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Red Cross got half of Katrina donations: Reputation and Web use noted as factors in donor preference
A year ago, Americans started signing checks and clicking on Web links to raise an estimated $4.2 billion in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the most they have ever donated in response to a natural ...
Canadian church alters Israel investment plan: Decides to back "ethically responsible business" in Holy Land
The United Church of Canada has dropped a proposal to sell off stock in companies that contribute to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and has decided to back “ethically responsible...
Church drops woman Sunday school teacher: Cites biblical passage prohibiting women from teaching men
An American Baptist church in Watertown, New York, has dismissed an 81-year-old female adult Sunday school teacher, citing a biblical passage that prohibits women from teaching men....
Young apologizes for his ethnic slurs, quits Wal-Mart post: Remarks angered Arab, Jewish and Korean leaders
Longtime civil rights leader Andrew Young has angered Arab, Jewish and Korean leaders for saying that “Mom and Pop” store owners from these three communities had “ripped off” poor urban districts f...
Third group exits Christian Coalition: Declares national group has drifted from conservative principles
Alabama’s chapter of the Christian Coalition of America has dropped out of the national organization, declaring that it has drifted from its founding conservative principles....
Poll: GOP seen less friendly to religion: Only 44% of population hold favorable view of Christian conservatives
The number of Americans—particularly white evangelical Protestants —who view the Republican Party as friendly to religion has fallen from 55 percent last year to 47 percent, according to a poll rel...
Briefly noted
North America’s largest Islamic organization has elected Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian-born convert and Islamic scholar, as president, making her the first woman to lead any major Muslim organi...
Call me Nestor: A brave, garrulous character
Have your ever played a game in which participants identify themselves with an animal, biblical figure, athlete or Greek hero, and others try to guess the connection?...
Watching and listening: Stop talking and find some silence
Summer vacation for me and my family means the beach. Every year, with one or two exceptions, we find a way to travel to the ocean....
Welfare agenda: Programs support those who work
Last month marked the tenth anniversary of President Clinton’s welfare reform law, which imposed time limits for receiving cash assistance and required welfare recipients—including single mothers w...
Search and restore: Mark 9:38-50; James 5:13-20
Perhaps Jesus is too hopeful, too optimistic about these outsiders to suit our temperament.
The elusive nature of evil: Part three
In the spring of 2004, the serial killer known as BTK shocked experts around the world by reappearing after what were thought to be 20 years of dormancy....
Emerging model: A visit to Jacob's Well
If yesteryear’s evangelical church was a castle in the exurbs, Jacob's Well is a rehabilitated loft in the city. Evangelical churches attract young people with spaces stripped of Christian symbols and tradition; worshipers at JW like its dark wood, stained glass and high ceilings. Other churches would be thrilled to have 1,000 attenders; JW worries that it will lose the intimacy that nurtures community and friendship. And stewardship? Jacob's Well urges members to give time or money only out of gratitude.
Wisdom works: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9:30-37
The crucified and resurrected Christ becomes the standard against which to measure all accounts of wisdom.
Good old days?
Life expectancy in the developed world has nearly doubled in the past century....
Hidden history
One of the great dilemmas of contemporary historians is how to recover the history of people who left no written hi...
