2009 Year In Review

Hope and Change and Something for Everyone

By: Warren Cole Smith

Back in January, President-elect Barack Obama invited the Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, those on both sides of the political spectrum took notice. Conservative evangelicals – most of whom did not vote for Obama – didn’t criticize him so much as they did Warren, for accepting the invitation. Outrage from the homosexual-activist community – most of whom did vote for ...
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Anglican Church in North America Rising From Ashes of Episcopal Church

By: Warren Cole Smith

According to numbers released in December by the Episcopal Church, the membership in that denomination dropped by three percent in 2008. Three percent doesn’t sound like much, but I am a bit of a demographics junkie, and I did a good bit of research into church membership data as part of my book “A Lover’s Quarrel With The Evangelical Church,” in which I examined church growth numbers closely. ...
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• Reviving The Ivies
• Like Royalty
• Count Me A Conscientious Objector in the Christmas Wars
• Not Blue, Likes Jazz
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• Christian Leaders Sign "Manhattan Declaration"
• The King's College Receives Regional Accreditation
• Conservative Catholics Urged To Boycott Liberal Catholic Group
• Innovative Evangelist Conference Holds Meetings In Pacific Northwest
• Making Politics Personal
• "Singing Luther Together" at the Berlin Wall
• Bringing Beauty To Brokenness
• Billy Graham Turns 91

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