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Apologetics
Question of the week: What do Mormons believe?
Question: “What is Mormonism? What do Mormons believe?” Answer: The Mormon religion (Mormonism), whose followers are known as Mormons and Latter Day Saints (LDS), was founded less than two hundred years ago by a man...
Arts & Culture
Religious groups latch on to the Groupon craze
Social deals are going spiritual. Inspired by their religious callings ― and the $713 million in revenue that social deal pioneer Groupon took in last year ― a growing number of entrepreneurs are making a go of the fast-growing...
Featured
Dead Sea Scrolls now available online
Internet users can now view online five of the Dead Sea Scrolls that for the past decades have been kept in a climate-controlled display at Jerusalem’sIsraelMuseum. The website, which was developed by the museum in partnership ...
News
Archbishop of Canterbury asks Mugabe to halt attacks on Anglicans
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on 10 October met Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe and asked him to intervene to stop attacks on Anglicans by allies of an excommunicated bishop who has seized church property and...
The Double Lives of Iraq’s Christian Children
Little Nuria and her sisters love singing songs about Jesus. But when people Nuria doesn’t know ask her if she’s a Christian, she doesn’t know what to answer; instead, she looks questioningly at her mother or father. She is 6 y...
News
Metal thieves are damaging British churches
As commodity prices soar, thieves are targeting British churches and other institutions, taking copper lightning rods, lead rain pipes, bronze statues, iron gates, even church bells and entire roofs. “Boom conditions in C...
News
Egyptians Mourn Massacre of Coptic Christians
Funeral services were held today in Cairo for some of the victims of a military attack against a group of Christian protestors that left 26 dead and hundreds wounded. In the wake of what could be the worst act of violence agai...
Christian leaders plot ecumenical future in Indonesia
An estimated 275 Christian leaders are meeting in Indonesia from 4 to 7 October to plot an ecumenical future in what one veteran of the ecumenical movement called a watershed gathering. Leaders of the fledgling Global Christian...
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: The Path of Least Resentment
Near Mpumalanga, South Africa, are the marvelous and mysterious Echo Caves. Rediscovered in the last century and turned into a tourist site, these caverns are home to a truly remarkable ecosystem. One of the more amazing specie...
Apologetics
Question of the week: Capital punishment and the Bible
Question: “What does the Bible say about the death penalty / capital punishment?” Answer: The Old Testament law commanded the death penalty for various acts: murder (Exodus 21:12), kidnapping (Exodus 21:16), bestial...