The top twenty religion stories of 2007 according to The Times.
Hat tip to the Young Fogey.
clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk
1. Churches
back plan to unite under Pope
2. US
is worst imperialist says Archbishop
3. Muslim
world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood
4. If
it isn’t Roman Catholic it’s not a proper church Pope tells Christians
5. Hardline
takeover of British mosques
6. Church
row evolves over fossil [...]
I occasionally hear discussions of the idea of house churches, and thought I would write down some of my own experience of house churches to try to organise my own thinking about them, and perhaps provoke some responses that might show me aspects of house churches that I had not heard of before. There are [...]
What’s the good, the bad and the unspeakable in Christmas worship? That’s what Internet Monk seemed to be asking in his blog, inviting readers to contribute to ‘the open thread where you, the reader, can share with us the stories of your experiences at Christmas Weekend “Worship.”’
Share what you like that’s on topic, but [...]
According to Polly Toynbee, the “war on Christmas” is an urban legend, in the UK at least.But it seems to keep getting trotted out. Every year someone is telling us, somewhere on the Internet, that there is a “war on Christmas”. But if there is, it’s not in secular Europe. Perhaps it is so [...]
There’s an interesting description of the attitude of modernity (as opposed to postmodernity) in the middle of a post about the writings of Owen Barfield:
You can see this the most clearly in the modern (not post-Modern) attitude towards the traditional Lives of the Saints among most Protestants and their fellow travelers for whom whatever could [...]
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND GOD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
Troparion Tone 4
Thy Nativity, O Christ our God
has shone to the world as the light of wisdom
For by it those who worshipped the stars
were taught by a star to adore Thee
the Sun of Righteousness
and to know Thee, the Orient from on high
O [...]
Last night we went to Grand Compline and Matins at St Nicholas in Brixton. My son, who works at a book shop, closed at 4:00pm, and was able to come, though somewhat harassed by customers who complained that the shop had closed so early, and said they were going to complain to the centre management [...]
A few days ago I noted that neopentecostals in West Africa seemed to be turning to witchhunts, which appeared to be different from the Christian responses to witchcraft and sorcery found among Christians in Southern and Eastern Africa.According to this article, similar concerns are being manifested among neopentecostal churches in the African diaspora in [...]
As Usenet and the blogoshere begin to buzz with stuff about US presidential hopefuls, and people begin dropping names one has never heard of, I did a couple of those quizzes to at least find out who were the good guys, that is, those who agree with me. And the quizzes seem to agree that [...]
Witch hunting is a very ancient practice in Africa, but in the past it has not generally been something that Christians have engaged in.Western-initiated churches, which have been influenced by modernity, have tended to regard beliefs about witchcraft as superstition, and encouraged people to discard such views.
African-initiated churches have taken witchcraft beliefs seriously, but [...]
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