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    ReviewAll in all, the book is to be recommended for its well-balanced attempt to bring the study of Acts into fruitful conversation with contemporary hermeneutical theory >> more Review of Biblical Literature
    View Secularism - good or bad? Archbishop Nichols and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor take opposing views >> more The Tablet
    View Life after life after death >> more The Christian Century
    News Item Conservative evangelical Church of England churches threaten to withhold cash from pro-gay and liberal 'heretics' >> more The Guardian
    News Item Study argues Romney’s ‘religion problem’ is exaggerated >> more The New York Times
    View Thousands have been killed in battles between Muslims and Christians in the Nigerian city of Jos, but locals say it's not all about religion >> more Global Post
    View My take: What the Bible really says about homosexuality >> more CNN
    View On gay marriage, is Obama ‘imposing his religion’? >> more The Washington Post
    View Leadership lessons from the deck of Titanic >> more Leadership Journal
    ReviewIn Where Mortals Dwell, Bartholomew hopes to help Christians recover a sense of place and "placemaking" in distinctively Christian terms. To accomplish this, he analyzes the concept of place in the Bible and in the Western philosophical and Christian traditions, wrapping up with a discussion of how Christians can pragmatically begin the work of placemaking in their local communities >> more Books & Culture
    View Why women hear God more than men do >> more Christianity Today
    ReviewMaurice Sendak was a secular Jew, but his stories often echo the gospel >> more Christianity Today
    View Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz >> more The Christian Science Monitor
    News Item Culture war looms as Israel pledges to end ultra-Orthodox military exemptions >> more The Washington Post
    View How widespread is the use of anti-Islamic material in the US military? >> more Information Clearing House
    View Mimì Santoni, the prostitute, saw him fall to his knees with his face on the floor before he breathed his last. And to her "it was a good death, for a cardinal" >> more www.chiesa
    ReviewIt was the force of the Qur’an’s uncompromising message, more than the force of arms, which transformed Islam into what, in time, it would become >> more The Tablet
    View Battle for religious freedom is far from over >> more The Tablet
    View The real story of how "Nixon's hatchet man" ended up in, out, and back in prison (and the White House), shaping a movement in the process >> more Christianity Today
    News Item One year later, Egyptians embrace democracy, Islam in political life >> more Pew Research Center
    News Item Vatican seeking religious alliance to combat gay marriage >> more Ynet
    News Item Obama's gay marriage support riles religious conservatives, but political effects not yet clear >> more CNN
    View The Whitney biennial + the Christian icon & modernism >> more Books & Culture
    News Item 'Til delete do us part: First couple married under Swedish file-sharing religion >> more US News & World Report
    View Church attendance my be declining, but real individual religion has undergone a huge revival in the past 30 years >> more The Guardian
    News Item A caller claiming to speak for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram called a local TV station on Sunday demanding 'one on one' dialogue with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan >> more The Christian Science Monitor
    View Religious leaders, in churches, synagogues and mosques, at best voice pious and empty platitudes about justice or carry out nominal acts of charity aimed at those bearing the weight of resistance in the streets >> more Truthdig
    News Item Counter Islamists and Islam: The new religious opposition >> more The Washington Post
    ReviewIn Christian history, few rivalries have achieved the fame of that between Thomas à Becket, the middle-class Londoner, and his nemesis, King Henry II. After his butchering on the flagstones of Canterbury Cathedral, at least a dozen contemporaries wrote biographies of Becket. For the Pope, previously unconvinced of Becket’s sincerity, the martyrdom of December 1170 offered an opportunity to preach the heroism of a Church beset by secu­larism and other dark powers >> more The Tablet
    'View Unfriendly churches' to blame for people quitting church >> more The Tablet
   

News Item Indonesia's atheists face battle for religious freedom >> more The Guardian

    News Item Most church youth leader do not make a strong connection between the success of their efforts and exposing teenagers to healthy families >> more The Barna Group
    View How can we affirm human dignity when liberalism no longer can? >> more First Things
    View Can atheist billboards kill religion? >> more Religion Dispatches
    News Item Mormons and Muslims are now two of the most rapidly growing religious groups in the United States - swiping ground from the Protestants and Catholics who dominated the country throughout the 20th century >> more Mail Online
    View The widespread belief that jihad sanctions terrorism is completely false >> more Information Clearing House
    View Starting with the major attacks in Damaturu in Yobe State on November 4, 2011 and the Christmas Day series of operations in 2011, Boko Haram’s renewed focus on Christians is a departure from its previous operations, which targeted Christians more at random and did not appear to be a priority for the group >> more Combating Terorism Center
    News Item Study shows Mormonism is fastest-growing faith in half of U.S. states >> more Religion News Service
    News Item The Bad Samaritan: Religious people are LESS likely to show compassion to strangers than atheists, claim scientists >> more The Daily Mail
    News Item Religion 'riskier than porn' for online viruses >> more Sydney Morning Herald
    View Guilt gone wild. The right kind of guilt can be healthy. But false guilt depletes your soul and ministry >> more Leadership Journal
    View Weber was certainly on to something: industrialisation does break down old religious ways. In pre-industrial societies, the transcendental and the everyday were closely woven together >> more Fin24
    View Discipling the eyes through art in worship >> more Christianity Today
    ReviewTo explore and understand the sexual abuse of children and young people by clergy in Ireland and the attendant responses or, indeed, non-responses, by those in authority, is a task requiring the integration of head and heart >> more The Tablet
    View The Vatican has confronted women Religious of the United States head-on with the demand that their leadership organisation conform and reform. The row, which has caused deep unease about Vatican intervention, exposes major divides in the Church >> more The Tablet
    View The Supreme Court is weighing the legal challenge to Arizona’s strict immigration law, and religious groups opposed to the law are appealing to language throughout the scriptures “to take care of the stranger” >> more Religion & Ethics, PBS
    News Item A University of British Columbia study suggests analytical thinking can be harmful to religious faith >> more Montreal Gazette
    View "I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion" >> more The Christian Science Monitor
    View Behind the Right's phony war on the nonexistent religion of secularism >> more Rolling Stone
    View Benedict XVI will be remembered more for his homilies than for his encyclicals. And for his audacious, unconventional actions >> more www.chiesa
    View What is pastoral ministry like these days, and how is it being shaped in new ways? >> more The Christian Century
    News Item Libya bans religious, tribal or ethnic parties >> more Reuters
    News Item Religion is playing a key role in determining which presidential candidate Americans support, with President Barack Obama enjoying a wide lead over Mitt Romney among moderately and less religious voters and Romney dominating among very religious voters >> more CNN
    View A Catholic ‘war on women’ >> more The Washington Post
    ReviewRoss Douthat explains at the outset that he is going to tell us "the real story of religion in America." Which is what, exactly? "For all its piety and fervor, today's United States needs to be recognized for what it really is: not a Christian country, but a nation of heretics" >> more Books & Culture
    View Spiritual war vets. Spiritual warfare is part of our world and therefore part of our ministry >> more Leadership Journal
    View The relationship between Christianity and Capitalism >> more Information Clearing House
    View When should Mitt Romney talk about his Mormon faith? >> more ABC News
    ReviewWhy religion is good for you >> more The Tablet
    View A new report criticizes an umbrella group that represents most of the Catholic nuns in the United States for “serious doctrinal problems.” “I think you could compare it to a hostile takeover,” says reporter, author, and Vatican observer David Gibson. Might the Leadership Conference of Women Religious simply disband and reorganize on its own? >> more Ethics & Religion, PBS
    View It is not be an overstatement to say that evangelicals are experiencing a "sea change"—a paradigm shift—in their understanding of conversion and redemption, a shift that includes the way in which they think about the salvation of God, the nature and mission of the church, and the character of religious experience >> more Christianity Today
    View Why more non believers are openly identifying >> more Psychology Today
    Review10 Books on ethics >> more The Christian Century
    News Item Russia's war on religious literature: If the Kremlin doesn't like it, it's "extremist" >> more New York Daily News
    View South Korea the Asian tiger of the Church >> more www.Chiesa
    View Some people are religious. Get over it! >> more New Statesman
    View 'Heretics': The crisis of American Christianity >> more NPR Boston
    News Item Women bishops, 'pick and mix' religion and why I took my flock to a Catholic church down the road >> more Mail Online
    View When religion and spirituality collide >> more The Washington Post
    News Item Christians are being "persecuted" and "driven underground" while the courts fail to protect their religious values, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed >> more Sunday Mercury
    News Item An attempt by evangelical Christians to promote “gay cure” therapies on the sides of London buses has been banned sparking an angry row over free speech >> more The Independent
    View Catholicism’s reputation as a monolithic belief system is plainly no longer deserved >> more The Tablet
    View What is it really like to be a minister? Two United Church of Christ pastors, Rev. Lillian Daniel and Rev. Martin Copenhaver, have written a book about their experiences in the ministry and their work as pastoral leaders. It’s entitled “This Odd and Wondrous Calling” >> more Religion & Ethics, PBS
    View Simplifying sex. What some priests don’t understand about contraception >> more Commonweal Magazine
    View Religion makes people happier -- but why? >> more US News & World Report
    View The danger that Saudi Arabia will turn Syria into an Islamist hotbed >> more The Christian Science Monitor
    News Item British Prime Minister David Cameron calls on Islam to embrace democracy and reject extremism >> more The Guardian
    ReviewJeffrey C. Pugh and Tripp York are Facebook friends. Both teach religion at southern institutions of higher learning. Last year, each wrote a good-natured book about Satan >> more The Christian Century
    News Item With Santorum suspending campaign, some religious conservatives wonder how to proceed >> more LGBT Weekly
    View Whose religious freedom? >> more The Washington Post
    News Item Roman Catholic Church will lose patronage of hundreds of schools as Dublin attempts to cater to the country’s increasingly diverse population >> more The Financial Times
    View Is religion the cause of most wars? >> more The Huffington Post
    News Item A leading member of the Church of England who believes some gay people can be counselled to suppress or possibly change their sexual orientation is helping to select the next archbishop of Canterbury >> more The Guardian
    News Item Imam in France marries two gay Muslims >> more The Jerusalem Post
    View Shedding lethargy. What it takes to move people from complacency to follow Christ >> more Leadership Journal
    ReviewIn his new book, Religion for Atheists Alain de Botton argues that atheists have a great deal to learn from religion >> more The New York Times
    View Religion in foreign affairs: Charting a ‘third way’ >> more First Things
    View Religion and politics are inseparable: Get over it >> more The Huffington Post
    View Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel (CUFI) announced the “registration of their millionth member” on 18 March 2012. This organization, founded in 2006, with the goal of “realizing the political potential of tens of millions of evangelical Americans who support Israel” can also be said to have the goal of destroying, in the name of God no less, the legitimate political aspiration of Palestinian statehood >> more Information Clearing House
    News Item Religion, politics dominate Easter Sunday talk shows >> more The Los Angeles Times
    News Item Religious revival among young kiwis >> more The Press
    News Item Religious education 'downgraded', says Rowan Williams >> more The Telegraph
    ReviewThe story of what happened after Vatican II remains a “clash of narratives” >> more The Tablet
    View Should God be obeyed? Should the government? >> more The Washington Post
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Anglican schism over gay clergy inevitable >> more
My agonising path to enlightenment >> more
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National's ethics smell of political expediency >> more
Pope's trip to Holy Land fraught with potholes >> more
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Religious delusions and the Jerusalem syndrome >> more
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Furore over gay marriage echoes the conflict over slavery >> more
If only politics were as certain as dear old granny >> more
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The problem of evil >> more
TV Programmers let lose Roman circus >> more
Prostitutes welcome in the kingdom of God but not in Dannevirke >> more
Church too busy navel-gazing to take lead over crime >> more
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Faith in secular western society >> more
The Vatican's pelvic theology >> more
Abuse and the Beijing Olympics >> more
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God and presidential hopefuls >> more
A three-ghetto church based on politics >> more
Good and bad intentions >> more
Deliver us from exorcists who harm >> more
How effective is prayer? >> more
Masters of non-violence, resistance and kung fu >> more
Was Mother Teresa living a lie? >> more
Double standards over child sex abuse >> more
Soppy inspirational and pseudo-spiritual emails >> more
Caring organisations and pyschopathic bosses >> more
The new anti-religious evangelists >> more
Call for religious education could backfire >> more
Blessing creatures great & small — but what about blowflies? >> more
Does God exist only in the brain? >> more
The Prudes who crucify >> more
tomb raiders and the bones of Jesus and his family? >> more
Jesus loves Osama >> more
Is God more like a matchbox or a number? >> more
Confessions of a failed axe murderer >> more
Bacchanalian festivals and sentimentality >> more
Manners: insignificant social customs? >> more
The 109 fighting boys >> more
Trying to exhume the historical Jesus >> more
Is global violence really on the increase? >> more
Polygamy, circumcision, atheist journalists and religious diversity >> more
The Christian Right stands by Israel out of a misguided theology  >> more 
What a rat taught me >> more
The Church is becoming a retirement hobby for granny clergy >> more 
Is there an anti-Christian conspiracy in Hollywood? >> more
Have church schools sold out on Christianity? >> more
How good a Christian is President George W Bush? >> more
Life after death? >> more
Infidelity: in hot pursuit of a better orgasm or better intimacy? >> more
Different types of suicide bombers: what makes them tick? >> more
Cheating a short cut to sucess >> more
If St Peter was interviewed for ordination today >> more
Should making more money be your New Year's resolution? >> more
Da Vinci Code unlocks controversy>> more
Life after death: is it logically possible? >> more
Hitler, Lawyers, Politicians SUV owners and life after death >> more
The cartoons aren't about secular freedoms versus intolerance >> more
Christian Zionists hinder justice and peace in the Middle East >> more
Victims of dirty tricks & friendly fire: Machiavellian tactics in the Church militant >> more
My early life as a black sheep in a nativity scene >> more
Skulduggery and controversy over discovery of religious texts >> more

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