Experts Predict ISIS Will Target Western Church in Next Attack (AOL) Two Opposing Views of the Islamist Threat (Daniel Pipes) Christian Convert Says There Is No Basis to Claim Muhammad Is a Prophet (The Christian Post) Fearless Faith in a Time of Forgetting (Christianity Today) How the Catholic Church Documented Mother Teresa’s Miracles (NPR) 10 …
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CofE Parishes Consider First Step in Break Away Over Sexuality (The Telegraph) Christians as “Target Practice” (Front Page Magazine) Evangelicals and Race—A New Chapter (Christianity Today) Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway (The New York Times) Prominent Pakistani Christian Lawyer Has Fled The Country With His Family Following Numerous Death Threats (ANS) …
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Suicide Bomber Tries to Attack Church in Indonesia (TIME) Indonesian Catholic Congregation Stops ISIS Member Attempting to Murder Priest (The Jakarta Post) Nepal Arrests American for Preaching Christianity (Breitbart) Oldest Living Man, at 145, Says He’s Ready To Die, Been Preparing for It Since He Was 122 (New Zealand Herald) Gospel Applies to Race, Politics, …
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Faith-based Volunteers Help Search for Quake Victims (RNS) Ben-Hur’s Watered-Down Christianity (The Wall Street Journal) What You Should Know About the American Solidarity Party Platform (The Gospel Coalition) How Christians Speak to Hostile Culture about Sex without Being Labeled Bigots (The Christian Post) In Praise of Low-Budget, Non-Professional Music Ministries (9 Marks) The Lie of …
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How Far Does Road to Equality Stretch for Egypt’s Christians? (Al-Ahram) Pakistan: Asia Bibi Supreme Court Appeal Date Set (ANS) Aleppo Horror: Be Careful Whose Side You’re On (Lapido Media) Christian Leaders—Nigeria Fatally Becoming an Islamic State (All Africa) Should Christian Charities Take Atheist’s Money? (Christian Today) University of Mississippi Bans Confederate ‘Anthem’ Dixie (The …
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When Paul engaged the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers on Mars Hill in Acts 17, he quoted from their own writers (notably Aratus) and mentioned their idols (particularly, one to an “unknown god”) to build a bridge for communication. Clement of Alexandria did much the same thing when he began his early work, Hortatory Discourse to …
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