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 […]
Internet creating worldwide prayer chains
Prayer chains that were once confined to a congregation or a close circle of friends are now being circulated throughout the world over the Internet, causing new concerns about privacy in the process. The Dallas Morning News (April 30) reports that prayer requests that are posted on religious web sites are easily circulated to other web sites […]
Tim LaHaye — evangelical trend-setter?
Who has been the most influential evangelical in the U.S during the last 25 years? The answer to that question tends to bring up the usual candidates: Billy Graham, Bill Bright of Campus Crusade, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, or perhaps Pat Robertson. The Evangelical Studies Bulletin, (Winter) the newsletter of the Institute for […]
Reimagining more interfaith than Christian?
The feminist Re-Imagining movement is experiencing tensions over whether to confine its work within Christian boundaries as well as how to reach out beyond its middle-class, white constituency, reports Faith & Freedom (Winter), the newsletter of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy. The Re-Imagining movement gained headlines and notoriety in mainline denominations eight years ago for […]
How religious colleges keep the faith
Is the loss of faith inevitable for religious colleges and universities? In the past few years there have been several studies and books detailing how many of the leading U.S. colleges — from the Ivy League to Catholic schools — have lost their religious identities, making such a transition seem almost like a natural process. […]
On/File: April 2001
01: The Universal Life Church gained notoriety in the 1970s for its mail-order ordinations it provided to anyone of any faith. The group is still around and is prospering due to the Internet. By going to the church’s web site and pressing the “enter” key, as well as by paying $20, inquirers are legally ordained, and […]
Findings & Footnotes: April 2001
01: A new religious freedom report from Forum 18, a Norwegian coalition of non-governmental organizations, is unique in its focus on how nations deal with conversions to other faiths, as well as differing registration systems — in other words, how religions are officially recognized and tolerated by governments. The report, entitled Freedom of Religion, looks at […]
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