Archive for January, 2012
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) In 2007 I ran across an interview on Al-Jazeerah with Sheikh Ahmad Al Katani lamenting the fact that over 6 million Muslims were being converted to Christianity in Africa every year. Since that time, Muslim leaders have substantially failed in the arena of ideas and persuasion and have increasingly turned to [...]
Filed under: -Persecution, Africa, Attacks on Christianity, Christianity, Coptic Church, Culture & Religion, Egypt, Islamist Radicals
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
(Bloomberg via Wikipedia) 32 out of 51 members of the New York City council protested, along with over 300 people including pastors from all over the city, the upcoming expulsion of over 60 churches from meeting in NYC public schools. Since the U.S. Supreme court refused to hear the case in December, notices of [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -Schools, Culture & Religion, Education, SCOTUS
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
( Getty Images via @daylife) Texas Gov. Rick Perry took time out from his busy presidential campaign in South Carolina to attend a prayer event. While there, without any fanfare or introduction he took the stage at the large prayer gathering called "The Response" in Greenville, S.C. and prayed for President Obama and his [...]
Filed under: -Prayer, Barack Obama, Christian living
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) Today (Tuesday 1/17) the US Supreme Court declined to hear a case coming from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Appeals Court had ruled in a 2-1 panel decision last October in Joyner v. Forsyth County (North Carolina) that public legislative meetings could not begin with prayers in the “name [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Prayer, Court Decisions, SCOTUS, USA
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) Some startling claims have come out on the Internet in response to a new survey of church going Americans by the Barna Group. The conclusions drawn by many writers is that the new study proves that going to church doesn’t do anything positive for people. However, when you go directly to [...]
Filed under: American Church, Christian living, Culture & Religion, Media Bias, USA
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) There are many differences that separate the two largest world religions- Islam and Christianity. Some of the greatest disparity revolves around their very different understandings about the character of God (or Allah in the case of Islam) and how one can have a relationship with God the Father and receive eternal [...]
Filed under: -Islam and Christianity, Apologetics
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Is God Helping Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos? A recent poll shows that Americans are evenly divided over this question with 43% believing he is receiving Divine assistance while 42% think that God has nothing to do with it. If you brake down the poll in different age groups, 52% of those in [...]
Filed under: -God, Christian living, Christian Witness, Culture & Religion, USA, World Views
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