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January 2011

January 20, 2011

Why not Christianity?

A British journalist asks why many of her countrymen are overlooking Christianity and converting to...

January 11, 2011

List of common misconceptions

Something really interesting from Wikipedia: An extensive List of common misconceptions in history, science, religion,...

January 07, 2011

Atheists’ diversity problem

Atheists are worried because nearly all atheists are white and most of them are men:...

December 2010

December 30, 2010

Top religious developments of 2010

What do you think were the major developments in the world of religion for 2010? ...

December 21, 2010

Someone I know has been martyred!

That American tourist who was murdered in Israel--I knew her! Kristine Luken. She worked for...

December 09, 2010

Why don’t we protect Iraqi Christians?

World editor Mindy Belz raises a good question about U.S. policy in Iraq: Three years...

December 03, 2010

Atheists seeking market share

Get ready for a bunch of ads promoting atheism, funded by at least four different...

November 2010

November 30, 2010

Religion means "be careful"

In a discussion of how Roman Catholic church bureaucracy and the American Academy of Religion...

November 18, 2010

Religion blocks consumerism

In another odd experiment, it seems as if religious people are less susceptible to buying...

November 11, 2010

Christian persecution intensifies in Iraq

Islamic militants in Iraq have turned their attention to their Christian neighbors, declaring that Christians...

October 2010

October 13, 2010

The Four Gods

Baylor sociologists Paul Froese and Christopher Bader have conducted research into people's conception of God....

October 07, 2010

The rest of what I said: on religion & facts

There wasn't room for everything that I said in that interview the Washington Examiner did...

October 05, 2010

Schism among the atheists

The problem with atheists is that they can't get along with each other and keep...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Obama’s confession of faith

President Obama was asked at a recent meeting with voters why he was a Christian. ...

September 29, 2010

Do atheists know more about religion than the religious?

That's what a Pew Research study of "religious knowledge" suggests: Atheists and agnostics, Jews and...

September 21, 2010

Spiritual, but not religious

Read Mollie Hemingway's take on the "spiritual but not religious" line in Christianity Today. An...

September 02, 2010

A Mormon on the Glenn Beck rally

Here is a discussion of the Glenn Beck rally--what it means and what it achieves--from...

September 02, 2010

Islam and the tolerance police

From an award-winning post from Scott Kirwin: In America Islam is a relatively new religion....

September 01, 2010

The connections between atheism and Christianity

Rob Moll tells about how atheists were instrumental in his coming to Christianity: "If there...

August 2010

August 31, 2010

The Gospel according to Glenn Beck

Hundreds of thousands of Americans attended Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial. In the...

August 12, 2010

Islam losing ground to Christianity?

Christianity may be declining in the West and Islam is surging, but in the world...

August 09, 2010

Julia Roberts converts to Hinduism

Movie star Julia Roberts--the ex-wife of Missouri Synod Lutheran Lyle Lovett--has converted to Hinduism, along...

August 05, 2010

Ray Bradbury on God

Ray Bradbury is not just a great science fiction writer. He is a great writer,...

August 04, 2010

Lutheran conversion testimonies

Some may consider that phrase a contradiction in terms. But a new book contains the...

August 02, 2010

How atheists are like Protestants

An anthropologist, Alex Golub, beginning with descriptions of the atheists' new unbaptism rite (which involves...

July 2010

July 01, 2010

Supremes say college Christian groups must admit non-Christians

A strange ruling from the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

“Freedom of Religion” vs. “Freedom of Worship”?

Some human rights and religious freedom activists have noted that President Obama and the State...

June 28, 2010

Christian fundamentalist narco-gang

Time Magazine reports on one of those ultra-violent drug gangs in Mexico: Mexico’s newest drug...

June 23, 2010

And now an interfaith seminary

A southern California seminary will soon start training not only Christian pastors but also Jewish...

June 18, 2010

Now Hinduism is also going commercial

Much of contemporary Christianity has embraced the commercial culture, from church growth marketing and consumerism...