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Episcopal alternative formed; Africans urge Lambeth be postponed: Anglican Covenant proposed
A high-level Anglican committee based in Great Britain has reported that the Episcopal Church’s bishops who met last month in New Orleans “clarified all outstanding questions” regarding its controv...
Polls find shifts by young evangelicals: Political migration
Are evangelical young adults shifting away from the Republican Party and becoming more estranged from contemporaries because of how closely evangelical Christians are linked to “antihomosexual” vie...
Aid pledge to Darfur 'not enough,' says African church leader: A positive step, but insufficient
A Christian leader in the Horn of Africa has welcomed a Sudanese government pledge of $300 million in aid for Sudan’s Darfur region but said that it is insufficient and should not distract attentio...
Iraqi Christians live in fear or flee: Unacceptable options
Nabil Comanny and his family endured the dead bodies left to decompose along the road in their southern Dora neighborhood in Baghdad. They coexisted with criminal gangs that roamed the area....
U. S. Muslims view holiday resolution as sign of acceptance: Congress commemorates Ramadan
U.S. Muslims are welcoming a congressional resolution commemorating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as an important, if symbolic, sign that they are gaining acceptance in America....
Briefly noted
Oral Roberts University, which made headlines 20 years ago when its namesake founder said God would “call him home” unless he raised $8 million, finds itself embroiled in controversy again....
Low-carbon life: Helping churches go green
Chris Goodall’s book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life (Earthscan, 2007) was described by New Scientist magazine as “the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprin...
Staying power: Our true vocation
The reason I am still in the ministry is because of the night I decided to leave the ministry. It was my day off. The phone rang, and it was the chaplain at a nearby hospital....
Dumbfounded: A more excellent way
In my mind, reductionism translates as “nothing buttery.” Belief in God, for example, is seen as “nothing but” the result of certain neuron firings in the brain....
Now and then: Isaiah 65:17-25; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19
In the beyond, in the dream, on the mountaintop, in the joy made flesh—not in the flesh still longing—is where I want to dwell....
After the storm: Job 19:23; Luke 20:27-38
When I’m listening to Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter sing “Storms Never Last,” I wonder if I’m also hearing what Job, and even Jesus in Luke 20, would want to sing....
Democrats for Jesus: Faith-friendly candidates
In Mississippi these days, you may hear a candidate insist that “our children should be able to learn and pray in the best schools in the land." You might be surprised to hear the candidate refer to “the day I accepted Christ.” But you might be more surprised—especially if you hail from another part of the country—to learn that the candidate is a Democrat, John Arthur Eaves. At times Eaves seems to be trying to unseat GOP governor Haley Barbour by out-Jesusing him.
Staying power: Our true vocation
The reason I am still in the ministry is because of the night I decided to leave the ministry. It was my day off. The phone rang, and it was the chaplain at a nearby hospital....
A matter of mutation
Michael Behe, a biochemistry professor at Leigh University and one of the chief advocates for intelligent design (ID...
God's Harvard
In my personal evangelical heyday back in the Reagan 1980s, one measure of zeal for my college crowd was our willi...
