Author: John B. Chilton

Person to person evangelism works best, survey says

The survey found only two ways most people said they were somewhat or very willing to “receive information” about Jesus: 63% would hear it in a “personal conversation with a family member,” or with a friend or neighbor from the church (56%

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Intimations of “an ultimate reality?”

Some baffling discoveries led Bernard d’Espagnat to believe all creation has a wholeness and interrelatedness… One of these is entanglement, the way that paired subatomic particles remain linked even if they move far apart, so that experimenting with one automatically effects the other without any apparent communication between them.

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Pullman lauds Williams, but asks if his strategy is working

Philip Pullam has debated with, among others, the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, the local atheist, Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Of the last, he says, with unmistakable awe in his voice: “Oh, I would not dare take my life in my hands by arguing with him. He is far too clever for me – I am a storyteller and that’s the beginning and end of it.”

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Pop goes the sermon

In one example of how clergy are attempting to use technology and popular culture to reach out to the young, Gardner is constructing a monthly sermon using songs from the iPods of her students, rather than biblical excerpts from a lectionary, as her texts. In her first three efforts, she has attempted to extract moral lessons from the lyrics of Kanye West, Nickelback, and India.Arie.

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