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Here's more bad news for those who think bad times prompt people toward religious observance. Now, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, in a study of numerous polls looking at church attendance, finds: … While the Dow Jones Industrial Average has shed over half its value since October 2007, there has been no…

By Rachel Zoll, Associated Press Metropolitan Baptist Church was bursting out of its home. From a group of freed slaves in Civil War-era Washington, Metropolitan Baptist had grown into a modern-day megachurch and community service powerhouse. In 2006, construction began on the congregation's dream complex in Largo, Md. — a $30 million campus with a…

Recent Articles August 6, 2009 – Los Angeles Times Attack on Christians a further crisis for P akistan Reporting from Gojra, Pakistan — Ethel Khurshid Gil gingerly held out the charred Bible she pulled from the rubble of her home, using a swatch of cellophane to keep the scorched pages from scattering in the hot…

It Was All God – Pride or Humility? – By Henry E. Neufeld The gentleman came to me with a sheaf of papers after a meeting at which I was speaking. “I’d like you to read this,” he said, holding them out to me. Now this was before I had started publishing, not that I…

"Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life."- Ralph Waldo Emerson, July 15, 1838, Cambridge in his Download Divinity School Address . Emerson, though out of the mainstream of evangelical thinking, offers some critiques of his contemporary church and preaching that may be instructive…

By Mark Memmott No more free Wi-Fi at the local beanery? You might want to switch to decaf before you read this story in today's Wall Street Journal: Amid the economic downturn, there are fewer places in New York to plug in computers. As idle workers fill coffee-shop tables — nursing a single cup, if…

  I am confident, after some research that this is in the public domain. Paul Myer also researched the question and published it. The Story of That Something Written By Dr. B.J. Palmer, D.C., PhC.or possibly by W.W. Woodbridge     Then Randolph turned to me.    "Man, write that story you’ve told us.  Write it so…

America experienced a crisis this morning at about 9:00 A.M. EST when Twitter and Facebook went "down." Have we become so dependent of this means of communication that we experienced deep anxiety or did we just go with the flow? Was anyone else desperately searching Google, TechCrunch, or any source available for news? Did anyone…

Study: Your Brain Thinks Money Is A Drug by David Kestenbaum If you've ever thought of money as a drug, you may be more right than you know. New research shows that counting money — just handling the bills — can make things less painful. "It is surprising," says Kathleen Vohs, a professor of marketing…

Horse tramples car on Israeli highway An Israeli horse took to the highway and trampled an oncoming car in an encounter captured on video by a group of tourists in northern Israel. Full story via www.msnbc.msn.com Reminds me of a scripture: "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name…