PewResearch.org | All Feeds (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Roughly one-third of all Protestants are either unable or unwilling to describe their specific denominational affiliation.
Threads from Henry's Web (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Steve Martin lists ten books that have been written since 2003 (and pretty much none before that) on evolutionary creationism, starting with my favorite, Richard Colling’s Random Designer. The good news is that there are so many new books looking at evangelical Christianity and evolutionary theory from a positive perspective. The bad news is that [...]
American Spectator (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the wake of the California supreme court's ruling, liberal Protestantism is finding innovative ways to consecrate gay marriage.
Methodist Bishop (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Zechariah 9.9-12 This passage is part of the answer to those critics who claim that religion causes hostility and aggression. While it is true that religion is often used as an excuse for aggressive behaviour, the Prophet Zechariah makes clear that the true mark of religious leadership is a resolute determination to see peace prevail. Not only does the true leader choose to ride on a humble beast...
Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Tim Wildmon - Guest Columnist - 7/3/2008 7:00:00 AM ---Quote--- America is changing -- some would argue has changed -- in terms of religious composition. When you combine Catholicism with Protestantism, Christianity has always dominated the American religious landscape. But Americans today are...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map HN, Vietnam Religion and Belief T he major religious traditions in Vietnam are Buddhism (which fuses forms of Taoism and Confusianism), Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Caodaism and the Hoa Hao sect. Buddhism Buddhism was first introduced to Vietnam in the 2nd century, and reached its peak in the Ly dynasty (11th century). It was then regarded...
Methodist Bishop (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Jeremiah 28.5-9 It's easy to see how Jeremiah's name became a byword for pessimism. The Prophet Hananiah had prophesied that everything would turn out for the best; the exiles and the booty taken away to Babylon would be returned. It was the message that everyone wanted to hear, but Jeremiah would have none of it. In his opinion a true prophet is like Private Fraser from the old TV sitcom "Dad's Army"....
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Last weekend I took my oldest son and his friends to see the new Narnia film; “Prince Caspian”. They were entranced: this is a near-perfect movie for eight year old boys. And the story remains faithful to the spirit of the book, and even improves upon it. As a child I loved the Narnia books. Though [...]
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment - that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale - affects mortality rates, often in a positive manner. These results were published in the June issue of Social Forces, a leading journal in the field of sociology.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Artists have a major role to play in re-imaging the North and also in re-imaging the legacy of the past, writes
Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The ecumenism from the Vatican II era sought to accomodate Protestantism. It was fuelled by two potent ideas that drove the Vatican II reforms: resourcessement and aggiornomento. The first was a return to the sources of the early church. This was done through shared scholarship with both Catholic and Protestant scholars. The second word means 'open-ness' and was the Catholic desire to be not so entrenched...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
What Would Jesus Do (in College)? [When I was a student at Union Theological Seminary in NYC in the late 1950s, American Protestantism was at its height both with its orientation towards social justice and brilliant intellectual leadership of theologians such as the Niebuhrs and Paul Tillich. My particular year a half [...]
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The debates surrounding ethnicity and theatre are alive and kicking, as shown by a range of current London plays
Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
MOVING TOWARD HEALING AN OLD CHURCH SPLIT The top two Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders met Sunday and are continuing to talk about steps toward reunification. This 1,000-year-old division has been a terrible witness to the world about the ability...
Spo-Reflections (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
I have new spectacles. The first time I got glasses my mother took me to an optometrist she knew from church. In the spirit of Protestantism, he seemed to run his place on the dogma ‘Pay no heed to what ye shall wear’. He had rows of frames - bulbous liver coloured monstrosities of a [...]
