A fledgling reform movement emerging from the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church has gained national attention but observers are questioning if it can keep its centrist thrust and appeal to a wide range of Catholics. The six-month-old Voice of the Faithful movement was founded to galvanize Catholics on the sex abuse issue in the Boston […]
Intelligent design and creationism coexisting, quarreling
Thanks to the “intelligent design” movement, the distance between evangelical Christians holding to a belief in some form of evolution and those opposed to the theory has narrowed, though not without tension and divisions. The Christian Research Journal (Volume 24 Number 4) reports that the emergence of the intelligent design movement has helped create a “big tent” approach […]
Chinese house church supporters face heterodox movement
The non-official house church movement in China has drawn wide support among Christian groups in the West. But some house churches have developed in ways that are of concern to Western Christians, particularly as some of these groups are setting up operations in the U.S., according to several reports. The Ledger newspaper (Aug. 24) interviews Rev. Gik […]
Religion aids search for peace in Sudan
In a breakthrough to find a solution to the lasting war in Sudan between the government and Christian and animist secessionist forces in the South (2 million victims over the past 20 years, many of them dying from war-related famine), a framework for peace talks signed on July 20 agreed that the constitution would be […]
Turkey: Islamists soon back to government?
According to several observers of the Turkish political scene, the current crisis might lead to an unprecedented success of Islamist parties, due to the fragmentation of the secular political groups and to peculiarities of the Turkish electoral system. Long-time politician and ailing Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit clings to power and refuses to leave his […]
On/File: August 2002
01: Ergun and Emir Caner have emerged as the leading authorities of Islam in the conservative evangelical world. The Caner brothers’ views on Islam were instrumental in Southern Baptist Convention’s President Jerry Vines’ recent publicized statement that the Prophet Mohammed as a “demon-possessed pedophile.” The brothers were brought up Muslim until they converted to evangelical Christianity […]
Findings & Footnotes: August 2002
01: Although the secularization theory, holding that the world is becoming less religious, has come under fire in recent years, the new book God is Dead: Secularization in the West (Blackwell, $24.95) finds much of value in the concept, even in a modified form. Author Steve Bruce, a Scottish sociologist of religion and leading proponent of the theory, […]
Missionaries at cutting edge on e-books
E-books may not have caught on in most segments of publishing, but missionaries are rapidly trading in their paper books for the electronic versions. Religion Today.com (July 7) reports that with the “growing trend toward mobility in ministry,” both foreign and domestic missionaries are looking for alternatives to lugging hundreds of books to far-flung places. With […]
Outreach to tourists find place in British churches
If churches in England are losing committed members and worshippers, many congregations are drawing tourists and are even making a ministry of it. Quadrant (July), the newsletter of the British Christian Research Association, reports that 30 million visits are made annually to churches and cathedrals — making for more visitors than regular worshippers. “More and more […]
Evangelical increase in Mexico worries Catholics
Pope John Paul II’s recent visit to Mexico revealed the church’s resolute concern to preserve and win over the nation’s Indians’ devotion to Catholicism and the difficulty in achieving that goal. The pope ended his trip to the Americas on August 1 in Mexico, by addressing the Indians and appealing for greater respect toward them. […]
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