Source: Music Industry News NetworkBillboard has added charts for music played on Christian radio stations, see the whole story at Music Industry News Network. Billboard has added two new charts, based on airplay from Christian radio stations, to its weekly menu on billboard.com. The new charts – Hot Christian Singles & Tracks and Hot Christian [...]
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Source: DelawareOnlineBlue laws require the closing of businesses (or certain types of businesses) on Sundays, this formula is not working for all faiths and is under discussion in Delaware. The nation’s blue laws have long required people of non-Christian faiths to adjust their lives to accommodate Sunday observances and laws. In the 1880s, Wilmington baker [...]
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Source: JapanTimesMore commentary on the What Would Jesus Drive Campaign and its backlash as observed from an international point of view. Sooner or later, there had to be a backlash against the largely American phenomenon of preempting political debate by injecting “Jesus” into whatever social or political argument happened to dominate the hour. The fad [...]
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Source: USAToday.comMore on Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion” Any piece of pop culture that touches on serious religious themes inspires its share of controversy, but the noisy assaults on Mel Gibson’s unfinished film The Passion, which describes the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus Christ, seem unfair and painfully premature. Indignant denunciations of [...]
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Source: WBBM780.comThe use of the word “Jesus” is taking an Edgewater neighborhood family into federal court today… They are longtime Chicago residents. Mildred Tong says she and her husband Rob are not the type to file lawsuits. But today they say they will file a civil rights suit in federal court against the Chicago Park [...]
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Source: SunSpot.netMontgomery County officials prohibit distribution of religious fliers to pupils, but the Christian group sues… ROCKVILLE – The one-page flier seems fairly routine, with its towheaded cartoon character cheerily inviting elementary school kids to join the after-school Good News Club. It was the finer print, though, the part that described the time that would [...]
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Source: The Tennessean..once a top Christian music artist who three years ago was convicted of fraudulently obtaining painkillers… Now in recovery from addiction, Michael English back in studio. One day as Michael English was recovering from his addiction to painkillers, a woman came into his hospital room and started telling him what he needed to [...]
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Source: The Guardian, UKDr Howe has already used genetic techniques to study Chaucer, who died before the invention of printing… Genetic fingerprinting might soon clear up an ancient Christian mystery – the origins of medieval parchments and even the Canterbury Gospels, thought to have arrived in Britain in 579AD. Cambridge scientists plan to study DNA [...]
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Source: BP NewsCanadian conservatives are fighting the legislation that would place Canada among countries that allow same-sex “marriage” OTTAWA, Canada (BP)–Same-sex “marriage” in Canada moved one step closer to reality July 17 when the federal government unveiled draft legislation that would give homosexuals an unprecedented right. The Canadian government sent the Supreme Court legislation stating [...]
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Source BP News.comChristendom mourns the passing of another giant, Bill Bright. ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–William R. “Bill” Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, the world’s largest Christian ministry, died July 19 from complications related to pulmonary fibrosis. He was 81. Fueled by his passion to present the love and claims of Jesus Christ to “every [...]
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Souce: Arizona Daily SunAs America is developing into “One Nation Under [Many gods]“, some Christians are fighting back through the legal system. PHOENIX — A national Christian legal organization may intercede to try to keep the Ten Commandments in a state-owned park. Jordan Lorence, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, said Thursday there are [...]
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Source: TCPalm.comSalvador is an excellent band and this is a wonderful idea. HOUSTON — For a fourth-generation Texan with roots in Mexico, the pull to add a Latin sound and dash of Spanish to a Christian contemporary mix may almost be divine. As Nicolas Gonzales figures, it’s also a universal impulse that has called his [...]
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Source: Contra Costa Times While some Christians support the idea of using yoga as a means to glory God by the protection and preservation of the physical body, others are not so keen to “sanctifying” this ancient form of meditation based on pagan worship. Marylyn Mandeville, who has been teaching yoga at Parkwood Baptist for [...]
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Something that I posted on my personal weblog that I thought I would share here also…. I really don’t know what the kind of vehicle Jesus Christ would drive, but these folks seem to know…What Would Jesus Drive? Now, these folks are not happy about the WWJD folk’s decision on the vehicular choice of the [...]
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Source: BP NewsCynthia Clawson proclaims in a statement to Baptist Press, “Let me stand beside the oppressed, broken, disenfranchised and the outcast because that’s where I think Jesus lives.” NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Clawson, for years known as one of gospel music’s most noted vocalists, is scheduled to sing at an anniversary gala for [...]
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Source: Beliefnet.comAlabama Gov. Bob Riley using Bible principles to determine who carries the heaviest tax burden, the rich or the poor. First there was “What Would Jesus Do?” Then there was “What Would Jesus Drive?” Now Christians in Alabama are asking, “What (or Who) Would Jesus Tax?” Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a conservative Republican and [...]
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Source: KATV.comNews concerning the Thomas McLaughlin case against the Jacksonville Junior High School in Jacksonville, AR. Jacksonville – The Pulaski County Special School District issued a formal apology to a gay Jacksonville student who claimed discrimination. The incident happened last year at Jacksonville Junior High School. According to the ACLU, the school district has agreed [...]
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Source: NewsDay.comThe Uniting Church votes this decision prior to Anglican Church making its choice… SYDNEY, Australia — The leaders of an Australian Christian church voted Thursday to allow homosexuals to become priests, drawing protest from within the congregation. Members of the Uniting Church opposed to the change warned it could trigger a mass exodus of [...]
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Source: MSNBC.comIn a stunning appeal for forgiveness, Zimbabwe’s Christian churches apologized Thursday for not doing enough to stop political violence, hunger and the economic collapse of the nation… The Zimbabwe Council of Churches, which represents all Christian denominations in the heavily Christian country, said it had watched passively as poverty worsened, leaving children begging on [...]
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Source: ABC Online, AustraliaNews from Australia concerning homosexuals in the ministry. The chairman of the Uniting church’s Evangelical Members in New South Wales says the controversy over recognising homosexual ministers has the potential to devastate daily church life. Church delegates in Melbourne have voted in favour of allowing homosexuals to be ordained. Coffs Harbour minister [...]
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