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Adventists top million; mainline slips: Presbyterians and Methodists post declines
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has more than 1 million members, according to a report presented during the denomination’s recent general conference in St. Louis....
British Muslim leaders denounce bombings, face backlash: "Not in the Name of Islam"
Despite Muslim denunciations of the July 7 bomb attacks in London, a number of British towns and cities have been targeted in an apparent backlash....
Slight decrease seen in Sunday school classes: Vacation Bible School also on decline
While Sunday school in Protestant churches remains popular, classes are less likely to be available to the youngest and oldest students, according to a recent analysis of Protestant pastors by the ...
Lutheran editor changes position: David L. Miller to Lutheran School of Theology
David L. Miller has resigned as editor of The Lutheran, the magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, to take an academic post....
Scientology: More than a celebrity Cruise? "A religion based on a rebuilt Gnostic myth"
A brash Hollywood actor with a boyish smile and slim tailored suits would not seem the first source that ordinary folks would seek out for psychiatric advice....
Christian aid groups disappointed with G8: Plans will not make poverty history
Britain’s two largest Christian aid organizations have expressed disappointment about the Africa package agreed to at a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) nations last month in Scotland, but have p...
Room for religion: What's allowed on government property?
Though the Supreme Court reached different results in two cases challenging government displays of the Ten Commandments, the court’s message was quite clear: in deciding such issues, context is eve...
Muslim moderate? Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan: Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan
Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan
Not by sausage alone: An open Bible in a farmer's rough hand
When I was in Croatia this past May I went on a hunt for kulen, a specialty sausage found in a region of Northeast Croatia called Slavonia. You can’t buy kulen in any store, of course. To get it you’ve got to have friends in very high places—in backwater villages of Slavonia where people raise their own pigs and prepare kulen according to recipes passed on in families for generations.
Lost rites: Godless funerals
Having read Selwa Roosevelt’s review in the Washington Post weekly edition (June 20-26), I intend to read Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the...
World without Roe? The politics of abortion: The politics of abortion
Gearing up for a battle over the next appointment to the Supreme Court, groups like NARAL Pro-Choice America and the National Organization for Women have been warning of the imminent collapse of ...
West coast witness: Matthew 16:13-20
As some friends and I ate a picnic lunch, we fell into a rambling conversation about politics, real estate values in an earthquake zone and the virtues of sauvignon blanc over chardonnay. Then I mentioned offhandedly that perhaps I viewed something or other the way I did because I was a Christian. This revelation did not strike me as a big deal. After all, they had been talking about Buddhist meditation, Sufi parables and personal spiritual rituals.
Dogging Jesus: Matthew 15:21-28
A kneeling woman does not have far to fall, and by all rights Jesus' insult should have floored her on the spot.
Beautiful words: The St. John's Bible project
Bibles are cheap. In their zeal to make scripture accessible to everyone, Protestants have manufactured Bibles in almost every language and made them available for startlingly small sums....
Change agents
Although Muslim reform may seem like an oxymoron to those who see Islam only through the lens of graphic violence, Muslim reformers have been in the sights of jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda for years. Their increasingly bold public stance has made them the natural enemy of those who seek to squeeze followers of Islam into a tight-fisted sectarianism at war with the entire infidel world.
Unfinished business
We live in a new racial time in the U.S., and we still lack adequate language to d...
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
For an author who celebrates a sabbath pace of life and ministry—he once wrote commending the “unbusy pa...
When Children Became People
Abortion. Pederasty. Homosexuality. Christian schools. The sacraments....
