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Evangelical Christians are adopting — and adapting — the rituals of Advent, the four weeks leading up to Christmas that are traditionally celebrated by Catholics, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox and other liturgical churches.Read more of this story.
MUSKEGON, Mich. — A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on a small plane in Peru that killed an American missionary and her infant child.Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, said the attack that killed Veronica and Charity Bowers can be traced to a reckless CIA-sponsored drug interception program that had already downed numerous other planes.Read more of this story.
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) — Wycliffe Bible Translators, the world’s largest Bible translation organization, is to launch a major 17-year project to translate the Bible into the last remaining languages.Read more of this story.
People call him "Shoe Bob," but his real name is Bob Fisher. He owns a small shoe repair shop tucked in a corner of a little strip mall in Wayzata, Minnesota. Average height, average build. Shoe Bob looks like your average, hard-working, churchgoing guy.But he is not an average guy.Shoe Bob is a radical servant who has found a way to help the homeless. He helps the homeless by rallying his whole community, and he does it in his sleep.Read more of this story.
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.…