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Starting early last Sunday morning, the turmoil in New York’s financial markets triggered a spiritual response among Christian leaders reminiscent of the response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Cell phone text messages quickly spread calls to prayer.Read more of this story. More stories: Chaplains aid Wall Street workers Some in suits turn to religion
The Christian blogosphere has been set abuzz since CCM veteran Ray Boltz made public his struggle with and eventual acceptance of his homosexual desires.Read more of this story.
What if something as catastrophic as Ike affected your city? Many of the preparedness and recovery processes (short-term and long-term) can be in place well before a crisis hits your town. Simply put, this is a time for the Church to “be there” for others. All of the Christian relief agencies need your help; please donate or participate with one that also dispels spiritual "food." Read more of this report. WORLD VISION ASSISTING CHURCHES IN HARDEST HIT AREAS
Barack Obama’s campaign enlisted evangelical author Donald Miller on a tour through battleground states called "Barack Obama: Faith, Family and Values Tour," a campaign official told Christianity Today. Miller, Pepperdine University professor Doug Kmiec, and former Indiana Congressman pro-life Democrat Tim Roemer will speak to groups in community centers and gyms before taking questions. They plan to talk about where Obama and his running mate Joe Biden stand on issues like poverty and abortion. The tour will begin next week and will last for about a month in states like Colorado, Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida,…
A new survey of the USA’s religious beliefs and practices finds 55% of all adults — including one in five of those who say they have no religion — believe they have been protected from harm by a guardian angel.Read more of this story.
The Love Dare, the book that began as a plot device for the upcoming faith-based movie "Fireproof" could become the top-selling Christian book of 2008 based on sales figures prior to its release next week.Weeks before The Love Dare hits bookstores to coincide with the theatrical premiere of "Fireproof," over 300,000 copies of the pro-marriage book have already been sold and a third round of printing is already underway."This is the fastest-selling book we’ve ever handled," reported John Thompson, vice president of marketing for the book’s publisher, B&H Publishing Group, in an announcement. Read more of this story.
On his way to the 2008 Ryder Cup tournament in Louisville later this week, former Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman stopped in Madison for a short appearance before a group of about 100 local businessmen and golfers on the roof of the westside Princeton Club. It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon, the kind of day most golfers would prefer to be on the links, instead of sitting in folding chairs set up on the artificial turf of the rooftop soccer field.But listening to a some inside information from a golfing great after a nice lunch was also easier to fit…
COMMENTARYIt is crucial to take forceful leadership in praying for our business leaders, Christians in the financial industry and those whose investments and mortgages are tanking. We may find it hard to pray for these bankers because they are insanely wealthy, true. A few of them can be terribly arrogant; and some can have little heart for the less wealthy. Yet, Jesus prayed for the rotten because he loved the rotten. In this situation prayer could accompany a revival of the heart on Wall Street. Christian leaders need to lead during this financial crisis, which is threatening to become one…
When Marilyn Lorenz of Alma, Mich., talks about living out her Catholic faith in daily life, she starts by describing what’s inside her refrigerator.Read more of this story.
According to Julia Duin, a religion reporter for the Washington Times, more and more evangelicals are in fact fleeing their churches. Indeed, Ms. Duin regards church-quitting, at least among evangelicals, as nothing less than an epidemic. The problem, in her view, is not in the souls of the church quitters but in the character of the churches they choose to leave. "Something," she observes, "is not right with . . . evangelical church life."Read more of this book review.