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liberal mistake has been to assume that ethics alone are the
touchstone of Christian authenticity, with the result that
the “ontological question” of the meaning of homosexuality
is bypassed >>
more The Tablet |
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Another exemption for faiths.
Minister of Education has amended his own bill, giving faith
schools an opt-out on sex education. Why the special treatment?
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The numbers of people getting
married in Britain are decreasing and the sharpest falls are
in church weddings, particularly Catholic ones. Here, an expert
on the institution argues that one cause of the decline is
our diffidence in advocating the merits of marriage >>
more The Tablet |
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Fully one-in-four members of
the Millennial generation -- so called because they were born
after 1980 and began to come of age around the year 2000 --
are unaffiliated with any particular faith >>
more Pew Research Center |
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Witchcraft is the most benign
of all the silly religions. Please don't lump witches in with
Jedi >>
more Guardian |
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Should churches be as friendly
as a bar? Perhaps people are looking for something else >>
more Christianity Today |
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'A heinous crime': Pope Benedict
XVI speaks out at summit over child abuse scandals in Irish
Catholic Church >>
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Thousands of Christians across
the world have been joining a “Fast for Life”
to reflect on their own consumption and commit to doing what
they can to contribute to global food security >>
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Bible
Babel does aim to underscore the persistence of the biblical
in contemporary culture. So Swenson appropriately refers to
films like "Monty Python's Life of Brian," "Magnolia,"
"The Seventh Seal" and "The Seventh Sign,"
"The Omen" and "Evan Almighty." She describes
the "Left Behind" novels in her discussion of the
apocalyptic end-time, while Madonna, Black Sabbath and "The
Da Vinci Code" make the obligatory brief appearances.
She even points to "a Christian website that sells sex
toys." This is not your father Abraham's guide to the
Good Book >>
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In hard times, Americans blame
the poor >>
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Ashes to ashes. How an early
tradition of pre-Lenten repentance developed into our modern
practice of Ash Wednesday >>
more Christian History |
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Church leaders are urging people
to give up iPods rather than chocolate this Lent as part of
a 'technology fast' to save the planet as well as our souls
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As Shell faces a lawsuit in the
Netherlands over alleged oil pollution in Nigeria, and a fresh
challenge over plans to drill oil in the Arctic, a new report
published today argues for urgent action. The Church of England's
largest shareholding, valued at £103 million, is in
Shell. The Methodist Church also has a substantial investment
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In
The End of Secularism, Baker addresses the notion
that a secular outlook results in "rational thinking
processes, empirical verification, and social harmony"
whereas religious belief is "tied to mysticism, violence,
ignorance, and coercion." As Baker observes, this set
of definitions is absurdly skewed in the secularists' favor.
In reality, secularism is on the very same logical footing
as religious thinking >>
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The catastrophe has driven a
wedge between Haiti's religions as Christian groups make inroads
among shaken voodoo followers -- some drawn by the steady
flow of aid coming from evangelical missions and others frightened
by a disaster they saw as a warning from God >>
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Muslim woman's veil case represents
clash of values in Spain >>
more The Washington Post |
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Methodism’s merger with
the Anglicans is inevitable and would have John Wesley’s
blessing. He sought reform, not schism >>
more Times Online |
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One of the great American pastimes
is playing “armchair quarterback” in the days
following the Super Bowl – assessing the big plays and
analyzing the prominent advertisements. A new nationwide Barna
Group study explored one such high-profile television spot:
the Super Bowl ad sponsored by Focus on the Family, featuring
college quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother Pam discussing
his survival from a difficult pregnancy >>
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2004, Smith and his team demonstrated that religion
matters to American teenagers and that it contributes mightily
to adolescent well-being. But they also discovered that what
most American teenagers call faith is what Smith dubbed moralistic
therapeutic deism, an interpersonal riff on American civil
religion that tends to masquerade as Christianity but bears
few similarities to the historic teachings of the Christian
church and is mostly used to lubricate relationships >>
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The most interesting point made
by Generation Jihad was Bradford youth worker Alyas Karmani's
revelation that "nine out of 10" radicalised youths
he came across had a distant relationship with their fathers
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Watch early-morning scenes of
singing and praying at the February 12 memorial service in
Port-au-Prince to mark the one-month anniversary of Haiti’s
devastating earthquake. According to an account of the service
in the Miami Herald, “the nation’s determination
to rise above the tragedy reverberated in the form of prayer
and music so intense the ground shook” >>
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Anglicanism's toppling triangle:
Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical and liberal – are modern
versions of the three varieties of Anglican churchmanship
that have existed side by side, at times comfortably and at
times painfully, ever since the shape of the Elizabethan Settlement
emerged in the sixteenth century. Now this Anglican “comprehensiveness”
seems to have reached its sternest test >>
more The Tablet |
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Many victims of atrocities in
different parts of the world have reported that those who
retained their faith were often better equipped to endure
their suffering than those who either had no faith or had
lost it. Though understandably many gave up on God, others
remained loyal and some even found God in the midst of their
ordeal >>
more The Star |
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The Presbyterian Church USA's
statement of faith says God through Jesus Christ delivers
followers "from death to life eternal." But one
in three members of the nation's largest Presbyterian denomination
seem to believe there's some wiggle room for non-Christians
to get into heaven, according to a recent poll >>
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Can peace in the Middle East
be achieved while both Israelis and Palestinians refuse to
give ground? Robert Fisk takes a road trip through a divided
land, from Ben-Gurion's Tel Aviv villa to Jerusalem, Bethlehem
and the besieged Gaza Strip >>
more The Independent |
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FUNERAL pyres could become commonplace in Britain after a
devout Hindu won a landmark legal ruling
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The BBC's head of religion has
accused the Church of England of "living in the past"
and said that the corporation should not give Christianity
preferential treatment >>
more Telegraph |
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In a speech aimed at calming
the warring factions within the Church of England and the
worldwide Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury
apologised to gay people for the way they had been vilified
and overlooked - but then said that unelected bishops in parliament
were right to oppose equality legislation requiring the church
not to discriminate against them >>
more Ekklesia |
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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 >>
more The Tablet |
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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 >>
more Guardian |
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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 >>
more Ekklesia |
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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 >>
more Times Online |
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From
The Rapture to Left Behind: The movie
and beyond - Evangelical Christian end times films from 1941
to the present >>
more Journal of Religion & Film |
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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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