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For those who wish for a little humor injected into their Thursday, check out this article from todays Daily Mail.
They’ve become de rigueur for churches around the world: the signs carrying snappy advertising slogans to attract worshippers.
Many show a surprising sense of humour, and here we present a collection of the funniest.
Enjoy!

This post is from a friend of Js new blog. Truman invokes a lot of thought. I’ve put his link at the end of this post. Please visit and give him your support.
The first time I met Greg Stier, I thought he was energetic, full of passion for teenagers, and the type [...]

This is a very interesting article that will definitely give you something to think about.
The twilight of the idols has been postponed. For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems. War and revolution, class and social justice, race and [...]

This seems to be an issue that just won’t go away. Even churches are finding themselves dealing with it.
Maybe it’s time that we start treating everyone the same and maybe it isn’t. I don’t have the answer.
Never in a “million years” did Robert Renix think he would find a Baptist church that would accept [...]

I could see myself voting for Huckabee.
No one is happier with the results of the Iowa Straw Poll than charismatic evangelical Christians, who recently declared former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “one of our own.”
Just a few weeks before the Iowa straw poll, a prominent evangelical publication identified the Republican presidential candidate whom it thought most [...]

Love this man and wish him well.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Evangelist Billy Graham was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said.
Graham, 88, was fully alert, and his doctors don’t think his condition is life-threatening, [...]

Sad story. What is wrong with people?
ARLINGTON, Texas — A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay.
Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen [...]

If you’re looking for a story that isn’t about corruption or pork here is one to warm your heart.
Sitting on a stool in the center of a TV studio stuffed with anchor desks, fake brick walls and wires hanging from the ceiling, the Rev. Peter Panagore closed his eyes and meditated.
For several minutes he [...]

These past few weeks I’ve watched four movies that deal directly with the relationship between Christian faith and politics, and all four were thoughtful, provocative, and well-crafted stories.
Jesus Camp and Hell House are documentaries. Both are political in that Christians reveal beliefs that require new law (or court rulings) in order to see them [...]

Did you know that Christianity is under attack? Did you know that any day now that malicious Congress will pass legislation that will humiliate, silence, fine, or even jail pastors, and maybe even all Christians? Did you know that this is happening already in those secular foreign places like Canada and Sweden?
I sure [...]

There’s an interesting back and forth between Bill Moyers and Victor Gold, Goldwater’s deputy press secretary back in the ‘64 campaign, and later fixture in the GOP hierarchy.
Thinking about past conversations here about what it means to be a conservative or a liberal, I think this conversation further muddies the meaning of those two labels.

In the early Cold War, churches and civic organizations, together with government officials, built a civic religion to help mobilize for the Cold War–a war without end against a shadowy enemy (the international communist conspiracy) who could be anywhere. So the Eagles put the Ten Commandments on courthouse lawns, and thousands of people petitioned [...]

This is the guy conservatives love to quote when it comes to MM.
Summer beach-reading season is just beginning, and already several books have broken out from the pack, such as Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, and Conn and Hal Iggulden’s “The Dangerous Book for Boys.”
But the biggest surprise is a blazing attack on God [...]

In an earlier posting today I said that Romney’s Mormon faith was “causing little stir among most voters.” It’s a bit more complicated than that according to USA Today/Gallup polls. In short, Romney may not have a hard time pulling in money from wealthy households and the corporate sector, but voters in general [...]

The week before last there were 45 articles and opinion pieces on religion and politics. This past week, there were 101. The Los Angeles Times (18), the Washington Post (16) led the way, with the New York Times (9) and USA Today (8) distant seconds.
Two kinds of stories drove this minor explosion in [...]

Boy, was I wrong. I commented in another posting (Red-Staters Are Breeding Like…Drunken Ferrets?) that Catholics tended to vote for Democrats, but according to a Pew Survey, that wasn’t quite the case in the 02, 04, and 06 elections. As you can see below, white Catholics, especially those who attend mass regularly, are [...]

Muslims are from Mars, Christians are from Venus
Last weeks news in national print dailies revealed that there’s no obvious blue or red state pattern to reporting on the mix of religion and politics. It looks like the papers with the larger national readerships, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington [...]

Since entering academia in the late 1980s, I’ve heard a steady drumbeat of accusations that college professors indoctrinate, or try to anyway, their students with leftist, secular propaganda.
There’s no doubt that there is a higher percentage of liberals and leftists in academia than in the US population at large, though that percentage varies a [...]

I’ve decided to start checking in on the national conversation about religion and politics—as given us in the national print dailies. Using Lexis-Nexis, I searched for articles that in some way refer to both religion and politics over the week of June 4 to the 10th (if you’re interested in my method, see note [...]

Interesting information.
The term “Evangelicalism” is a wide-reaching definitional “canopy” that covers a diverse number of Protestant groups. The term originates in the Greek word evangelion, meaning “the good news,” or, more commonly, the “gospel.” During the Reformation, Martin Luther adapted the Greek term, dubbing his breakaway movement the evangelische kirke, or “evangelical church”-a name still [...]

Christian organizers on Thursday announced plans for a “sacred gathering of men” in Washington, D.C., in October, almost 10 years to the day after the group Promise Keepers conducted one of the largest rallies in the city’s history.
Organizers say the 2007 “Stand in the Gap” (SITG) rally will differ from the 1997 gathering of the [...]

There will never be another Rev. Jerry Falwell.
My sympathy goes out his family and congregation.
If the Rev. Jerry Falwell personified the Christian right in the past, then the Rev. Frank S. Page may represent its future.From his Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., where his funeral will be held today, Falwell gave evangelicals a [...]

Donald Sensing has posed a question which I am struggling to answer.
Must soldiers forgive their enemies?
For someone who professes to follow Jesus Christ, or at least follow his teachings, the subject of forgiveness is probably one of the most vexing. Jesus taught plainly that his followers are obligated to forgive, for example, “For if [...]