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The Christian church is engaging far less than 1 percent of the 70 million people who are active in the virtual world. This means the virtual world is by far the largest unreached people group on planet Earth, says one pastor.Douglas Estes, a pastor from San Jose, Calif., has no vested interest in virtual or internet churches – a relatively new phenomenon – but given the large "unreached" population on the internet, he says he has a desire to see healthy churches proliferate "regardless of context."
Concerned Americans are being encouraged to help raise awareness of the harms of pornography and highlight the need to enforce obscenity and related laws as they observe the 22nd annual White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week.From Sunday until Nov. 1, WRAP Week supporters will be displaying white ribbons, sending letters to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, contacting state and local officials, distributing flyers, and simply informing members of their church and the general public of the importance of obscenity laws at a time when such laws are not being enforced vigorously.
Man vs. Wild star Bear Grylls stopped by a Florida prison last week to tell inmates about the one survival tool he can’t live without: his faith. During a visit Thursday to the Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, the British adventurer, who has eaten animal eyeballs and camel intestines and confronted some of the world’s most poisonous snakes on his popular Discovery Channel show, said his relationship with Christ is what gives him strength.
GRANTHAM, Pa. — The Messiah College women’s soccer team marches across campus, two by two, in its home whites, singing and clapping rhythmically an hour before kickoff.Glory, glory to the LambYou will take us into the land.We will conquer in Your nameAnd proclaim that Jesus reigns.
TESTIMONYThe experience of the Evangelical Catholic (EC) method of ministry profoundly affected my own practice of ministry because I witnessed first hand how very effective the EC can be. While serving as a campus minister at St. Paul’s University Catholic Center in Madison, WI, we brought in the EC and saw our ministry flourish. Since then, I have imported their method to Harvard Catholic Student Center, where I now serve. Again a sense of renewal and rebirth of the faith and love for the Church has followed.
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Thanks to the Internet, some gullible American Christians can engage in one of their favorite hobbies — digging up the metaphorical corpse of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and rhetorically flogging it — more easily than ever before. Even though the famous atheist’s body was discovered in 1998 and positively identified in Texas — and even though she apparently has been dead since she disappeared in 1995 — patently false rumors about her alleged anti-Christian campaigns continue to spread. Credulous Christians who once forwarded these kinds of rumors in mimeographed chain letters or spread them on talk radio now…
NEW YORK — Bruce Feiler just says it flat-out: "Moses is bigger than Jesus."In U.S. political and cultural history, he says, the Bible’s reluctant prophet, who leads his people out of Egyptian slavery to the promised land, outranks even Jesus.
Religious observance is increasing worldwide and irreligious Europe, not America, is the exception.
Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners and a leading evangelical voice on the religious left, told an overflow crowd on the University of Wisconsin campus that the best kind of inter-religious dialogue occurs in the midst of action that addresses problem issues. "Act together and talk while you’re acting," he said.
NEWS RELEASEIn the year since the national economy faltered, 22,095 Dane County households struggling with poverty received food through the customer-choice pantry the Society of St. Vincent de Paul operates in Madison. That number – for the charity’s fiscal year that ended in September – is a 9.2 percent increase over the prior year’s figure and replaces it as an annual record for service provided by Dane County’s largest and busiest food pantry. Also an annual record is the $1.28 million in food the pantry distributed in the last year.