The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced the rather unusual move of filing an amicus brief ( full text ) in a case pending in a state trial court. Estes v
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Justice Department Files Amicus Brief In Mosque Case To Argue That Islam Is A Religion
We talk a lot about God’s love. We talk about it being endless and unconditional. And we know how important it is for us to really believe in that love and to be convinced in the depths of our soul that we cannot lose that love.
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How We Think and Talk About God’s Love
The Glendale-based pancake house is suing International House of Prayer, alleging the church is violating its trademark. IHOP says its first ad campaign using that term was launched in 1973. Glendale-based IHOP has served up a federal lawsuit against a church with ministries in Pasadena and elsewhere, alleging International House of Prayer is violating its trademark.
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IHOP sues church that calls itself IHOP
This week I am in Asia, teaching an MDiv course on Preaching Biblical Narrative. I’d value your prayers for the course, the students, the travel and the family back home. On here I thought I would preload a series of posts reflecting on the place of biblical narrative in our preaching. I hope it will spark comments, but I don’t know if I’ll have internet access to approve the comments, so apologies if yours doesn’t appear for a few days.
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Preaching and Story – Part 1
Turns out positive thinking alone is not enough: Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show “Hour of Power,” filed for bankruptcy Monday in Southern California after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million. Hundreds of creditors could be owed between $50 million and $100 million, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana on Monday.
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Crystal Cathedral megachurch, home of “Hour of Power,” files for bankruptcy in California
Attorneys for Utah polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs are asking a court to delay his extradition to Texas, where he faces charges including aggravated sexual assault of a child, until Utah authorities decide whether to retry him.
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Defense asks court to delay cult leader Warren Jeffs’ extradition to Texas
Paul Harvey My blog contributors John Fea, Gerardo Marti, and Michael Utzinger joined me last weekend at a really wonderful event, the 20th anniversary conference and celebration of the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University .
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Christianity and Scholarship in the Public Square, the Guild, and the Church
Paul Harvey Today’s Religion Dispatches features a few of my thoughts on the God in America series which premiered last week: ” The Brutality of the American Eden: From the Underside of the Millennium. ” As the post makes clear, I enjoyed and appreciated the series, but wanted to raise some questions about freedom and authority in American history: But I do want to ask what this series would look like if we also understand American religious history to be about coercion and authority? Most of God in America is about the white Protestant majority in American history.
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From the Underside of the Millennium: My Take on God in America
Atheism is becoming the new religion, evangelicals warned. Evangelicals heard the call today to be guardians of the truth in the face of widespread indifference to religion and the “denial” of Scripture within parts of the church
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American Atheists | Atheism Is Becoming The New Religion …
I’m certainly no fashionista. Most of my shirts are of the T variety, and I’m still rocking a lot of the clothes I acquired (second hand) in high school. So take with a grain of salt the following evaluation of a recent Los Angeles Times article about Islamic headscarves getting fashionable .
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Headscarves divide Muslims too?