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The Consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson: A New Day of Infamy
With less than a month before the upcoming Sept. 30 deadline handed to The Episcopal Church to make an unequivocal pledge not to consecrate another openly gay bishop or bless same-sex unions, this commentary is being republished by request. It was originally published Monday, November 3, 2003.
How to Share Your Faith Using High School Musical 2
Music and romance are once again front and centre stage in the sequel movie High School Musical 2. This time around the HMS plot finds Troy and Gabriella on summer break - but hard at work.
Rick Warren: Flavouring Your Sermons for Impact
The Bible says in Colossians 4:6 (RSV), "Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt." When you cook a meal, the flavouring is not the meat, but it sure makes the meat taste better. The same is true for your sermons.
Darelene Zschech: Bringing the Worship of God
Hey friends, well, it is a great honour again to sit and write to you. Mark and I and an amazing team of people have just returned from a trip to Cambodia, Indonesia, and Sth Africa, where I just stand in awe at the resilience of the human spirit, as people hourly defy all odds to live another day.
Evangelical Statement on Consultation: 'Towards an Ethical Approach to Conversion'
The World Evangelical Alliance has issued a statement of clarification following the consultation held in Toulouse, France, 9 - 12 August 200, on the issue of conversion.
Feature: Faith is Inspiration for Most Tourists to Iraq
Its ancient sites may have been damaged and looted, its hotels bombed and its people attacked or forced to flee, but Iraq is still worth a visit, the head of its Tourism Commission says.
WEA - A Statement on Evangelical Social Engagement
A statement released following a consultation conducted by the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance.
Feature: Women Worldwide Find Muslim Veil Limits Job Choice
Aysha Obeid couldn't get a job as a shop assistant in Dubai because of the veil that covered her face, exposing only her eyes to the outside world. So to improve her employment prospects, Obeid stopped wearing the veil.
John Stott's Final Sermon: The Model - Becoming More Like Christ
Dr John Stott's final sermon before his retirement from public ministry, delivered at the Keswick Convention 17 July 2007.
Rick Warren: Helping You Build Community
I love pastors. My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all pastors. My sister married a pastor. I married a pastor's daughter, and my daughter married a pastor.
Feature: Mosque Plans Across Europe Face Protests
Petitions in London, protests in Cologne, a court case in Marseille and a violent clash in Berlin -- Muslims in Europe are meeting resistance to plans for mosques that befit Islam's status as the continent's second religion.
Young Muslims, Jews, Christians Share 'Spiritual Free-Diving' Experience
The chapel at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, near Geneva, in which young adults from five continents have gathered for an early morning meditation is quite an unusual place of worship...
Dr Carl Moeller, Open Doors USA: Persecution of Believers in Eritrea
Eritrea is a small country of four million located in eastern Africa on the Red Sea. But its lack of size and population doesn't mean it's not becoming one of the worst persecutors of Christians in the world.
Rick Warren: Seven Principles for Every Project
As a pastor, you need to be able to put together projects efficiently and effectively.
Darlene Zschech: Strength in Diversity
I would gather that many of you reading this would know that WORSHIP, when it comes to the fullness of what the word actually means, consists of all we are, at all times, in all we do, being lived as an act of worship... living to please the heart of God.
Response from Lawyers' Christian Fellowship to Hereford Sexual Discrimination Case
The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship has issued a full response to the ruling of a recent employment tribunal that found that the Diocese of Hereford had discriminated against a homosexual man in not appointing him to a youth worker post, despite allegedly being the leading candidate.