Technology, ethnic diversity and outreach to the disenfranchised are key concerns of a new generation of leaders in the charismatic movement, according to the 30th anniversary issue of Charisma magazine (August), the leading publication of the American charismatic and Pentecostal movements. In profiling 30 up-and-coming charismatic leaders, the magazine finds that they tend to be “burned out […]
Tensions growing between religion and human rights
“Is there a schism between the human rights movement and religious communities?” That is the question posed by Jean-Paul Marthoz and Joseph Saunders, two staff members of Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org), in a recently released report entitled, Religion and the Human Rights Movement. They list many contentious issues, including reproductive rights, gay marriage, and blasphemy […]
Findings & Footnotes: July 2005
01: Circles of Support And Accountability is a fledgling Canadian Mennonite ministry that has already gained an international reputation for its work with sex offenders. Circles is part support network and part neighborhood watch, volunteers work both with released offenders, finding them housing and health care while meeting with police, media and angry community members. The […]
Findings & Footnotes: July 2005
01: The new book Church, Identity and Change (Eerdmans, $36), edited by David Roozen and James R. Nieman, focuses on the changing nature of American denominations, suggesting that most church bodies, whether mainline or evangelical, are facing serious challenges in ministering to their memberships. The book is unique in examining denominations both from a structural-sociological and a theological […]
China and Vatican on the road to diplomatic relations?
While few people expect prompt changes, the beginning of Benedict XVI’s pontificate seems to be marked by renewed attempts to solve the problems between China and the Vatican and to establish diplomatic relations. While there were diplomatic relations between 92 states and the Holy See in 1978, there has been a dramatic growth during John […]
Greek Orthodox crisis straining Middle Eastern peace?
Intensifying conflict in the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem could jeopardize a Middle East peace accord, as well as strengthen Arab nationalism in Orthodox churches in the region, reports The Tablet magazine (June 25). Much of the recent turmoil stems from the allegations that Patriarch Irineos had been selling off valuable parcels of land and property belonging […]
Current Research: July 2005
01: Evolutionary theory is met with disfavor by the registered voters in the state of Kansas, the epicenter of a national controversy on the teaching of science and religion in the public schools. The poll, conducted in the mid June by The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle, asked 625 registered voters what they think about the teachings […]
The ‘New Paradigm’ factor in missions
The model of congregations partnering with each other to plant churches around the world rather than working through mission agencies has become popular with such “new paradigm” churches as the Vineyard Fellowship. The charismatic Vineyard churches have pioneered in building decentralized networks of churches that avoid many denominational trappings, and increasingly these congregations are interested […]
Science, alternative spirituality embraced by Children’s books
A new genre of children’s books combines naturalistic science with alternative and Eastern philosophy and spirituality, reports the magazineWhat Is Enlightenment (June/August). Such new children’s titles as “Born With A Bang,” and “All I See Is Part of Me,” represent “what must be the latest defensive tactic of `spiritual but not religious’ parents everywhere– inculcating children […]
Evangelical-Catholic partnerships stress ‘Mere Christianity’
The burgeoning Catholic-evangelical alliance has attracted attention due to both churches’ common activism on “culture war” and pro-life issues, but the partnerships are taking shape on other levels as well, write Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom in Books & Culture (http://www.Christianity today.com/bc/2005/004/1.10.html). In reviewing evangelical-Catholic relations of the past few decades, the writers note that the evangelical […]
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