Christianity's future; the first-world church takes a back seat.

The Futurist;  March 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Christianity's Future The First-World Church Takes a Back Seat...order. The term the church includes all orthodox branches of Christianity. The phrase first...will be granted to Christianity. No preferential...will be given to churches. Religious chaplaincies...

Piety and politics in African Christianity: the roles of the church and...

Journal of Church and State;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......some ways, the church is now returning...African roots. (2) Christianity originated in...Africans accepted Christianity as their primary...religion when the church first reached...developments of African Christianity and what role the church in the West...

Alpha shows searchers a way home; A global program that features informal...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......doesn't look like church. And that is the...was a class about Christianity offered by Alpha...draws people to Christianity is priceless in a time when mainstream churches are hemorrhaging...from talk about Christianity, he said. Alpha...discipleship, the church is responsible...

The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and...

Church History;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and...tree focus of Church leaders became...assault on Christianity and on a Western...preponderance of Church of England...assault on Christianity, and the post-w...

Church adverts avoid mention of Christianity 'We don't seem to feel...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 9, 2001 ;     514 words ......references to the Church or Christianity is to be launched...Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, that Christianity has almost been...showed that the Churches no longer felt...promote simple Christianity. One senior clergyman...

Church's growth highlights Christianity's attraction in Africa

The Boston Globe;  April 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ......to evangelical Christianity, decided to start a church. He had just 13...Tanzania. The church's phenomenal growth...dramatic spread of Christianity across sub-Saharan...of Pentecostal churches, like Kakobe's...strive to integrate Christianity with traditional...Africans are drawn to ...

Notable clerics and Anglican goats.(The Church of England and the...

Midstream;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory, and Nazism...Roman Catholic Church and the person...German Confessing Church. Entirely discounted...Jewish sources of Christianity. In fact Niemoller...logic of historic Christianity's relentless drive...leading British ...

More Americans embrace Orthodoxy: Ancient form of Christianity traces...

Charleston Daily Mail;  December 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Antiochian Orthodox Church, a body with roots...earliest decades of Christianity. One of roughly...attracted to a Christianity both exotic and ancient, embodied by a church many of them never...will have on a church that believers...earliest days of Christianity. Before 1054, a ...

The History of the Church/Christianity: A Short Global History

Anglican Theological Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The History of the Church. By Guy Bedouelle. New York...307 pp. $29.95 (paper). Christianity: A Short Global History...comprehensive survey of church history is not a consideration...office by a post-conciliar church and world. He holds that...acknowledging "that the Catholic Church's current ...

Practical Christianity Cornerstone Community Church builds on the basics

Concord Monitor;  February 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Foreman improvise with the church's surroundings, he's creative...to feel obliged to go to church. He wants them to look forward...banks and many gave to the church. "The Bible gives great...afterlife. "I think that Christianity is intensely practical...pastor at a non-traditional church in ...

The centrality of gender justice in prophetic Christianity and the mission...

International Review of Mission;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......In this respect, Christianity is the foundation...early Christian church, and explicit in...Spirit, and this Christianity stressed radically...arrangements. Ideally, the church as the body of...empire, however, Christianity became highly apocalyptic...authorities of the church, which ...

Christianity and the Middle East: Centuries-Long Immunity From Attacks on...

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  December 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ...CHRISTIANITY AND THE MIDDLE EAST: Centuries-Lo...From Attacks on Bethlehem's Church of Nativity Ends Fred Strickert...gunfire struck the adjacent church of St. Catherine, frightening...occupation soldiers fired at the Church of Nativity. I visited the Church," Nasser continued, "and...few ...

A church closed Monday to Friday is 'worst advert for Christianity' Move...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  April 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ......and villages. He believes churches can make the best of their...counselling. He said: A church that is closed Monday to...possible advertisement for Christianity. We cannot go on locking...to open the doors of the churches physically, as well as...said it was a way for the church to move ...

"Making Christianity, Through the Armenian Church Tradition, Relevant in...

Armenian Reporter, The;  January 12, 2002 ;     595 words ......ministry in the Armenian Church welcoming to non-Armenians...friends of the Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs gathered...Pastor, entitled "Making Christianity, Through the Armenian and...tradition of the Armenian Church in the contexts of the biblical...these divisions within the Church. ...

The imagined crusade: the Church of England and the mythology of...

Church History;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......The Quiver, to evaluate the Church of England's attempted usurpation...At the outbreak in 1914, church leaders attacked the Christian...antithesis of ennobled English Christianity. But by 1915-16 the lingering...During the crisis, many church leaders again became anxious...attention from attacking ...