1 day ago by Luke Coppen

Pope Benedict XVI returned to the theme of the “dictatorship of relativism” at his general audience yesterday. The Catholic News Service sums up his thoughts. Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world is voted the top religion story of 2009. A study suggests that a third of the world’s nations supp ...

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10 days ago by BigBlueFrog

I normally find nothing of any worth on either the American Family Association website or their news arm, OneNewsNow.com. Both sites are prime examples of fundamentalist Christian thought in America today, and I have little patience for them. I have to admit that I did find at least one statement of ...

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14 days ago by bibliotecaiie

“Breve historia de los Estados Unidos” por Philip Jenkins “Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta obra recorre el desarrollo histórico de este país desde los inic ...

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18 days ago by Doug

Evidence for Philip Jenkins focus on the southern emergence of Christianity and its impact on the future of world affairs can pop up in the strangest places. the following is a striking example. At the recent Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay, the new MWC President Danisa Ndlovu, bishop of the ...

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57 days ago by eafcatolica

Zenit.- Se ha hablado demasiado prematuramente de la muerte del Cristianismo en Europa. Así lo afirma el experto en sociología de la religión Philip Jenkins, episcopaliano americano y autor de numerosos trabajos reconocidos mundialmente. En una entrevista concedida al diario italiano Avvenire, Jenki ...

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58 days ago by tonibandin

Se ha hablado demasiado prematuramente de la muerte del Cristianismo en Europa. Así lo afirma el experto en sociología de la religión Philip Jenkins, episcopaliano americano y autor de numerosos trabajos reconocidos mundialmente. En una entrevista concedida al diario italiano Avvenire, Jenkins rebat ...

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72 days ago by Matthew Moffitt

Long term readers of hebel might remember that one of my earliest post's was on the real history of the Crusades. American sociologist Rodney Stark has just released a new book on the crusades that I read over the October long weekend. God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades is Stark's attempt t ...

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102 days ago by John

I have heard some of these stats before and read something similar in Philip Jenkins book “The New Christendom”, but they never fail to amaze me. Found this on the Going Global blog the other day… This past Sunday it is possible that more Christian believers attended church in China than in all of s ...

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119 days ago by Gerard O'Neill

I recently listened to a fascinating and inspiring interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali over at Point of Inquiry. She describes her own personal journey from a strict Muslim upbringing in Somalia to her life today in the West (including police protection because of her outspoken criticisms of the treatmen ...

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148 days ago by Gardening

The most recent issue of the Journal of Mormon History actually arrived a little while back, but I’ve been slow to post this. Since the next will be here soon, I’d better get this out! I’ll be more prompt next time! First, the JMH has published Philip Jenkins’ 2008 Tanner Lecture entitled “Letting G ...

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