Faith - links
WORLD Mag: Union ‘Like a war zone’
Feb 7, 2008 - topic(s): Faith, Ministry
Help Union University Recover
Feb 7, 2008 - topic(s): Faith, Ministry
RADIO: New Baptist Covenant?
Feb 6, 2008 - topic(s): Faith, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty
“Gospel of Judas” misinterpreted by Nat’l Geographic
GetReligion.org
Betrayed with a translation
Easter 2006 featured an unrelenting public relations offensive (emphasis on offensive) by the National Geographic Society and its National Geographic magazine that argued that Judas was unfairly maligned by Christians. The story was covered far and wide by all the major media outlets. A later update on the story hasn’t received as much coverage — not by a long shot — but I thought it worth highlighting. In a New York Times op-ed, April DeConick, a professor of Biblical studies at Rice University, argues that National Geographic got the story wrong:
Dec 10, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Apologetics, Family, Pop Culture
Richard Land: A Hope List for Romney’s Speech (Beliefnet)
Richard Land: A Hope List for Romney’s Speech
Nov 5, 2007
Former Massachusetts Governor and current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is going to give a speech on “Religion in America” tomorrow in Texas.
I have been encouraging Governor Romney to give such a speech for over a year now, since I first met with him at his home in Massachusetts. He had invited approximately a dozen evangelical leaders to meet with him to have a free-wheeling discussion about his presidential candidacy and to allow us to ask him questions—and to allow him to ask us questions as well.
Dec 5, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Citizenship, Church and State, National, Religious Liberty
TV: Land discusses Romney on Hannity & Colmes
Dr. Richard Land was featured on Fox News Channel’s program Hannity & Colmes on Monday Dec 3, 2007.
Dec 3, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Citizenship, Church and State, National, Religious Liberty
IVP: Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study…
Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse present social science research on homosexuals designed to answer the questions
* Can persons who receive religiously informed psychotherapy experience a change in their sexual orientation? * Is it harmful for anyone to receive such therapy?The results show that outcomes for this kind of therapy are similar to outcomes of therapy for other psychological problems. Such therapy is not harmful to individuals.
This research will be of interest to all those who want to know the latest research on sexual orientation change and the effects of religiously based therapy on those who utilize it.
Sep 17, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Ministry, Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
Graven images? Pornography in the Church - KC Star
http://www.kansascity.com/255/v-print/story/142253.html
Jun 18, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Bible, Ministry, Family, Sexual Purity, Pornography
WSJ - Christianity Without Salvation
Christianity Without Salvation
The legacy of the “Social Gospel”—100 years later.
BY JOSEPH LOCONTE
Friday, May 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
Within a few years of its publication in 1907, “Christianity and the Social Crisis” swept through America’s Protestant churches like a nor’easter, selling more than 50,000 copies to ministers and laypeople alike. In an age of social upheaval, Walter Rauschenbusch’s jeremiad was meant to rouse the church from its pietistic slumber. “If society continues to disintegrate and decay, the Church will be carried down with it,” he warned. “If the Church can rally such moral forces that injustice will be overcome . . . it will itself rise to higher liberty and life.”
May 11, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Apologetics, Bible, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, Social Issues, Issues
New Coalition of Christians Seeks Changes at Borders
A new coalition of more than 100 largely evangelical Christian leaders and organizations asked Congress on Monday to pass bills to strengthen border controls but also give illegal immigrants ways to gain legal residency. In late March, Dr. Richard Land, the conservative president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, stood with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, in supporting routes to legalization for illegal immigrants.
May 8, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National