'll just roll those awful gutter balls!" No one ever began as an expert.

It takes a lot of gutter balls to result in a strike. Without trying, you haven't a chance. Go for it! So it is with life; every gutter ball is a potential strike, but you must read the rules. First, get on your feet, and have faith in yourself and in God. You will be able to take a firm stand and face in the right direction.

Then take some thought behind it. Lastly, get a firm grip and go for it! Remember, everyone needs practice. Review God's Word often and you will maintain your courage as you visit God each Sabbath. The Mighty Counselor is on your team. You can't lose.

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Kathi Austin Mahle of St. Paul, co- chairwoman of a steering committee that planned the event. She said it was "definitely in a Christian context not We wanted to set it within a biblical context, both the Old Testament and the New Testament. I think we achieved what we set out to do to provide women a place to enter into theological dialogue." Besides venerating Sophia as a goddess, critics also charged the conference included self-identified lesbians as speakers, used bodily images to express the divine, held a workshop on belly dancing, downgraded the doctrine that God and humanity are reconciled through Christ's sacrifice on the cross and used rites from other religions such as an American Indian tobacco ritual. Sophia is the Greek word meaning "wisdom" and is portrayed by female pronouns in the Bible.

Some groups historically have personified Sophia, invoking her in prayers. The Rev. James Heidinger of Wilmore, editor of a conservative United Methodist periodical, Good News, said the event "was the most theologically aberrant I have ever read about, far removed from the Christian tradition." Readers were supplied with a pullout postcard calling on the church's women's division to "repudiate the radical teachings of the conference," make a "public apology to the church" and promise "no further involvement in similar gatherings." About 2,200 participants nearly all women were from 49 states and 27 countries. More than half were either Presbyterians or Methodist in background. The Rev.

Jeanne Audrey Powers, an executive of the United Methodist Church's Council on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, says the concept of Sophia is just beginning to be incorporated into Christian speech. Powers defines Sophia as "the encountering of divine wisdom." She said that sadly feminist scholars who have "begun to find feminine elements in the godhead and who are seeking to remain within the church are sometimes condemned as radicals for trying to find elements in Scripture and tradition that they can relate to as women." WORSHIP AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE VII Saints Orthodox Church Now Meeting at 2818 Scunlan Ave. Saturday Vespers Will pm Sun. Divine Liturgy ....0:30 am Christian Education 11:00 am Phone 823-2318 or 823-3735 Klmlmrsi ohm I'lislni- Al Kin-Id's Asst. I'aMnr Norman Similar School urn '-jjjjj Siiniliiy Worship am pm l-'amily Ninlit Weil.

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