Fundamentalism is a hot topic. Many folks have been astonished at the level of evil perpetrated by Islamic fundamentalists, the most notable example being the events of 9/11. Those events are indelibly etched on the American psyche. Recently, news stories of the fall of Ted Haggard, a prominent evangelical, have attracted attention. After years of railing against homosexuality and assorted other sins, Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was “caught” committing the very “sins” he so railed against. More recently, Americans have been shocked at revelations of events happening at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints compound in Texas
A San Jose City College professor was recently fired for expressing an alternative view on the causes of homosexuality and lesbianism. If all it takes to end a teaching career is one brief, evidence-based foray outside the narrow boundaries of politically correctness, freedom will vanish from college campuses.
The Vatican reported that the number of Catholics in religious orders around the world continued to decline. In the latest figures for 2006, there were just over 945,000 monks and nuns, down about 7,000 from the year before. The overwhelming majority, 753,000, about 80 percent, were women. Around the U.S. the number of nuns has [...]
Presidential hopefuls Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose an unprecedented venue and format for their first joint appearance in the campaign. For the first time in American history, the presumptive nominees had a formal, televised conversation with one of the nation’s leading pastors – Dr. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church – at [...]
Popular opinion in these early years of the twenty-first century has assailed our minds with “politically correct” sentiment. In keeping with this viewpoint a garbage man ought to be dubbed a “sanitation engineer” and a short person is not short he is “vertically challenged.” Even the term thief might offend so we should adopt the [...]
It’s becoming increasingly popular for Christians who share their faith with others to attempt to make the gospel more appealing by “repackaging” it with something else. That something else may range from the display of magic tricks to tributes to the late Elvis Presley. The mainstream message of America’s churches advertised on billboards emphasize to [...]
The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church says the worldwide Anglican Communion is holding together despite deep divisions over homosexuality interpretation of Scripture. Click to watch What Are The Anglican Church’s Prospects For Global Unity? Read the full transcript and more at Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Related Reading: Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years The National [...]
“And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he [...]
