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Canadian television network Global TV will soon broadcast “Revealed: Hip 2B Holy”, a news documentary about evangelical Christians. Global news anchor Kevin Newman thinks that, for most Canadians, evangelicals represent a foreign sub-culture typically associated with the United States. He hopes the show will correct such misconceptions. Narrated by Global National anchor Kevin Newman, who [...]

Physician and geneticist Francis Collins rejected atheism for Christianity as a young man.  He became world-famous as leader of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium where he oversaw the Human Genome Sequencing Project. In a recent interviewe with Marshall Allan of the Las Vegas Sun, he gave this response when asked about the relationship between [...]

This morning’s inspiring and thought-provoking Easter sermon by The Rev David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, Windsor, includes this great line: With apologies to President Obama, and for that matter most politicians, the Resurrection is change you can believe in. Read the whole thing.

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada examines recent surveys of giving and volunteering conducted by Statistics Canada and finds that the data sit uneasily with the stereotype of devout Christians as divisive, intolerant, and judgmental. Here are some highlights. Evangelical Christians volunteer and give to charitable causes, both religious and non-religious, at higher rates and higher [...]

Controversial Dalit activist Udit Raj points out that widespread persecution of Christians by Hindu extremists began around 1998, when the BJP came to power. Mr Raj argues that the real reason for hatred of Christians is not conversion, but the threat that Christianity presents to Hindu social beliefs and traditions. What worries the Sangh Parivar [...]

The Rev David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, Windsor, preached this sermon for the First Sunday in Lent. Unusually for Fr Curry, it was not based on either of this morning’s Scripture readings but on Hebrews 5:8, “Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered”. This is nonetheless a most fitting [...]

Vishal Mangalwadi, a Christian who was born and raised in India, says that Barack Obama was elected president because Americans hold a belief that is rare in most other countries—human equality—and Americans believe in human equality because of their Christian heritage. Thomas Jefferson was wrong about one thing: Human equality is not “self-evident.” Inequality is [...]

So says the head of Jamaica’s National Transformation Programme, which was established in the Office of the Prime Minister to counter rising violent crime. The church, he insists, can do a better job than the education system of inculcating personal morality. DIRECTOR OF the National Transformation Programme (NTP), Reverend Merrick ‘Al’ Miller, is calling on [...]

The Rev David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, Windsor, gave this sermon for the Second Sunday After the Epiphany, based on the Gospel reading (St John 2:1-11), the story of the marriage feast at Cana where Jesus turned water into wine. Beginning from the miraculous sign of divine glory at Cana, Fr Curry delivered a [...]

John Attarian was an atheist and free-market libertarian until he wrote his doctoral thesis on Ayn Rand’s economic thought, which posits a view of human nature unable to account for the achievements of Western civilisation.  He accepted the supernatural and soon became a Christian.  Then he read a volume of the Marquis de Sade’s writings [...]

A Pakistani-born Christian minister hosted a radio show in Glasgow for six years, but was fired after an on-air religion discussion between a Muslim and a Christian.  The director of Awaz FM stated that Rev Mahboob Masih allowed the Christian speaker to make offensive remarks but failed to specify any allegedly offensive content. Rev Masih [...]

Father Richard John Neuhaus, one of the most influential Christian thinkers of our time, passed away yesterday morning at age 72. I received the benefit of that influence when I was a relatively new Christian in the early 1980s. I first encountered him in the pages of National Review, where he wrote a regular column [...]

Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East comments on the reaction of some church leaders to the current Middle East conflict. Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East (“Fair Witness”) is greatly disturbed by the escalating violence in Israel and Gaza and the tragic loss of innocent Palestinian and Israeli lives. As many [...]

National Post columnist Colby Cosh stated last July that Christians did not consider abortion murder “before the 1960s”. McGill University religious studies professor Douglas Farrow immediately pointed out his egregious error and cited early church fathers condemning abortion. Mr Cosh initially replied to Dr Farrow’s rejoinder with defiance, but when Farrow responded with yet more [...]

Columnist Chris Agbiti of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, looks at African leaders’ jubilant reaction to Barack Obama’s election victory and sees hypocrisy. If one may ask, what business do African countries, together with their stinking leaders, have in rejoicing over Obama’s victory at the U.S. poll when we know in our hearts of hearts that we [...]