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Viewpoint: In the War Over Christianity, Orthodoxy is Winning
In an age of secularization, religious traditionalism is surprisingly resilient
‘Cristianismo Hoy’: Christianity Today to Publish in Spanish
Christianity Today, America’s flagship evangelical magazine, has preliminary plans to publish a Spanish-language edition titled Cristianismo Hoy as soon as next...
Bill O’Reilly, Anders Breivik and the Hubris of Judging Faith
Ever since the murderous rampage in Norway last week, Bill O’Reilly and other American conservatives have sought to insist that the alleged Norwegian terrorist...
In Pakistan, Christianity Earns a Death Sentence
It all began a year and a half ago, with a quarrel over a bowl of water. A group of women farm workers were suffering in the heat near a village in Pakistan's...
Raimon Panikkar
Decades before interfaith studies and dialogue became all the rage, Raimon Panikkar set the Catholic world astir by insisting that Christianity could learn from...
Christianity's Surge in Indonesia
They flocked to the open field by the hundreds to praise Allah. In a village in central Java, just a few miles from where Indonesian special forces shot dead...
Christianity's Image Problem
It used to be, says David Kinnaman, that Christianity was both big and beloved in the U.S. — even among its non-adherents. Back in 1996, a poll taken by...
Hollywood vs. Jesus
In the movies, if you want to hook an audience, you throw them a surprise while telling them a story they've heard before. James Cameron knows how to hook an...
Early Christianity's Martyrdom Debate
Princeton University's Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her...
Christianity, Islam And The Pope
It would be better if Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders would seek open dialogue with Muslim clerics rather than confront them with inflammatory...
How Christianity Thrives in China
President Bush's decision to take time out from his diplomatic schedule to pray with the congregants of the Protestant Gangwashi Church in western Beijing has...
Religion: Castro Looks At Christianity
Ever since I had the use of reason, the name Jesus Christ was one of the most familiar in my house and in school during my infancy and adolescence. I never saw a...
Christianity: Beyond Bingo
Except for Bingo and the Roman soldiers who cast lots for the robe of Jesus, games have never had much to do with religion. Until now. Family-game players who...
Theology: In Search of a Black Christianity
Black theology is the only genuine manifestation of Christianity in America today. White theology is basically racist and nonChristian. If there is any...
Christianity: Underground Manifesto
"The Church is struggling, sacrificing even its own integrity, to sustain its organic life recognized in terms of buildings, stained glass, real estate, and...
Christianity: Reformation Day Looks Ahead
On Oct. 29, Reformation Sunday, members of ten Protestant churches in Albert Lea, Minn., will proceed in a motorcade to the Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbey...
Christianity: The Underground Church
Bowing his head over the bottle of Saint-Emilion and a sliced loaf of whole-wheat bread on the living-room table, the priest prayerfully recalled the Last...
Christianity: The Kiss of Peace
The visit to the Vatican last week by the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Anglican Primate of All England, was shadowed by enmities past and lighted by amity present...
Theology: Religionless Christianity
God is in heaven, exact location not defined. His son came to earth in human flesh, preached and worked miracles, by his death redeemed man, and rose again to...
Religion: Judaized Christianity?
In search of new religious stirrings in the Holy Land, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J., paid 14 visits to Israel in the past...
