01: Richard Kew’s Brave New Church (Morehouse Publishing, $15.95) has a distinctly Anglican tone in its forecasting of trends that will impact churches in the near future. But Kew, an Episcopal priest, also covers wide terrain in his trend-watching (he has written two previous books on trends in the churches in the late 1980s and 90s that […]
Central Asia increasingly moving toward religious repression
Due to fears of Islamic extremism encroaching on its borders, the central Asian nations of Kazakhistan and Kyrgystan are tightening the reigns on religious freedom, reports Frontier (No. 2, 2001), a newsletter of the religious freedom organization Keston Institute. Kazakhistan and Kyrgystan have been the most tolerant of religious pluralism in the region, but recent legislation passed […]
Cooperation, evangelism grows from north to South Korea
North Korea is gradually becoming more accessible to foreign influence and Christian groups in South Korea are using the opportunity to smuggle in Bibles and aid a network of underground Christians in the north. The Washington Post (April 10) reports that the food shortage in North Korea is leading Christian groups in the south to send in […]
Western media bias strong against Hinduism?
Media coverage of Hinduism in India still tends to reflect a Western perspective that views the religion as pagan, primitive and irrelevant to the modern world, according to Hinduism Today magazine (May/June). The magazine monitored coverage of the recent Maha Kumbha Mela, an annual worldwide pilgrimage to such Hindu holy sites as the Ganga and Yamuna rivers […]
Church of England bishops orthodox on resurrection
Belief in Christ’s resurrection remains strong among the Church of England’s bishops, according to an unscientific poll conducted by The Spectator, (April 14), a British weekly. The magazine polled every diocese in the Church of England the week before Easter, asking the local bishop, or bishops’ office, if he or she believed in the physical resurrection […]
New generation of Chile’s priests taking notes from evangelicals
The phenomenon of priests taking up popular styles of music and ministry to fight the influence of evangelicals is becoming more common in Chile, as in the rest of Latin America. Catholics adapting the style of evangelicals and Pentecostals as a strategy to counter evangelical growth in Latin America may have started in Brazil, as priests […]
Current Research: May 2001
01: While there has been wide public support for government funded faith-based social services, approval for such programs drops significantly when the groups administering such services are out of the Jewish-Christian orbit, according to a recent poll. The poll of 2,041, the most extensive yet to measure support for President Bush’s initiative to support faith groups […]
Evangelical culture and legal clash in Canada
Evangelicals in Canada are increasingly coming into conflict with laws and charging that they face discrimination for their views, reports Christianity Today (April 2). The growth of anti-evangelical attitudes and a growing cultural and religious divide was revealed in the wake of the defeat of Stockwell Day for Prime Minister. Day’s candidacy “became a lightening rod for criticism […]
Easter facing Christmas-style commercialization?
Easter is being increasingly commercialized, with merchandisers hoping to make the holiday second only to Christmas for gift- and toy-buying, according to the New York Times (April 13). While the “commercialization of Easter has a long way to go before it comes close to matching the Christmas frenzy, toymakers are finding the spring holiday as a desirable time […]
Mikvah bath revived and reworked for non-orthodox Jews
The Mikvah bath, once the sole preserve of Orthodox Jews, is being adopted and changed by Conservative and Reform synagogues, reports Moment magazine (April). The bath’s primary function is to ritually purify converts to Judaism, and is also used by Orthodox Jewish women at the end of menstruation as taught by Jewish family purity laws. Reform and […]
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