01: Lighthouses of Prayer is a new “low pressure” strategy of evangelism prayer among evangelical Christians. The movement, led by a coalition of Christian organizations  called Mission America, attempts to bring prayer into neighborhoods by asking Christians to pray for their neighbors. Christians  participate in the program by strolling the sidewalks and making petitions for  particular neighbors without their […]

01: The Nehemiah Team project is raising urban-suburban partnerships to a new level. The project, run by World Impact, a Los Angeles-based ministry that plants churches in poor neighborhoods, enlists suburban Christians to establish congregations in the inner-city. Four or more members of a suburban congregation volunteers to lead Bible studies, build friendships and walk through housing projects inviting […]

01: The creation of the Ave Maria School of Law to open in the year 2000 is an attempt to integrate Catholic teachings with a conventional law school curriculum. Funded by the founder, and now retired head, of Domino’s Pizza, Tom Monaghn, the Ann Arbor-based school will be the centerpiece for conservative Catholic teachings applied to the […]

01: The creation of a reformulated program known as  CEB (Comuinidades Eclesiales de Base — or Basic Ecclesial Communities) has moved out from its source at Dolores Mission Catholic Church in Los Angeles seeking to provide a model for community action though parishes across the region and the country.  Headed by Mario Fuentes and influenced by liberation theology, the […]

01: Focus is a new Catholic campus organization that is based on evangelization and Catholic orthodoxy. The group, which recently held its first national convention, operates much like its evangelical counterparts, such as InterVarsity and Campus Crusade for Christ. Focus, which is a ministry of the conservative watchdog group, Catholics United for the Faith, plans to […]

01: A Taste of Judaism is a highly successful program introducing nominal and secular Jews to the Jewish religious life. The course, started over 4 years ago by the Reform branch of Judaism, has been taken by 14,000 people around the U.S. The introductory course is offered at synagogues and was originally expected to be taken by […]

01: Track One is a new kind of denomination that’s designed by marketers and slated to go out of business in about 20 years. Track One is an evangelical movement aimed at baby boomers and younger generations offering contemporary worship and comprising about 100 churches around the U.S. Because many studies have found that religious movements rarely […]

01: The Catholic Radio Network is the most ambitious effort to create a national Catholic presence on the radio. The network, the brainchild of radio executive John Lynch, will employ a 24-hour format with a  basic “faith and values” approach. The network came on the national scene with a recent $57 million purchase of 10 AM radio stations in […]

01: The “common ground” approach to reconciling conservative liberal groups in the Catholic Church and the abortion issue is now finding a hearing among Baptists in the U.S. Former President Jimmy Carter recently convened meetings of 20 Baptist leaders to sign a declaration expressing mutual respect for each other and common concerns on racial reconciliation and religious […]

01: Interfaith dialogue for young adults (those in their 20s and 30s) is the special concern of the Abrahamic Youth Forum, a new international organization based in Israel. The project was launched by an international team of volunteers from all religious and political perspectives within mainstream Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The forum believes that dialogue is most […]