Worship service attendance is up in New York City, but down among young adult Jews, according to recent studies. On the other hand, fewer Spanish-speaking teens are attending Catholic mass, but more are showing up at Evangelical churches. A recent Barna study shows not only increased New York City church attendance, but growing numbers of…

So, a crazed gunman opens fire and you’re caught in the middle. How can you survive? Heroes come in all sorts of packages. And they wield all sorts of defensive weapons. Such as guns and Jesus. Sometimes both at the same time. When a disturbed young man marched into a Georgia grade school with an…

Canadian TV commentator Rex Murphy is tired of Christians turning the other cheek. “There is a radical inconsistency to the treatment afforded to Christian believers and that of most other religious groups,” he writes in the Canadian daily newspaper the National Post. “It would be rather nice if so many people, the Christians of the…

What is the Christian missionary responsibility if life is discovered on other planets?  Does the Great Commission call followers of Jesus to evangelize Alpha Centauri? After all, John 3:16 says that God “so loved the world …” — not the worlds. Or moons. In a speech titled “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?” German academic Christian Weidemann recently told attendees at a…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners
Close Ad