The Desert Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church is proposing a resolution, to be considered by their General Conference in 2008, condemning the tactics of the Institute for Religion and Democracy and calling for all Methodists to cease working with this organization.
More than 21 million people are expected to drop in on a new wave of online interactive ads being launched by one of the nation’s largest Protestant denominations. As part of a multi-million dollar “Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.” advertising campaign, The United Methodist Church will target the younger generation (22- to 44-year-olds) over the next two months with ad messages on the Internet.
Elvis asked for a “little less conversation, a little more action please.” The moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Joan S. Gray, asks
A Pew Internet & American Life Project report revealed that 64 percent of Internet users in 2003 used the Web for spiritual and religious activities,
There are a number of news stories out this evening about what the decisions made by the Evangelical Lutheran Church meeting in the final day
“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.
Mark I. Pinsky writing in USA Today, “This is more than what Freud called “the narcissism of small differences.” The emerging face and voice of American evangelicalism is that of a pragmatic, politically sophisticated, pastor of a middle class megachurch.”
The Episcopal Church and the Canadian Anglican Church are not the only denominations that will confront the issue of same sex realtionships this year. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (“ELCA”), the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States will at their biannual assembly in Chicago next week.
Former Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Jane Holmes Dixon, offers her thoughts on the reintroduction of the Latin Mass by the Roman Catholic Church.
A national survey of about 2,500 religious leaders showed that 76 percent were either overweight or obese. Forty percent said they were depressed at times, or worn out “some or most of the time.”