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Bush endorses teaching of 'intelligent design' President supports exposure to different ideas: President supports exposure to different ideas
President Bush has endorsed the teaching of “intelligent design” along with natural selection in a roundtable interview with reporters from Texas newspapers....
Christian Reformed executive forced to quit: Relationship "crossed professional boundaries"
A pastor who hosted the Back to God Hour radio program for the Christian Reformed Church was forced to resign only weeks before he would have started an indefinite term as top executive of t...
Antiochian Orthodox Christians leave NCC: Gay rights at issue
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America plans to leave the National Council of Churches, saying it is unhappy with policies and statements some member denominations have made...
Court nominee aided gay rights case: Roberts helped gay-rights group win in 1996
John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, donated legal work on behalf of gay-rights groups that helped them win a landmark 1996 case before that panel, according to the Los A...
World Baptists show grit in Britain: Alliance vigorous after SBC pullout
The World Baptist Alliance, holding its 100th anniversary congress in Great Britain amid public anxiety over suicide bombings, failed bombing attempts and manhunts, topped its own attendance predic...
Sudan church leaders stunned by death of John Garang: Key figure in peace deal dies in helicopter crash
Church and political leaders are urging Sudanese to stay on the peace path after the death in a helicopter crash of John Garang de Mabior, the guerrilla leader who steered the Sudan People’s Libera...
The joy of yes: Ricoeur: Philosopher of hope
Discussions about hermeneutics—the theories and practices of interpretation—are ubiquitous....
Think big: Our dreams are too small
"Make no little plans,” wrote 19th-century architect Daniel Burnham. “They have no magic to stir humanity’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.”...
Texts of terror: Warlike passages
CREDO: I am a Christian for the reasons stated in the Letter to the Ephesians, especially wherein “Christ is our peace.” I believe that the Bible as a whole (see Second Isaiah) and the New Testamen...
Religious progressives launch new network: Network of Spiritual Progressives
More than 1,200 spiritual progressives gathered in Berkeley, California, in July for a national conference to build an organization for the spiritual and religious left....
Breathing together: Community as a way of life
The absence of community surrounds us in a daily way—in our neighborhoods, our work lives and the anguish of our own souls. The scarcity of community wreaks havoc below the surface of outwardly busy lives. From the ethos of economic life to the chatter of talk radio, our society is busy promoting the appetites and fantasies of the individual more than it encourages investment in the larger aspirations of a community.
A careful read: Matthew 18:15-20
These six verses of Matthew do not mean that if two or three people agree on something, then they can ignore others and do whatever they want.
Lesson plans
Creators of a Bible curriculum used in 1,000 U.S. public schools claim that "The Bible in History and Literature" is a nonsectarian course, when the truth is that it presents a distinct theological perspective. Discussions of science are based on nonscientific literature; archaeological findings "prove" the Bible’s complete historical accuracy. One chapter describes the U.S. as a historically Christian nation and suggests that it needs to reclaim that heritage.
The Aquinas industry
A striking aspect of contemporary Protestant theology is the amount of interest shown in the great medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas, who was long regarded as the champion of rationalism and the “...
American heresies
It is not a new question, but it is one that presses in on us with ever greater urgency: what ...
The Renewal of Generosity
Both doctors and patients are demoralized these days, says Arthur Frank, though neither group is aware of what the ...
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics
This collection of 36 individual contributions treats numerous moral issues from the perspective of what might be termed liturgical et...