Examining Faith
A Look At Christianity In The 21st Century
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Examining Faith

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

“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 [...]

The news is not good. A Governor of a large state throws everything away for a few hours of hidden pleasure with an expensive prostitute. Common sense would suggest such behavior is insane, but is it? Or a presidential candidate spins a tall tale about her brush with sniper fire on an official trip to [...]

Barack Obama is gaining some support with evangelicals even though he is one of the strongest pro-choice Senators in Congress. Is abortion no longer important to people of faith as some say? While a Catholic pro-life group warns Catholics and Evangelicals that a vote for Barack Obama is “a vote for the radical agenda of [...]

The Nicene Creed was originally written at the first council of Nicaea in 325 AD as a guide to help early Christians understand their faith and as a response to the rising belief in Arianism. Arius was a presbyter in Alexandria in the early fourth century. Arianism taught that the father created the son

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has said several times that he would not and could not bring himself to vote for John McCain, as a matter of conscience. Now he’s indicating that he might do that because he thinks Barack Obama is so bad and would be so bad for America. He says [...]