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Faith In International Relief Work 2008-05-18 19:00:00 Haroon Kash from Islamic Relief tells how his faith has influenced the development and relief work he has done in some of the worlds poorest countries. Read more:Faith
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A Catholic Confirmation 2008-04-30 19:00:00 In our final Faith Column on coming of age, we look at confirmation. Typically it happens at 15 or 16 and is a chance for young Christians make their personal commitment Read more:Catholic
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Coming of age in the Bahá’í faith 2008-04-29 19:00:00 15 is the age when Bahá’ís come of age. Here, continuing our series on rites of passage Collis Tahzib tells his story
Hindu coming of age 2008-04-27 19:00:00 This week the Faith Column is devoted to Rites of Passage with a member of a different religion describing how they initiate young people. Today we look at Hindu
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Generations of Seders 2008-04-24 19:00:00 Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg concludes our series of articles on Passover with a reflection on the Jewish ritual of Seder throughout Jewish communities worldwide. Read more:Generations
The fifth son 2008-04-23 19:00:00 Rabbi Eli Pink describes his continual desire to reach out to the fifth son of Passover and introduce him or her to Jewish traditions.
Of porn, Ron Jeremy and...Jesus? 2008-06-02 08:56:43 Craig Gross, member of “xxxchurch.com,” explains his organization's goals and shines a light on its nickname, “The Number 1 Christian Porn Site.” Read more:Jesus
Of porn, Ron Jeremy and...Jesus? Part II 2008-06-04 04:55:43 In his second and final installment, Craig Gross tells the story of someone who was rescued from the porn industry by the XXXchurch.With over one million people visiting our website every year, we have seen that the issue of pornography reaches far and wide. Our organization aims to help those who consume porn and help those in the porn industry.As an outreach to the porn industry for the past six Read more:Jesus
Blessed are the peacemakers 2008-06-10 04:31:52 In the second installment of his four-part series, Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert writes on easing local conflict via organised relief projects.Farmers in the Fandriana region of Madagascar fought over water for their rice crops. They had to stand guard over their rice paddies at night in case neighbours bored holes in their dams, stealing their water. There was bitterness, violence, and, Read more:Blessed
Master, the tempest is raging 2008-06-09 06:51:55 Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert writes on his church's continuing efforts to ease the suffering in cyclone-battered Burma.Teddy Dinh, Country Director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Burma, was busy constructing a jetty for a tsunami rehabilitation project near the villiage of Piensalu when the recent cyclone pounded the Southeast Asian nation.
He and a few colleagues nar Read more:Master
United by faith 2008-06-12 04:34:15 Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert finishes his series by explaining how the ADRA has brought together volunteers from all around the world.The people that run the Adventist Development Relief Agency are every bit as diverse as the people they help—and the problems they face—worldwide.
Pansi's roots are in Malawi, where she has a house and a herd of goats. After many years spent working for Read more:United
Changing for the better 2008-06-11 06:23:14 Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert continues his four-part series by describing the progress ADRA volunteers have made in and around Somalia. Windmills, solar powered water systems and more than 10,000 cooking stoves are really changing the lives of impoverished people in Somalia. With help from the European Commission, the ADRA—short for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency—is ru Read more:Changing
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Honest to blog! It's the Mormons 2008-06-16 06:42:13 Tom Quinn, a Mormon born and raised in the LDS stronghold of Salt Lake City, provides a brief secular history of the "other" Christian religionThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon church, was formally organised in April of 1830 by Joseph Smith in a rural section of upstate New York. At that time, the congregation was small enough to meet inside a sing Read more:Mormons
Mormonism 101 2008-06-17 06:14:30 Tom Quinn continues his series on the LDS Church by discussing some of his faith's most basic-and often controversial-points of doctrine. Ever since Mitt Romney, a practising Mormon, began showing up at Republican presidential debates with his immaculately quaffed hair and robotic pseudo-personality, the general public has been paying a lot more attention to the LDS Church, a faith that until rece Read more:Mormonism
The blessed gift of organisation 2008-06-18 06:46:27 Tom Quinn, the New Statesman's token Mormon, explains the organization of the LDS Church in the third installment of this four-part seriesEvery religion seems to have its own specialty, that one aspect of worship it just seems to perform better than anyone else. Gregorian monks have their chanting, Southern Baptists have their choirs, and we Mormons have the blessed gift of organisation. Not since
A spirituality to suit the times 2008-06-26 05:17:42 Paul Harrison wraps up his four-part series by explaining the complementary relationship between Pantheism and modern science. One of the strongest attractions of Pantheism for me is that it seems perfectly attuned for our times. We are living in world where scripture-driven fundamentalists from the three Western monotheisms are threatening international security and peace. A world where human ne
Loving life as a Pantheist 2008-06-25 06:28:07 In the third installment of his four-part series, Paul Harrison explains Pantheism's "vibrant affirmation" of mankind's physical existence.One of Pantheism’s greatest attractions to me is its vibrant affirmation of our bodily life. Many of the world’s religions tend to view the main priority as the peace or eternal fate of the soul. Life in a physical body, on this physical Earth, is seen as m Read more:Loving
Meeting spiritual needs naturally 2008-06-24 05:32:10 Pantheist Paul Harrison explains how we are all capable of fulfilling our own need for deeper meaning without the help of the supernatural.Atheists are best known for slamming traditional religions – especially Western monotheisms. In a similar vein, Pantheists may be just as critical about the consequences of dogmatism, acceptance of scriptural authority, intolerance, or the focus on imaginary Read more:naturally
Adding emotion to atheism 2008-06-23 04:46:53 Paul Harrison, environmentalist and founder of the World Pantheist Movement, explains the basics of a belief system considered by some to be "sexed-up atheism." In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins calls Pantheism “sexed-up atheism.” This is a fair description. Pantheism, in essence, is reverence for Nature and the wider Universe—the Pantheist “God” is everything that exists.
In fact the
The Missionary Position 2008-06-19 08:47:22 Tom Quinn finishes his series on Mormonism with a treatise on the most visible aspect of the faith: the shirt-and-tie clad missionaries who always seem interrupt dinner, naps and important phone calls.No discussion of Mormonism, even one as aimless and amorphous as this, would be complete without mentioning the most visible—and arguably most annoying—aspect of the LDS Church: the missionaries
A chaplain in Iraq 2008-07-08 05:52:32 Reverend Father Marcus Hodges, an RAF chaplain now stationed in Cyprus, gives his take on the importance of his ministry to those who depend on him for guidance The all-pervasive fog of desert dust notwithstanding, there is a clear and powerful chaplaincy vision out here in the Iraq
i desert. Of course, a vision of ministry, whether on a home unit or away, must in some sense be the same for all w
Heaven in Hell 2008-07-07 05:49:25 Padre Paul Wright, Senior Chaplain of the London District, cites an example from the First World War to illustrate the important role army chaplains.One of the great inspirations in my ministry in the Army has been Padre Tubby Clayton, the founder of Talbot House (TocH) in the picturesque town of Poperinge, Belgium during the Great War. The town of Poperinge lies ten kilometres behind Ypres and w Read more:Heaven
Working to educate the youth 2008-07-03 05:40:56 Doug Harris, member of the Reachout Trust, explains the challenges associated with convincing youth
to leave cult groups in favour of ChristianityMy job, simply put, is to convince as many people as possible that cults and occult practices are potentially dangerous. It's obviously not your typical nine-to-five gig. Recalling my childhood daydreams of what I would do when I grew up, this certainl
The social impact of cult groups 2008-07-02 05:44:02 Allen Tate Wood argues that destructive cult groups are exerting unjust control over their members - and using loopholes in contemporary law to do it.The impact
of cult groups on society and the influence they exercise cannot and should not be underestimated. For anecdotal proof of this assertion, I refer the reader to a famous picture of former President Ronald Regan holding up a copy of the Was
Saving your family from the Manson Family 2008-07-01 04:47:46 Cult expert and exit counselor Allen Tate Wood continues his series by explaining how you can help a loved one who has embraced a destructive cult.The family of a cult member has a tough row to hoe. Coming to terms with a member of one’s family joining a cult group is a complex and difficult task. Many find themselves asking questions like “Why has my child, husband or wife joined this group? Read more:Saving
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