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Pentecostal or charismatic Christianity is viewed by some Americans as an emotional, theologically suspect form of the Christian faith. It is widely thought to be a very vocal and visible, but numerically small slice of the grand religious pie in the United States. Two new surveys from The Barna Group, however, indicate that things are …
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Hillary says that Vladimir Putin "doesn't have a soul:" Speaking in Hampton this evening, Hillary Rodham Clinton said the president of Russia "doesn't have a soul." She was riffing on the danger of inexperience, and reliance on personal relationships, in foreign affairs, indirectly comparing Obama to George W. Bush, who notoriously looked into Vladimir Putin's …
“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 1:11. From …
In 1997 Episcopal Rev. Marty Davis, a leader in the TEC GLBT group Integrity, was murdered. Recently a tape surfaced made by Judge John Hagler (who had known Rev. Davis at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland, TN) has led to the re-examination of the case: The former secretary to Judge John Hagler testified Thursday …
Some times you hear the idea that we as Christians, when out and about in the world, can draw the people around us to Christ by our conversation with each other. There's some Biblical justification for this: Let your conversation always be kindly, and seasoned, as it were, with salt; that you may know in …
It's indicative of the sad state of what is conventionally termed Christianity (but I have my doubts) when an avowed atheist calls our bluff, as Brendan O'Neill does in his article Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth: In his Christmas sermon, delivered at Canterbury Cathedral, Dr Williams finally completed his journey from …
Mike Huckabee's version of "New Testament compassionate conservatism" may bother many on the right, but the positive feedback--in the form of events like the Iowa caucuses--is a sign of the Republicans' core problem in moving forward this election year. That problem, simply put, is that Americans in general are less and less willing to be …
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Hillary Clinton's ignominious defeat in Iowa (and for that matter Mike Huckabee's win) are signs that we still have a competitive political system. Both parties have attempted "coronations" in this, the most open election year since World War II. But neither has worked. Clinton's is especially galling since she, more than any other Democrat candidate, …
It seems that the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, Bishop Suheil Dawani, is upset that his Global South counterparts are having a conference (GAFCON) in his town without having consulted with him. From a purely tactical standpoint, I can't blame the Africans for doing it this way. They're in an interesting position; their "primus inter pares" …
George Hood's outline of the secular parallel to the conflict in the Episcopal Church--and specifically the secession of the Diocese of San Joaquin--is a theme that bears more coverage than it gets in the Anglican/Episcopal world. The whole row is a microcosm of the culture wars that now have a global dimension. That is due …
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