Apologetics
U S Church Growth / Decline in 2009
February 18, 2010 Only five of top 25 US churches report membership growth US membership has increased in the Roman Catholic Church – the nation’s largest Christian body – but the No. 2 Southern Baptist Convention, along with most traditional Protestant denominations, reported continuing decline, according to new figures released by the National Council of […]
Climate Change (Thomas Friedman talks sense)
Global Weirding Is Here By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: February 17, 2010 Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man […]
The Largest religious gathering in the world
The largest religious gathering in the world involves 4 times the population of Australia – 77 MILLION according to estimates from this year’s gathering. *** Dates of Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, India, 2010 January 14 to April 28, 2010 Kumbha Mela The largest religious gathering in the world! According to astrologers, the ‘Kumbh Fair’ takes […]
British Church struggles with media message
The ‘Christendom era’ of Christianity’s cultural and societal dominance is coming to an end, and the challenge for Christians of all traditions is to find a new way of relating based on respect and persuasion rather than dominance. READ ON Feb 2010
Making it personal: the Kairos Palestine document
The international churches can choose to listen and act and walk with their Palestinian sisters and brothers, or they can choose to turn away and ignore them – these are both active choices, and prevaricating or sitting on the fence is not an option. READ ON A Palestinian Christian call to end the occupation. READ […]
Courage is Contagious – Evangelism in Community
The hidden benefits of doing evangelism in community. A Leadership interview with Steve Sjogren | posted 2/15/2010 Steve Sjogren has participated in launching five churches. Recently he has focused his energy on coaching others who are committed to outward-focused living. Sjogren is author of many books including the best-selling Conspiracy of Kindness. Most books emphasize […]
Sexual Abuse and Homophobia
Note from Rowland: This is presented in keeping with our policy of presenting many sides of complex issues for mature reflection… Please note that I do not necessarily endorse any particular views in the hundreds of articles on, for example abuse or homosexuality etc. on this website (see here for some of them – on […]
Atheism’s true believers gather
February 13, 2010 As religious extremism grows, its opponents are getting organised. Jacqueline Maley reports. Something you will never see: an atheist boarding a plane with a bomb strapped to him, waving a copy of On The Origin Of Species, before he blows himself up in a violent attempt to further his cause. So says […]
Malls Versus Mecca?
*Sightings* 2/11/10 — Jon Pahl President George W. Bush, to his credit, tried not to scapegoat Muslims for 9/11 and other acts of terrorism. “We are not at war with Islam,” Bush repeatedly intoned. Many Americans haven’t gotten the message. They still see the world in a populist version of Samuel Huntington’s “class of civilizations,” […]
Why God Hates Haiti
Lisa Miller The frustrating theology of suffering. Published Jan 15, 2010 From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010 Haiti is surely a Job among nations. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere: half its population lives on less than a dollar a day. With 98 percent of its forests felled and burned […]
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