By Roland S. Martin CNN Contributor (CNN) — I’ve heard thousands of sermons over the years, and a ton of them were about sex and money (or substitute: lust and greed). It’s as if the two issues are synonymous, and in a way, they are. I can’t think of any two other topics that dominate […]
The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw and Why I Left Waleed Aly, Reviewer August 21, 2007 Ed Husain’s account of his time with radical Islamists will give many opportunities for easy quotation, but it should be read far more critically than that. Literary success is guaranteed for whistle-blowing reformists […]
Extracts from an article by (Roman Catholic) Bernard D. Green Full text at: http://www.ewtn.com/library/NEWAGE/SYNCRET.TXT The syncretistic tendency can be defined as the attempt to appropriate ideas and practices from a variety of spiritual traditions without any attempt to discriminate their truth or value on the basis of [Christian] faith. One way in which the equality […]
Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief Thursday, Aug. 09, 2007 By NANCY GIBBS, MICHAEL DUFFY You have to climb a steep and narrow road, past the moonshiners’ shacks and dense rhododendrons and through the iron gates to get to the house on the mountaintop that Ruth Graham built after her husband Billy became too famous to […]
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 14 August 2007 SERBIA: ARBITRARY LEGAL STATUS DENIALS CONTINUE http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1007 Although Milan Radulovic has been replaced as Serbian Religion Minister by Radomir […]
(Can anyone see the flaw I think I see in these statistics?) John Watson August 17, 2007 MEN are more promiscuous than women. Almost every survey, in every country, finds men have more sexual partners than women. A recent US Federal Government study concluded the average heterosexual man had had seven female sex partners; his […]
August 19, 2007 A Guest Essay By J. Theodore Everingham I was born in May, a little more than 68 years ago, in a sleepy hamlet in southwest Michigan. The town itself had little to distinguish it then and perhaps less to distinguish it now. Still, I have a mental scrapbook of Norman Rockwell-style pictures […]
August 19, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 12: 49-56 “Appropriate” is a word that we hear a lot these days – sometimes used to describe an overture or incursion into personal space that is not appropriate, or, in a more positive way, to say that just now is the appropriate moment, occasion, day or […]
John Stott Address at Keswick Dr. John Stott – ‘The model – becoming more like Christ.’ Sermon delivered at the Keswick Convention July 17th 2007. I remember very vividly, some years ago, that the question which perplexed me as a younger Christian (and some of my friends as well) was this: what is God’s purpose […]
Listen Now – 11082007 (August 11, 2007) Nigel Calder suggests in some fields the establishment prevents people with differing views being heard. He cites examples, including sceptics to climate change. Transcript This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and […]