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• Gallup: 78 Percent of Americans Identify as Christians, Continuing Decline

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Religion , Poll Watch According to a new Gallup poll , 78 percent of Americans identify with some form of Christian faith, continuing a significant decline in religious identification over the past 50 years. In 1948, 91 percent of Americans described themselves as Christians, while only 2 percent said ...
  6 days ago

• Christians in Vietnam Hold Another Historic Celebration

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Largest-ever event in northern part of country encourages house churches.HANOI, December 21 (CDN) — For the second time in 10 days, Protestant history was made in Vietnam yesterday when 12,000 people gathered for a Christmas rally here.The event, which took place in the large square in front of the entrance to My ...
  1 week ago

• What the Catholic church really teaches....

  
  The Lina Lamont Fan Club — Authority: 122
  Since I am new to being a Catholic, Im often surprised at the amount of hostility that Catholicism brings forth. And often this is based on misunderstandings. Ive received a misspelled text which gave a number of complaints about the Church. For example, that it is wrong to call anyone father so one shouldnt call a ...
  1 week ago

• The healthcare reform bill’s true name: The American Womens’ Catholic Conversion Bill

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 609
  It’s worse than we thought.  Stateofdisbelief unpacks it for us on the Conscience Rule. In the Chairman’s recent amendment (read: bribe for Nelson’s vote) here is what it says: (A) IN GENERAL.–Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on Federal laws regarding– ‘(i) conscience ...
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• West on the Harms of Homeschooling

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 410
  This post reviews Robin L. West, “The Harms of Homeschooling” in Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 29, no. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2009): 7-11 [ Available here ] West , a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, here provides perhaps the most blistering attack on homeschooling to be published in ...
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• European Human Rights Court Rules in Favor of Turkish Church

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Christians hope decision will lead to greater religious freedom.ISTANBUL, December 18 (CDN) — In a decision many hope will lead to greater religious freedom in Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that a Turkish court ruling barring a church from starting a foundation violated the congregation’s ...
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• No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain.

  
  SANCTE PATER — Authority: 442
  Houston, Texas (CNN) -- Joel Osteen strides into the former Compaq Center. Some 20,000 people are standing and singing. Purple lights softly pulse across the ceiling, and mist floats around two giant screens flashing words to the songs. Its not a pulpit but a podium. Its not an altar but a stage. There is no cross. ...
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• Pew Research Center: Many Americans mix multiple faiths

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 139
  The religious beliefs and practices of Americans do not fit neatly into conventional categories. A new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, mixing elements of diverse traditions, reports Pew Research ...
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• THE MODERN HUMANISTIC ERA

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 149
  CHAPTER 44 : THE MODERN HUMANISTIC ERA The general progress in Reformation that marked the era of Protestant Reformation went in reverse during the modern era of world history. As we shall see, the new era became characterized by increasing humanism and decreasing faith in the word of God. This in turn gave way ...
  2 weeks ago

• Most U.S. Protestant pastors see Islam as dangerous – survey

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 570
  American Muslims at the Atlanta Masjid of al-Islam mosque, 9 Feb 2007/Tami Chappell Here’s an interesting survey that was released on Monday by LifeWay Research , which is the number crunching arm of the South Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical group. It says that two-thirds of Protestant ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 512
  “Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over ” … “I felt at that ...
  3 weeks ago

• China Christians sent to labour camps: rights group

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 149
  China Christians sent to labour camps: rights group Foreign 2009-12-02 18:26 BEIJING, Dec 2 (AFP) - Police in northern China have sentenced five Christian church leaders to two years of "education through labour" after they protested against a police raid on their church, a rights group said Wednesday. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Advent, Apocalypse Now?

  
  Progressive Revival — Authority: 111
  "There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations caused by the roaring of the sea and the waves," proclaims Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. He continued: People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be ...
  4 weeks ago

• China jails five underground church leaders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Shanghai, Nov.27 (ANI): A Chinese court has sentenced five leaders of an underground Protestant church to jail terms of up to seven years. The sentences are some of the harshest in recent years against the members of so-called “house churches” - underground congregations that refuse to be sanctioned by the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Exploring Religion, Shaped by the Enlightenment

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 121
  By PETER S. STEINFELS Why can’t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? What’s that, you say? They were friends? Why didn’t anyone tell us? Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin , he argues in a new study that religion and the Enlightenment were ...
  5 weeks ago

• White Culture: Is Glenn Beck Serious about Discussing What He Means By Using the Phrase?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 140
  Of course not. Glenn Beck is not seriously trying to have a dialogue about the subject. He’s not having an exchange. He’s communicating to a base audience in racial code. He won’t even attempt a dialogue on “white culture” with, say, Katie Couric, because that’s not what his use of the phrase is about. A ...
  5 weeks ago

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