Social networking tools on the internet are providing new ways of giving and getting involved. “You can donate money to a charity, but it seems like it just goes into a pile and you never know what really goes on there,” says Mr. Alamo. “With Kiva, you just pick someone out and lend to them directly and watch what they do and how they succeed. That was the main appeal.”
Governor Perry is a devout Christian, highlighting one key factor in Texas’ enthusiasm for the death penalty that many outsiders find puzzling — the support it gets from conservative evangelical churches.
This is in line with their emphasis on individuals taking responsibility for their own salvation, and they also find justification in scripture.
“A lot of evangelical Protestants not only believe that capital punishment is permissible but that it is demanded by God. And they see sanction for that in the Old Testament especially,” said Matthew Wilson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
“Their behaviours do not conform to the religious conduct of the Anglican church because it is them that ordained homosexuals as bishops not Africans”. Bishop Rucahana said the Anglican Church in Rwanda will not be pushed into adopting the satanic behaviour of the “whites because they are whites”.
Colorado Christian University has fired the teacher of a course on globalization. The school says faith in the free enterprise system is central to its mission. The professor says he simply stops short of deifying capitalism.
At one of the first plenary sessions, the organizers announced (to much applause) that no official statements would come from the meeting. Instead, lots of time was scheduled for conversation, including meals, siestas, and “marketplace” encounters.
Bill Mehr writes: “When The Falls Church asked about room to temporarily worship at the Presbyterian Church down the street, they were told, “We were waiting for you to call.” St. Margaret’s rector told how they’d started Sunday services with four worshippers, two of which were clergy. Now they average more than 60. Now, the hymns are accompanied, with sublime grace and beauty, by one man playing a trumpet.”
The Colorado Springs Gazette reports: DENVER – An ecclesiastical court on Wednesday convicted the Rev. Donald Armstrong of stealing nearly $400,000 from his Colorado Springs
“Though some explain it away as a utilitarian action to cleanse the hands before touching ‘thy creatures of bread and wine,’ which will in turn be consumed by priest and people, the weight of church tradition says that this is a moment of spiritual cleansing as the priest assumes the weighty responsibility of bearing the assembly’s prayers and oblations. In other words, the Lavabo isn’t about germiness.” Those are the words of Anglicans Online. But that was before Purell.
“The very parched nature of evangelical visual culture is making people who have grown up in this culture thirsty for beauty,” says Andy Crouch, editorial director for Christianity Today’s Christian Vision Project.
USA Today reports,”Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 — both evangelical and mainline — who went to church regularly in high school said they quit attending by age 23, according to the survey by LifeWay Research.”