Diarmaid MacCulloch has written a new book called a history of Christianity: the first thousand years. Archbishop Rowan Williams writes in the Guardian an interesting review. It looks a fascinating read and one day might get round to reading it! It looks far more than just a textbook.
As I listen to the talking heads in the media who are practically beside themselves trying to come up with a politically correct explanation for the Fort Hood shooting it becomes more and more painfully clear that they really don't get it! In the Middle East Quarterly , Raymound Ibrahim asks, " Are Judaism and Christianity as violent as Islam? " Although this article was written before the...
Christians claim that skeptics have come and gone but their faith has withstood all attacks so far and survived. Balderdash! Here's the truth. The Christianity that survived is a reinvented one in each generation as the result of skeptical attacks, sometimes coming from within. Just think of the modernist rift due to the enlightenment which divided all denominations to some degree. This division can...
The following was written by a friend, Karen Ocamb. She’s a brilliant journalist and posted this on her blog, LGBT POV, yesterday. It is presented here with her permission. There’s an old saying: “The Devil screams the loudest just before leaving the room.” After last night’s devastating loss of marriage equality in Maine 52.84% – 47.16% – [...]
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It will not do to stand Wellhausen on his head and be done with it. Rather than reverse Wellhausen’s value judgments such that it is now the religion of ancient Israel that is the whipping boy of our enlightened scorn,...
Since the Vatican announced that an Apostolic Constitution would be forthcoming from Pope Benedict XVI that would allow Anglicans to enter corporately into full communion with the Catholic Church, while maintaining some of their legitimate liturgical rites and traditions, there have been many reactions, some positive and others decidedly less so. In particular, a number of commentators in the secular...
Former priest announces move to Catholic church A bestselling author and Anglican priest has launched an outspoken attack on the Church of England and revealed that he is converting to Catholicism. GP Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer became an international bestseller and is being turned into a film, accused the church of sinking "into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered...
"Not forgetting that we must be broad church and all accommodating, not to mention climate change etc and certainly never to mention Christianity or Dogma !"
When Marx described religion as the opium of the people, he was expressing a 19th-century view of the effects of Christianity on the working class. Like many secularists, Marx believed that turning to religion for consolation was both an expression of real suffering and a self-defeating protest against it: hence his analogy with a sedative. In the 21st century, religion is having anything but a sedative...
I've never been a big John Spong fan but with some questions about exactly what he means and the place of Christ... I kind of liked this... I know no faith except Christianity. I walk the Christ-path into the mystery...
Dr. Martin Kugler of the Vienna-based human rights network Christianophobia in Europe, has written these 12 theses of religious freedom: 1. The right to religious freedom can only mean its exercise -- not the freedom from confrontation. 2. The meaning of "freedom of religion" has nothing to do with creating a society that is "free from religion"! 3. Forcibly removing the symbol...
Returning to power in 1980, Indira Gandhi announced a new National Health Policy. It emphasized the need for “securing a small family through voluntary efforts to move towards the goal of population stabilization”. The wishes of the people had been taken into account. India was a vibrant democracy. Qualitative help with essays editing: customized Essay Editing service for students Government could...
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Summary: Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the phiz or phizog of Evil. In the years ensuing World War II, Merrin is relentlessly tormented by way of memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated contra the honest community of his fol during the War. In the wake of every bit of the alarm he has seen, both his credence in his boy male adult and his credence in the Almighty keep...