Amid persistent criticism that the U.S. marginalizes religion and religious people in its foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday (Aug. 7) tapped ethicist and campaign adviser Shaun Casey to lead the State Department’s new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.
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Internet pornography is probably the number one pastoral problem in the world today. The Christian church is currently mesmerized by developments relative to sexuality, not least because these development are couched in the rhetoric of civil rights and have serious legal implications. I wonder if a more serious and lethal internal issue for the church will actually turn out to be pornography.
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There is, at present, no method of slowing the aging process and extending average life expectancies to 120 years or more. But research aimed at unlocking the secrets of aging is under way at universities and corporate labs, and religious leaders, bioethicists and philosophers have begun to think about the morality of radical life extension, according to two accompanying reports released by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project in conjunction with the new survey.
Attorney General Marty Jackley has given South Dakota’s support to a legal defense of prayer at government meetings. Jackley said Friday he has joined attorneys general in more than two dozen other states who have signed onto a friend-of-the court brief in the case, which involves prayers that took place in a town board in Greece, N.Y.
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Sin, judgment, cross, even Christ have become problematic terms in much contemporary theological discourse, but nothing so irritates and confounds as the idea of divine wrath. Recently, the wrath of God became a point of controversy in the decision of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song to exclude from its new hymnal the much-loved song “In Christ Alone” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.
Have you ever prayed for A and gotten B? Maybe you have an A on your prayer list now, but B may come. It would be interesting to know what lessons you can learn from biblical verses that relate to the prayers of Job, Paul, the Philippians, and Jesus, all of whom asked for A and received B.
When God’s Answers Aren’t What We Wanted Read More »
Using the Fixed Point Foundation website, email, my Twitter, and my Facebook page, we contacted the leaders of these groups and asked if they and their fellow members would participate in our study. To our surprise, we received a flood of enquiries. Students ranging from Stanford University to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, from Northwestern to Portland State volunteered to talk to us. The rules were simple: Tell us your journey to unbelief.
Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity Read More »
“For the sake of your Jesus, won’t you help my son?” Those words from a Jewish woman’s lips provided the spark that began it all.
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The church was destroyed late Saturday night in a raging blaze that required assistance from fire departments from across Rogers County.
Claremore’s Christ Presbyterian Church burns to ground Read More »
Briarwood Presbyterian Church has voted to sever its 52-year association with the Boy Scouts of America and Troop 254 by the end of the year.
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