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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
International (MNN) ― Christians are facing increasing amounts of persecution in India. Hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced in the most recent violence. In Iraq, Christians have left the country because of the violence they’re facing. The list goes on and on. Sadly, however, many Christians in the west aren’t concerned about it, says Glenn Penner of Voice of the Martyrs, Canada. Read more of this story.
When I was in my late 30s and early 40s, I thought I needed to hurry up and find somebody to marry so I could have kids before I got too old to raise them. This led me into several relationships that weren’t healthy. Now that I’m in my mid-40s, I’m not as interested in having children as in having a godly relationship with a woman.Read more of this story.
On the road toward fulfilling the Bono-endorsed slogan, "Make Poverty History," the world has hit an unexpected speed bump: prosperity. India’s expanding auto industry puts 4,300 new cars a day on already-crowded streets. Oil-wealthy Russia has doubled its meat consumption since 2000. Brazil’s sizzling economy is growing its use of steel at a faster rate (over 20 percent this year alone) than nearly any other nation. China has increased its consumption of eggs by a factor of ten in recent years.Read more of this story.
Chonda Pierce earns her living making others laugh.A Christian comedian who’s quick with a comeback and famous for self-deprecating jokes, Pierce says humor comes so naturally to her that she didn’t really recognize depression when it first hit her. It took almost 18 months for her to realize that her mental exhaustion, fatigue and sadness were red flags that she could not afford to ignore.Read more of this story.
COMMENTARY Over the last few days, I have been besieged with calls from Christian friends in deep despair over the election. I understand the feeling. The President-elect, along with his newly strengthened allies in Congress, opposes almost every pro-life and pro-family position conservative Evangelicals and conservative Catholics have fought for so hard.Read more of this commentary. Conservative Christians Reject Racism Label in Obama Vote – Associated Press
Nearly 200 people packed the sidewalk and street in front of Madison’s East Side Planned Parenthood Sunday night for a candlelight prayer service that wrapped up this fall’s 40 Days for Life prayer vigil.
Evangelist Billy Graham, who turns 90 today, is frail from multiple falls and ailments, far from the strapping revivalist who roamed the globe for six decades. Yet before Graham retired in 2005 to his mountainside log cabin in Montreat, N.C., he preached to 215 million people — and changed the course of American Protestantism. Read more of this story.
WASHINGTON (BP)–Democrat Barack Obama made history Nov. 4 by becoming the first African American elected to the U.S. presidency, but the victory left many evangelical Christians and other social conservatives concerned his administration will undermine pro-life and pro-family policies.Read more of this story.Associated Press AnalysisA Mountain-top Moment for the Black Church – Religion News ServiceMORE ELECTION COVERAGE FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAYWill Evangelicals Learn to Work with an Obama Administration?Jim Wallis on Holding Obama AccountableHow Evangelicals VotedMORE ELECTION COVERAGE FROM BAPTIST PRESS’Historic’ campaign scored Prop 8’s win in CalifObama administration could radically change U.S. landscape on social issues Calif. passes Prop 8, a…