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A thought-provoking story about a church and a criminal The prosecution of an ex-policeman convicted of coercing sex from women has brought attention to an unlikely place: a large, liberal and feminist church congregation that offered to oversee his punishment so he could avoid going to prison. First Congregational Church had never before gone to…

….spending a lot of time and energy arguing about the role of secular Jews in communism, why don’t we worry about the role of American Catholics in supporting legal abortion and other fruits of contemporary civilization? I mean, really.

A three-year long study draws to a close Diocesan churches serving more than 800,000 Catholics engaged in a lengthy period of self-study and reflection and came up with goals they shared with other churches in their regions. The last of 12 major regional confabs involving nearly 2,000 majority-lay leaders was held Sunday, and the 131…

Pope meets Caviezel Caviezel, who plays Jesus in the film, had a brief conversation with the pontiff, who then blessed the devoutly Roman Catholic actor, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Ciro Benedettini said. He had no further information on their discussion. The ANSA news agency said Caviezel arrived in Rome Saturday, and attended a private screening…

Their perspective is slightly different Brown’s book has found an especially enthusiastic audience in Utah, where some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have long believed that Jesus had a wife. Others even think that some early Mormon leaders were Christ’s descendants.

The guys at xxxchurch.com, a Christian ministry dedicated to help people free themselves of porn addictions, have hooked up with a pornographer to make a public-service announcement XXXchurch.com is the edgy brainchild of Gross and Foster, two youth pastors who saw a void in mainstream Christian churches’ ministry: a lack of outreach to men who…

From a Case-Western Reserve prof Whether or not they were accustomed to the violence, however, most Christian students see the film in terms of divine incarnation and vicarious atonement. They recognize the Jesus in this movie as the incarnation of God, and they understand that he’s there, in flesh and blood, to be sacrificed as…

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At the Weekly Standard, Matt Labash looks at a new compliation of gospel music and does a bit of comparison with CCM THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF GRAND THEMES running through Goodbye, Babylon: deliverance and judgement, mortal expiration and eternal salvation. Many secular critics haven’t quite gotten past the buckets of blood, alluded to in…

From Opinion Journal Sex, childbearing and marriage now have no necessary connection to one another, because the biological connection between sex and childbearing is controllable. The fundamental basis for marriage has thus been technologically obviated. Pair that development with rampant, easy divorce without social stigma, and talk in 2004 of “saving marriage” is pretty specious.…
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