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TRENTON, N.J. (BP)–eHarmony, Inc., the company behind the Internet matchmaking website founded by an evangelical psychologist and initially targeted to the Christian community, has decided to launch a new matchmaking website for homosexual singles instead of fighting a nearly four-year-old complaint in court.The news came as a shock to many pro-family leaders and attorneys, who expected the well-respected company — still popular among Christian singles — to take the matter to court. Those same leaders, though, say the news is another example of how laws protecting homosexuality are incompatible with religious freedom.Read more of this story.
A mini debate has exploded on several blogs over whether President-elect Barack Obama can call himself a Christian. If you’re just catching up, first read this 2004 interview with Obama, but here are the relevant sections. FALSANI: Who’s Jesus to you? (Obama laughs nervously) OBAMA: Right. Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of…
As priests, they’re Catholic clergymen serving parishes in Northern Ireland. As the Priests, they’re a singing trio that a major music company is promoting in dozens of countries. … The album comes with a novel back story (working priests who perform in their clerical collars) and a selection of sacred but accessible hits (Ave Maria, Pie Jesu) that Sony thinks can attract broader attention than even most pop projects. Read More >>
The Freedom from Religion Foundation is based in Madison, WI – right in our backyard. Their influence reaches across the whole country. Below are some links to what they’ve been up to lately.COLORADO IS BEING SUED FOR ‘DAY OF PRAYER’: Freedom from Religion Foundation organization filed lawsuitNovember 19, 2008 NOREEN: Imagine everybody friendly for a changeNovember 19, 2008 FFRF Sues Colorado Governor Over Prayer ProclamationsNovember 13, 2008 Bill Berkowitz: Medefind minds Bush’s faith-based storeNovember 19, 2008 Atheists Reach Out — Just Don’t Call It ProselytizingNovember 18, 2008 Freedom From Religion Upset Over City Council’s Change of PlanNovember 7, 2008
Two years ago, Facing the Giants, a low-budget sports movie made by volunteers at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, grossed $10 million on a budget of only $100,000. This year, Sherwood scored a bigger hit when Fireproof, a marriage-in-crisis movie made for $500,000, surpassed even the $25 million take of Big Idea’s 2002 film, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. (It has currently earned $28,327,659, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.) Read more >>
Missional Shift or Drift?a Leadership Survey Report by Helen Lee | ChristianityToday.comResearch shows that pastors’ views of the gospel and mission are changing. But should we celebrate or repent?In the summer of 2000, Mike Lueken had every reason to be proud as a pastor of Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. Every Sunday, thousands of people flocked to Oak Hill’s sixteen acre campus with its 35,000-square-foot facility, and the church was doing everything that a thriving, suburban megachurch with a $2 million budget was supposed to do. But then Lueken took a class at Fuller Seminary taught by Dallas Willard.…
COMMENTARYWhat struck me most as my Arab driver artfully maneuvered the roundabouts and winding streets of Amman, Jordan, was the sense of timelessness in a city made of stone. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Amman boasts a 5,000-seat amphitheater built in the 2nd century that is still in use today, and a Christian church built in 326 A.D. On the modern, western side of the city, the gleaming white stone repeats the ancient theme in stately homes, five-star hotels, and a massive, blue-domed mosque in which nearly 3,000 worshipers gather in prayer.But it was Arab…
God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long.Once a day. Beginning today. The call to action headlines his sermon at Grapevine-based Fellowship Church. He plans to deliver his challenge while sitting on a bed. Read more of this story.
Northwestern College held a day of prayer and fasting this week to seek reconciliation after a two-year debate over theological identity and management practices went public in October.Last month, a group of former trustees took their case online, asserting that the suburban St. Paul school is "badly divided" and drifting from its conservative evangelical identity under president Alan Cureton, who came during the school’s centennial in 2002.Read more of this story.
President-elect Barack Obama captured the 2008 religious vote on Tuesday, according to national exit polls. It was a reversal from four years ago, and partly a result of a drastic change in the way the Democratic Party targeted and organized religious voters.Obama made "inroads across the board" with religious voters, said Robert Jones, president of Public Religion Research. "There was a religious rebalancing in this election compared to 2004."Read more of this story. Obama in his own words – CBN News/Chicago Sun Times