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The Fourth of July. How does
a Christian celebrate? >>
more The Christian Century |
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American evangelicalism: new
leaders, new faces, new issues >>
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Civil libertarians are infuriated
at special regulations coming into force for the upcoming
Catholic World Youth Day event in Sydney, Australia, where
Pope Benedict XVI will be the guest of honour. Legal experts
say that restrictions will effectively make it illegal to
dissent from the event, and have already described them as
"draconian, repugnant and unnecessary" >>
more Ekklesia |
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In his year-and-a-half-long run
for president, Obama has visited churches and synagogues,
but no mosque. This has the musty feel of light-skinned African-Americans
passing for white, paranoid over daylight visits from dark-skinned
relatives >>
more Boston Globe |
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Reading the Bible with Obama.
The presidential candidate crosses swords with Dr. Dobson
over hermeneutics >>
more Christianity Today |
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The crisis in the Church of England over homosexuality
is a personal one for the Archbishop of Canterbury himself.
Whether you are a supporter or not, a Christian or a non-believer,
it is increasingly clear - as the threat of schism over homosexuality
and women priests intensifies - that the leader of the Established
Church is in a false position >>
more Times Online |
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Tibetan Buddhists. They teach
nonviolence, but their demonstrations against the Chinese
have sometimes become violent. How can they persuade the Chinese
that they and the Dalai Lama are not a threat? >>
more PBS |
 Shea,
a writer who made it her business to visit fifty-two churches
in a year, and to write a chapter about each one. It's a lot
of churches. It's a lot of chapters >>
more Books & Culture |
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In a statement Dr Rowan Williams
said that the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) declaration
was theologically and practically 'problematic' and it was
wrong to assume that those outside the GAFCON network were
'proclaiming another gospel' >>
more Ekklesia |
| Protesters
planning to hand out condoms to Catholic pilgrims during Pope
Benedict XVI's visit to Australia this month face arrest under
special new police powers >>
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I once said to Rowan Williams:
'God has given you all the gifts and, as your punishment,
he has made you Archbishop of Canterbury.' I might have added:
'at this time', for the issue over which the Anglican Communion
is so divided is one that might have been specially selected
to tear Rowan in two >>
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As the wider Anglican Communion
fragments over homosexuality, England’s established
Church is moving towards its own crisis with a crucial vote
on women bishops this weekend >>
more Times Online |
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Harvard University’s Institute
of Politics 14th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public
Service, released in April 2008, found that young people turned
out in record numbers for primaries and caucuses. The poll
found that 37 percent of young voters reported that religion
is a very important part of their lives and 45 percent expected
it to become more important as they grew older >>
more Harvard University Institute
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No one remembers Hasna Maryi
ever opening her family's Koran. She rarely attended her village
mosque, and she told others she regarded the imam, who once
made a pass at her, as a lecherous scoundrel. It was not religious
extremism that made this villager from Anbar province blow
herself up at an Iraqi-police checkpoint last summer, killing
three officers and injuring at least 10 civilians >>
more Time Magazine |
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The Russian Orthodox Church ruled
on Friday that a bishop who has accused the church's leaders
of forming an unholy alliance with the Kremlin will be defrocked
unless he repents >>
more Reuters |
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Conservative Anglican leaders
vowed on Sunday to stay in the worldwide Anglican Communion
but form a council of bishops to provide an alternative to
churches they say are preaching a "false gospel"
of sexual immorality >>
more Reuters |
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The pope does not put on Prada,
but Christ >>
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Roberts' book Creation and Covenant is without
a whiff of homophobia, yet he takes issue with "revisionist"
efforts to rework church teaching on the necessity of gender
difference for marriage. The bulk of the book is an exploration
of the theological significance of gender difference in celibacy
and marriage from the church's earliest days to now >>
more Christian Century |
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Churches around the world will
pray for the peoples of the Pacific as an international church
initiative against violence focuses attention on the region
this year >>
more Ekklesia |
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A "second reformation"
is under way, say conservative bishops and clergy meeting
at the controversial Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon)
in Jerusalem. Gafcon leaders have described the breakaway
conference attended by traditionalists who oppose gay priests
and the blessing of same-sex partnerships as a "rescue
mission" to the Anglican Communion and a "godly
instrument" to bring about repentance and change >>
more The Tablet |
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Even after he secured the nomination
and Clinton's endorsement, there has been talk - gleeful talk
among Republicans - that Obama has a "Catholic problem".
To some extent it is a Democratic problem; George W. Bush
out-polled John Kerry (a Catholic) among Catholic voters in
2004 >>
more The Tablet |
| A
lucid account of eight mystics refutes the notion that
"all religions are the same at the top" >>
more Books & Culture |
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Unapologetic apologist. Jay Smith
confronts Muslim fundamentalists with fundamentalist fervor
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more Christianity Today |
| Anglican
wrangling about sexuality and authority in the church is missing
the big picture about how the relationship between religion
and society is changing >>
more Ekklesia |
