Over 100,000 Britons have downloaded a ‘Certifcate of Debaptism’ from the National Secular Society (NSS) in the UK to publicly demonstrate their separation from Christianity. The majority were baptized into the Church of England as infants and now as adults have decided to reject the church. According to the article, similar movements are spreading to [...]

(-Picture by Getty Images via Daylife) Former Prime Minister Tony Blair recently spoke out about his faith and his concerns that Christianity is being marginalized in the increasingly secular UK. He is proposing that it is time for Christians to speak out in support of their faith. He admits that as Prime Minister he was [...]

<<Link to report for 2009>> According to the report, nearly every denomination of the top 25 in America and Canada either declined or recorded no change in membership during the last year. Only 4 saw increases and 2 were Pentecostal denominations:  Assemblies of God and Church of God of Cleveland, Tennessee. The other 2 were [...]

(-Charles Darwin via last.fm) With the coming of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the debate over science and religion has come to the forefront bringing dozens of articles with it about how faith and evolution are either compatible or mutually exclusive. The best that I have found on the issue was written by [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) According to Muslim tradition, the Koran should always be placed upon the top shelf over all other common books. This is causing some controversy in the UK where Muslims are demanding that libraries follow that tradition. Some librarians have resolved the issue by placing all religious book on the top shelf. However, [...]

(-Page in a 13th Century Quran via Wikipedia) KABUL: Two men have spent over a year in jail and face death over printing a Quran in an indigenous Afghan language. It all started out innocently enough. The translation was originally left at a major Kabul mosque in September 2007 with a note giving permission to [...]

Reuters: A Syriac Bible manuscript was found by Turkish Cypriot police in a raid on suspected antiquity smugglers. The police in a court hearing characterized the Bible as being about 2,000 years old. However, Bible scholars are certain that the manuscript in question is much later. Peter Williams, Warden of Tyndale House, University of Cambridge [...]

(-View time 41 seconds) This is the Pro-Life commercial NBC refused to show during the Super Bowl—Powerful!            *Top

(-Presidential Picture by BL1961 via Flickr) After 8 years a new era is dawning today in America. We come together to celebrate the passing of the torch to a new president regardless of who we voted for–it is an historic day on so many different levels.  <<Continue-read the rest>>          *Top      Related articles by Zemanta Obama [...]

 Here is a good response by J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma, to the Newsweek article: “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage.” Newsweek writer Lisa Miller contends against 2,000 years of Christian scholarship by suggesting that Jesus would have been OK with Matthew marrying Mark and Luke marrying John. Grady deputes Miller’s contentions and lists [...]