Christianity News - Last Generation Network News for Saturday April 29 2017

Christianity News - Last Generation Network News for Saturday April 29 2017

Should Christians Support the Death Penalty? - Newsweek

Newsweek - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
Arkansas executed a fourth prisoner on death row last night. Three days prior to that, the state had done two back-to-back executions by lethal injections in ...

Can Christians Affirm Transhumanism?

ChristianityToday.com - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
“It seems to me that the biggest misunderstanding of Christians for transhumanism is that they think that it's just science fiction, that's it's some crazed scientist idea that is never going to happen.

4-29 From the pulpit

North Platte Telegraph - ‎5 hours ago‎
Our hope as Christians is in the Resurrection, not in immortality: it is hope in God, not hope in ourselves.” This means that we are at the complete mercy of God, and the resurrection of God's Son means that for us, hope is not dead.

What Christianity and Islam have in common

The Tennessean - ‎Apr 24, 2017‎
There are many people today who argue Islam and Christianity are locked in a civilizational war, a view that has become a rationale for a number of the Trump administration's policies.

Does Christianity always equal conservatism?

The Pacer - ‎21 hours ago‎
The stereotype of the “religious right” has been around for decades, but does it always hold true? In modern American culture, although politicians of all stripes routinely profess their faith, there seems to be a pervasive link between Christianity ...

Margaret Atwood on Christianity, 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and What ...

Sojourners - ‎Apr 25, 2017‎
“If the United States were to have a totalitarianism, what kind of totalitarianism would it be?” That's how Margaret Atwood explains the theme to her 1985 novel ...

How Zoroastrians were purged in China, like Christians in Japan's shogun era

South China Morning Post - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
The official persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan, a fictionalised account of which Silence depicts, was brutal and almost succeeded in uprooting the foreign religion from Japanese soil.

Whatever Is Pure: Cedarville Requires Professors to Apply Philippians 4:8

ChristianityToday.com - ‎Apr 26, 2017‎
In its Biblically Consistent Curriculum policy, nicknamed for the Apostle Paul's admonishment to Christians in Philippi, Cedarville has spelled out new guidelines officially barring any materials that “may be considered 'adult' in nature, that ...

Why Islamists and Fascists Persecute Christians

Canada Free Press - ‎16 minutes ago‎
A study from the Europe-based Center for Studies on New Religions recently confirmed that “Christians continue to be the most persecuted believers in the world, with over 90,000 followers of Christ being killed in the last year [2016],” which computes ...

Dispatches from Baylor: Let Women Lead

ChristianityToday.com - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
“A ploughshare is a nobler object than a razor. But if your natural talent is for barbering, wouldn't it be better to be a barber, and a good barber—and use the profits (if you like) to speed the plough?

Christians, Think Twice About Eradicating Mosquitoes to Defeat Malaria

ChristianityToday.com - ‎Apr 25, 2017‎
I was warned there would be a lot of mosquitoes when I traveled to the northern coast of Alaska to collect soil samples, but nothing could prepare me for the swarms of bugs that darkened the sky above me as I worked.

Why Christians Vex Muslims and Fascists

FrontPage Magazine - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
A study from the Europe-based Center for Studies on New Religions recently confirmed that “Christians continue to be the most persecuted believers in the world with over 90,000 followers of Christ being killed in the last year [2016],” which computes ...

How Important Is the Bible to Christianity?

Cape May County Herald - ‎Apr 25, 2017‎
If Jesus is not God in the flesh, then Christianity is a joke, and I am wasting my life (and your time reading this column).

Ask John Shore: Why so many hypocritical Christians?

Asheville Citizen-Times - ‎Apr 24, 2017‎
Question: I've noticed that you aren't one to shy away from answering questions having to do with God and/or Christianity. So I thought I might try asking: Why do you think it is that so many people who say they're Christian are OK with acting in ways ...

There Will Be No Religious Left

The American Conservative - ‎Apr 25, 2017‎
Over the last couple decades, conservative Christians have effectively branded religious activism as primarily concerned with upholding a traditional vision of sexual morality and social norms.

Look where Christianity is on FIRE!

WND.com - ‎Apr 22, 2017‎
A new study reflects a historic population shift that has been years in the making and indicates that Christianity's future lies less in America or Europe and more in sub-Saharan Africa.

'The Leftovers' Explores the Fallout of a Godless Rapture ...

ChristianityToday.com - ‎21 hours ago‎
As it enters its third season, the acclaimed drama continues to take a long, hard look at our responses to loss.

Contemplative practices can lure the 'spiritual but not religious' to Christianity, expert says

Baptist News Global - ‎Apr 21, 2017‎
They define God in individualistic ways and they almost always have negative views of organized religion - especially of Christianity. And that's the part that bugs Christians who have discovered, within their own tradition, contemplative practices ...

Vatican: Christianity is not an ideology or philosophical belief

TRUNEWS - ‎Apr 19, 2017‎
Pope Francis on Wednesday offered a reflection on Christ's Resurrection and the start of Christianity, saying it's not about us and what we do, but what the Lord has done for us.

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