On May Day, it is estimated that millions of immigrants and allies will participate in “The Great May 1st Boycott.” Protesters will stay home from school, avoid work, and cease engaging in commerce in order to demand amnesty for the nearly 12 million illegal immigrants in the US.
Juan Jose Gutierrez, national coordinator for Latino Movement [...]
Todd Beamer, husband, father of three, and American hero, will be remembered as one of the brave of September 11 that suffered death on Flight 93.
In this week’s WSJ, Todd’s father, David writes (here) of the importance of this weekend’s release of “United 93″ (see trailer here), the film that depicts the events that led [...]
On Pascha (Easter) night in the Eastern Church, Orthodox Christian Church ministers do not preach their own sermon but rather preach the homily on the Resurrection by John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, a man considered by most to be one the greatest preachers in the history of Christianity.
The homily, translated by Mark Arey, pastor of [...]
According to my calendar, last week was Easter. But to the other half of the Christian world, it was today.
The Reason? Western churches use the Gregorian calendar, while Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar.
Both agree that the resurrection occurred on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox, [...]
Here, Jeff Weiss at the Dallas Morning News discusses the centennial history of Pentecostals, calling them “America’s most successful spiritual export.”
In his article, he notes, “Pentecostalism has thrived despite having two early core doctrines proven wrong. Early Pentecostal leaders believed that Jesus was returning soon. That urgency explained why they expected help from the Holy [...]
In this weekend’s Star-Telegram, early coverage of resolutions that may appear on the floor of the SBC stirs the waters of the DFW metroplex, here in the buckle of the Bible-belt.
Here, a pastor from Arlington’s Parkview Baptist Church, which is aligned solely with the conservative Southern Baptist Convention of Texas, articulates his objection to recent [...]
Christians around the world draw together this Sunday to celebrate the power of the resurrection, and to worship the Risen Lord.
No services are held on Saturday to celebrate his burial, because the day of his entombment marks to the pinnacle of his humiliation in death.
Many overlook the significance of this day, looking back to Friday [...]
Discussions around the world this week peaked concerning the gospel of Judas. In today’s NYT (here), Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton, relishes the discovery of this new ‘twist’ on Jesus’ ministry.
Unlike Irenaeus, who called this work and those like it heresy and blasphemy, Ms. Pagels sees this work as one that “explodes the myth [...]
In today’s NYT, Jack Hitt constructs graphic and disturbing account of the underground abortion industry in El Salvador, a country where all abortion is illegal. He uses the tragedies of illegal activity and death to build a case for keeping abortion legal in the US, asking rhetorically, “Who would ever want this kind of crime [...]
In this article, Mark Tooley demonstrates the flaccidity of preaching in many of our nation’s pulpits.
Just a taste:
“How can America repent for its complicity in Global Warming? The “repentance” required by the Religious Left includes all the demands of the secular Green Left: comply with the Kyoto Accord, reduce economic growth, regulate the economy more, [...]
