Is Belief in God Hurting America?

Is Belief in God Hurting America?

By David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. Posted November 25, 2009
From Dostoyevsky to right-wing commentator Ann Coulter we are warned of the perils of godlessness. “If there is no God,” Dostoyevsky wrote, “everything is permitted.” Coulter routinely attributes our nation’s most intractable troubles to the moral vacuum of atheism.
But a [...]

The Gospel of Debt: Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

Source: The Atlantic
The Gospel of Debt: Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
by Hanna Rosin
“America’s mainstream religious denominations used to teach the faithful that they would be rewarded in the afterlife. But over the past generation, a different strain of Christian faith has proliferated—one that promises to make believers rich in the here and now. Known as [...]

Carrie Prejean’ New Book, Sex Tape, and American Christianity

Folks, I’m finally going to write my own book so I can tell the true story and the truth about myself make some money. Carrie Prejean, the now famously-and-shamelessly-identified Christian model, now just released a new book, unapologetically entitled still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks. This sort of nonsense [...]

The Bible and the American Future

 

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Dominic Crossan, Walter Brueggeman,
and Ben Witherington will keynote at this historic
National Theological Conference
October 18-20, 2009
 

On October 18-20, 2009, a one-of-a-kind, historic national theological conference will take place, where twelve well-known, world class
scholars from a variety of religious traditions will discuss
The Bible and the American Future
Are you looking for something new [...]

God at War, Guns in Churches: Pastor asks members to bring guns to church

Pastor asks members to bring guns to church
Says it’s a good way for his Ky. flock to celebrate Independence Day
I thought this  (nonsense?) was happening  only in Texas.  All I want to say about the American -Christian Patriotic idolatry is this: God deliver us from American Christianity and pastor like Ken Pagano.

Source : Associated Press
Ken Pagano, pastor of New [...]

Mark Noll’s new book, The Shape of World Christianity

Mark A. Noll, America’s Dean of church History and perhaps our foremost church historian, just released a new book, “The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith” published by Intervarsity Press (Thanks to Adrian Wright for the review copy). What Noll attempts to do here is to set the American church [...]

Gregory Boyd Responds: The Demise of American Christianity

In a recent article, Gregory Boyd discusses the problem of a “declined American Christianity,” (NOPE!) rather he entitles the article “Don’t Weep for The Demise of American Christianity.” What a forceful thesis! Boyd concludes the article with this powerful, thought-provoking statement “Let the civic religion die. And if the culture crumbles, it crumbles. Our task is to live in a way that gives people hope.” [...]

Is Christianity Dying in America? or Has It Already Died?

Albert Mohler wrote an interesting piece : The End of Christian America.

Christianity and America

According to Barna Group’s most recent research Christianity is no longer the “default” faith in America.

A new nationwide survey by The Barna Group, however, indicates that people’s views have changed. The study discovered that half of all adults now contend that Christianity is just one of many options that Americans choose from and that a [...]