Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
What should churches start doing, given Wuthnow's findings? My answer would be that they should redistribute energy. When we think of all the time and energy that churches invest in children, youth and their parents, and when we think of the high level of clout exercised by senior church members, it's clear that young adults …
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Abu Daoud is absolutely correct in his response concerning the impact of the falling US Dollar on American missions: The weakening dollar will have a bad effect on world missions, by the way. It will become more difficult for the US to send out as many missionaries as it does today. Working as I do …
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CNN's piece that Some Christian Pastors Embrace Scientology is one of the sorriest developments I've witnessed in a long time. Scientology and Christianity are diametrically opposed in their entire approach to life and eternity. The fact that Christian pastors are seeking help from Scientology is a sign of the desperation that too many Evangelicals (?) …
It looks like we're "off to the races" again with the impending release of the anti-religious children's film The Golden Compass. Based on the open atheist Philip Pullman's books, the release is beginning to generate the predictable firestorm. Unfortunately, as is the case with much anti-religious (usually anti-Christian, most of these people don't have the …
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