The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founder of Southern California’s Crystal Cathedral megachurch and host of the Hour of Power televangelism broadcast, announced Sunday he will retire as lead pastor after 55 years in the pulpit and his daughter will take over.
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Hour of Power pastor Robert Schuller retiring
Randall Stephens A review essay in the July 2 issue of the TLS is well worth the read (though it doesn’t appear to be on-line). It gives some perspective on whatever counts as “secularization” in the United States.
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Everything is Bigger than Jesus in England
Todays’ guest post comes from Matt Bowman , a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University who normally blogs at Juvenile Instructor. Matt follows up on my post from Friday focusing on the theological motifs in Dan Gilbert’s open letter to Cleveland Cavaliers fans.
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Gilbert’s Jeremiad of LeBron the False Prophet, Part II
TORONTO – A Canadian Sikh security guard in Toronto, who moved the Ontario provincial human rights commission for being forced to wear a hard helmet by Home Depot, has won his case against the world’s largest home-improvement retailer. In its ruling, Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal said Home Depot (Canada) discriminated against Deepinder Loomba by “enforcing” a hard hat on him and threatening him with dismissal if he didn’t comply. Headquartered near Atlanta in the US, Home Depot has about 180 stores across Canada.
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Canadian Sikh Wins Discrimination Lawsuit Against Home Depot
Forty-four percent of Americans have changed their religious affiliation, many joining a different denomination from the one in which they were raised or abandoning organized religion altogether, according to the 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
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Open invitation
Charles Colson reveals government’s agenda to limit freedom of religion and expand homosexual benefits.
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Colson reveals govt.’s goal to limit freedom of religion
A report sharply critical of Israel could have led to a fight within the church. But the General Assembly averts a battle by toning down some of the language. A week ago, the Presbyterian Church USA seemed headed for a bruising, polarizing battle over a report on the Middle East that sharply criticized Israel
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Presbyterian Church finds middle ground in Middle East debate
The Dalai Lama, who just celebrated his 75th birthday, often refers to the ‘oneness’ of all religions, the idea that all religions preach the same message of love, tolerance and compassion. Historians Karen Asmstrong and Huston Smith agree that major faiths are more alike than not. But in his new book “God is not One,” religion scholar and On Faith panelist Steve Prothero says views by the Dalai Lama, Armstrong and Smith that all religions…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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All religions the same?
Paul Harvey Mike Altman and others here frequently have called for expanding the boundaries of the sacred for analysis, and since various contributors here have posted on everything from Disney Religion to Green Day’s American Idiot to early modern tattoos, I should think this would be a receptive venue for an expansive view of religious ritual. All the same, there’s plenty of room here for traditional theological analysis.
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Remember, LeBron, You Got to Go Through Hell Before You Get to Heaven
I think most preachers who have some level of commitment to an expository approach to preaching are fairly clear on the importance of understanding the Bible and their listeners. It is the two worlds that John Stott referred to in his great book on the subject
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Projected Perspectives