Examining Faith

This video is not an at­tack up­on Catholics. It is an at­tack up­on the dev­il, who lures church­es away from scrip­tural truth. How­ev­er, God Him­self has told us that this in­sti­tu­tion has a mark we dare not re­ceive. Sin­cere Protes­tants, Catholics, Jews, and non-?Chris­tians will all be ea­ger to dis­cov­er what the mark of the beast is so they can avoid re­ceiv­ing it.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Six-hundred-and-fifty bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion assembled in Canterbury, England this July for the Lambeth Conference, a three-week-long meeting that’s held just once every decade. But more than 200 other bishops are boycotting the event. The 77-million-member Communion has been threatened with schism because of longstanding divisions over homosexuality and the interpretation of Scripture. Click [...]