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August 28 2010
Author: More teens becoming 'fake' Christians
Dean is a minister, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of "Almost Christian," a new book that argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on this self-serving strain of Christianity.
She says this "imposter'' faith is one reason teenagers abandon churches.
"If this is the God they're seeing in church, they are right to leave us in the dust," Dean says. "Churches don't give them enough to be passionate about."
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August 27 2010
The Pursuit of Misery: Why the Religious Left is Permanently Unhappy
Arthur Brooks, president of The American Enterprise Institute has written Gross National Happiness to analyze the American experience and the King of Bhutan has launched a similarly named project in his own country to better its citizens.
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August 27 2010
Obama and Allah, round two - Terry Mattingly
This is the kind of biographical detail that keeps complicating matters for journalists who try to make sense of the poll from the Pew Research Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life indicating that 18 percent of Americans think Obama is a Muslim, as opposed to 11 percent in March 2009.
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August 27 2010
Turning a Blind Eye
In spite of the commonalities, Christians in Islamist-dominated Indonesia have a far more difficult road than the Christians of St. Nicholas, the little church that stood on Liberty Street, across from the World Trade Center South Tower. But Christians in Indonesia, and throughout the Islamic world, should serve as a warning of what may happen if tolerance and accommodation unreasonably are extended to those who are intolerant and unaccommodating.
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August 26 2010
Seminary president says evolution 'incompatible' with Christian faith
Karl Giberson, vice president of the BioLogos Foundation, a Christian group formed to promote harmony between science and faith, reacted in the Huffington Post to comments critical of Darwin by Mohler delivered June 19 at an annual conference of Ligonier Ministries, founded by Calvinist theologian and pastor R.C. Sproul.
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August 20 2010
The Separation of Islamophilia from State
The moment one thinks this presidency has hit the bottom of grim parody it finds a new one.
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August 20 2010
Obama: Lacks Wisdom & Courage - Mike McManus
What mattered is what he said: "Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everybody else in this country." (He's right.)
However, he added, "That involves the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable."
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August 18 2010
Top Ten Gay Marriage False "Facts" - Frank Turek
Since that fact is unquestionably true, how can Judge Walker honestly declare that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment? Certainly no one in 1868 intended the Fourteenth Amendment to redefine marriage. Only the most tyrannical form of judicial activism can get Judge Walker to his conclusion.
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August 17 2010
WISDOM: Marriage over the rainbow
Having dismissed the stated motives of Proposition 8 supporters, the judge claimed to have "uncloak[ed]" their true motives: "The evidence shows conclusively that moral and religious views form the only basis for a belief that same-sex couples are different from opposite-sex couples."
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August 16 2010
Do Americans Change Faiths? - Barna Report
Anne Rice is not alone. She shares a spiritual profile with nearly 60 million other adults nationwide. In the Barna study, the matter of faith switching was explored in several ways. First, respondents identified their childhood faith, if any, and then were asked to list their current faith allegiance. A comparison of the two answers showed that nearly one-quarter of adults (23%) had moved from one faith or faith tradition to another.
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