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via:christianpost Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll recently came to the defense of fellow Christian minister Joel Osteen, while admitting that his “Reformed brothers like to treat Pastor Joel like a pinata.” In a recent interview with The Gospel Coalition, the Mars Hill Church pastor was asked to comment on a segment of his new book, […]
via:christianpost GoDaddy.com and Calvin Klein ads left more to be desired among Super Bowl watchers. Some Super Bowl viewers posted comments of disgust and disapproval at the racy GoDaddy commercial featuring super model Bar Refaeli and a regular “Joe” displaying too much PDA that included unnecessary slobbering and sound effects. Meanwhile, Calvin Klein featured […]
via:blackchristiannews Even though only 3 percent of Americans identify as fans of the Baltimore Ravens (1 percent) or San Francisco 49ers (2 percent), 66 percent of Americans are likely to tune in to Super Bowl XLVII, including 42 percent who say they seldom or never watch sports, a new survey finds. Nearly 3-in-10 (27 percent) […]
via:christianpost Americans are giving more to charity but the church is increasingly getting less of the goodwill from their pockets. How much less? At least $1 billion worth of it, says the Atlas of Giving, and that’s only what’s predicted for this year alone. Despite positive growth in overall charitable donations from Americans in the […]
via:blackchristiannews According to the startling results of a survey released last week by the Public Religion Research Institute, 57 percent of white evangelicals live in homes where someone owns a gun (compared, for example, with 31 percent of Catholics.) And more startling, even after 20 first-graders were slaughtered in Connecticut at the hands of a […]
via:blackchristiannews A recent study concludes children whose parents divorce when they are young are less likely to be religious later in life. According to the study, two-thirds of young adults who grew up in a home with married parents are more religious than young adults who grew up in families with divorced […]
via:christianpost Millions of American adults, particularly Protestants and evangelicals, feel religious freedoms have grown worse in the last decade in the United States, and foresee further restrictions in the years to come, according to the results of a new study. Slightly more than half of adults say they are very (29 percent) or somewhat (22 […]
By: Thom S. Rainer via:blackchristiannews Numbers of gifted persons and organizations have studied the phenomenon of the church “back door,” the metaphorical way we describe people leaving the church. And there will always be the anticipated themes of relocation or personal crises. We should recognize those issues, though we can respond to the latter […]
via:blackchristiannews As the nation celebrates what would have been Martin Luther King’s 83rd birthday, Sharon Shahid wonders whether his famed essay, Letter from Birmingham Jail, “would have made such a lasting impression or had as powerful an impact if today’s instant communication devices existed, and if someone smuggled a BlackBerry or a mobile phone […]
via:eurweb In a scene from the movie “Lincoln,” a Democrat arguing against passage of the 13th Amendment derisively mentions the idea of interracial marriage to ridicule the legislation that would abolish slavery. A century-and-a-half later, as an African-American president is inaugurated for a second term, interracial unions still are relatively rare. Read More
