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Hellenism in ancient Jewish life
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It began with a papal address in Rome and ended with
a whimper in Westminster – when an attempt to change
the law on equality as it affects religious organisations
was abandoned. In between was a row that explains much about
the place of Catholicism in contemporary Britain
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Ten American missionaries arrested
in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country
after last month's earthquake have been charged with child
kidnapping and criminal association >>
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A survey of Muslims in eight
countries and the Palestinian territories finds scant enthusiasm
for Muslim political leaders and widespread perception of
a Sunni-Shia conflict, but overwhelming support for educating
girls and boys equally >>
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Jim Wallis has always been puzzled
by the way some Evangelicals specialize in quoting the six
biblical verses which refer or may refer to homosexuality,
but consider it out of bounds for believers to notice the
six hundred or six thousand that reference Mammon, money,
riches-and-poverty >>
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The Archbishop of Canterbury,
Dr Rowan Williams, believes that Britain is beset by such
a deep crisis of faith in politicians that society is being
badly damaged >>
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 From
The Rapture to Left Behind: The movie
and beyond - Evangelical Christian end times films from 1941
to the present >>
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Losing
My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in
America - and Found Unexpected Peace. Lobdell’s
repetitive theme, his epistemic mantra, is that he has experienced
the broad spectrum of Christendom. He felt the pain people
have experienced within its boundaries, seeing the corruption
and duplicitous behavior and this, brought the unavoidable
conclusion that there is no Christian God >>
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Two visions are clashing over
the future of the Chinese Catholic Church, that of the cardinal
of Hong Kong and that of Vatican diplomacy >>
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The
Kindness of God: The introduction explains
the title of the book by linking up ‘kindness ’to
‘kinship’: ‘In Middle English the words
“kind” and “kin” were the same—to
say that Christ is ‘our kinde Lord’ is not to
say that Christ is tender and gentle, although that may be
implied, but to say that he is kin—our kind >>
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Greed is God: exporting the values
of America’s prosperity heresy >>
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Christian witness in a paralyzed
democracy >>
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Victory for religious groups
as Labour gives up on Equality Bill clause condemned by Pope
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Thousands sign online petition
against Pope’s visit to Britain >>
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After organized worship, athletic
competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to
mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as
never before, experts say. Nowhere will that be more evident
than on Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 7 and during the Winter
Olympics that run from Feb. 12-28 >>
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Just when it seemed that Roman
Catholicism was a normal and natural part of the English religious
scene, Pope Benedict has to come out with a statement that
raises every residual Protestant hackle in the country. Authoritarian,
tactless, and without the muscle to back it up >>
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Ten American Baptists who tried
to leave Haiti with 33 destitute children were stuck in legal
limbo Monday, with Haitian and U.S. officials negotiating
over whether the church members should be prosecuted in the
United States >>
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In
the recent past, the Christian community was ambivalent about
sports. As long as athletes used their athletic accomplishments
as a springboard to missions—think C. T. Studd (from
cricket to China missions), Billy Sunday (from baseball to
revival ministry), and Eric Liddell (track & field to
China missions)—all was well. But to dedicate your life
to athletic excellence, especially to professional sports—well,
it was bad stewardship at best, and likely to be censured
as downright worldly >>
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Voodoo: The old religion rises
from the rubble in Haiti >>
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Pope condemns gay equality laws
ahead of first UK visit >>
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Art and idolatory. Nature divorced
from God leads to creativity divorced from creation. The apparently
triumphant human will expressing itself insistently is almost
all that’s left >>
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Pope Benedict XVI confirmed Monday
he would visit Britain later this year, a trip that has grown
fraught following his move to welcome into the Roman Catholic
Church groups of Anglicans upset over the ordination of gays
and women >>
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When sex becomes a false god
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We should not absolve Islam of
the crimes committed in its name. Rod Liddle says it’s
difficult to ignore the fact that the worst violations of
human rights happen in countries dominated by an Islamic ideology
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Is homosexuality a form of mental
illness? A small but evangelical band of psychotherapists
believe that it is – and they're on a mission to 'heal'
the afflicted >>
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Let us note at the outset that
this use of the phrase Christianity Lite is not intended
to describe all of contemporary Protestantism—far from
it. Plenty of non-Catholic churches have not rejected the
traditional Christian moral code, including some of the most
vibrant in the world today. Nor is the phrase intended to
imply that sexual issues are the only theological issues dividing
Christendom these days >>
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“Preaching to bishops,”
a long-dead churchman told me years ago, “is like farting
at skunks. You’ll win some battles, but lose the war.”
All the more so, no doubt, the higher you go >>
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Pope Benedict XVI has concluded
the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by urging the various
denominations not to let their divisions prevent them from
joining together in proclaiming gospel values to a "world
marked by religious indifference" and beset with serious
moral and ethical problems >>
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Faith-based help for Haiti >>
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The
late pope had a particular belt for self-flagellation and
brought it with him to his summer residence, according to
the book, "Why he is a Saint: The True story of John
Paul II" >>
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Australia is the most sinful
nation on the Earth, a study has claimed as the country ranked
first overall in seven deadly sins, which include lust, greed
and pride >>
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It is not just Britain which
suffers from a "broken society" but the whole world,
the Archbishop of Canterbury has said from the heart of Wall
Street >>
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Richard Dawkins - Hear the rumble
of Christian hypocrisy. The evangelist who says the Haiti
earthquake is retribution for sin is at least true to his
religion >>
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There
have been so many quests for the historical Jesus that
most of us have lost count. Albert Schweitzer famously ended
the 19th-century quest by showing that the quest authors had
succeeded only in finding their own reflections in their portraits
of Jesus. The second quest, inaugurated in the 1950s, was
essentially a rebellion against the thoroughgoing skepticism
of Rudolf Bultmann. In the latest quest, whose most publicized
voice belongs to the Jesus Seminar, we continue to meet a
bewildering variety of faces of Jesus >>
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Was the Bush faith-based initiative
a failure >>
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"I don't believe community
is created - I believe it is discovered" says mega-church
pastor Rob Bell >>
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Bishops' highly publicised defence
of discrimination in the Equality damages the image of the
church, says Savi Hensman. Their political victory in the
House of Lords this week is a moral and spiritual defeat >>
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Why I despise the hypocritical
non-believers who colonise faith schools >>
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Partial Muslim veil ban to be
recommended in France >>
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Bishops may have sealed their
fate with Equality Bill vote >>
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Rise in teenage pregnancy rate
spurs new debate on arresting it >>
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US Protestanat churches are receiving 7% less income because
of the recession and congregations are reducing spending,
cutting staff and missions and reducing facility budgets >>
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Churches panic over equality
bill >>
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Equality bill: churches and campaigners
demand clarity on religion's exemption >>
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Haiti's evangelical and voodoo
priests are providing spiritual and material aid to the homeless
and injured >>
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