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Editor’s Note: While many church members, pastors, and other leaders within mainline churches are personally opposed to abortion, the mainline church as a whole has a sad record of voicing concern for the poor, powerless and voiceless outside the womb while turning a willfully blind eye towards the violence of abortion and supporting it as [...]

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On April 25th, 2008 the World Council of Churches in which the United Church of Christ and other mainline denominations are members called for the immediate release of results from Zimbabwe’s recent elections as a Chinese freighter attempted to unload a deadly cargo to perpetuate the dictator Mugabe’s oppressive regime.
But the outrage from the World [...]

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Editor’s Note: Gerry Charlotte Phelps has a unique story. A radical leftist activist who committed armed robbery in an attempt to fund her cause, she has become known as a radical Christian. As a United Methodist Minister, she not only helped revitalize stagnant mainline churches, she started two successful charities with outstanding success rates. What [...]

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When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was [...]

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The President of the United States as this is written is George W. Bush. A mainline Christian with a Methodist background who states repeatedly that “Islam is a religion of peace” and that “we all worship the same God”, he well represents the mainline’s ignorance of the issues revolving around Islam.
This represents no special discrimination [...]

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The New York Times recently published this article: Megachurches Add Local Economy to Their Mission. It documents an interesting trend. Megachurches are commonly accused of teaching a “health and prosperity” gospel just to gather a crowd and, certainly, some do.
But a number of megachurches are taking steps to help improve their local economy through development [...]

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Bella: True Love Goes Beyond Romance is an amazing movie with a profound message on several levels. First it attempts to represent Latinos in a positive light. Most U.S. television portrays Latinos as gangsters or promiscuous “Latin Lovers”. Currently “Illegal Immigration” is a hot topic and Latinos are considered “illegals” until proven otherwise. Every [...]

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For years, the mainline renewal groups have found themselves in one battle after another reacting to the latest problems emanating from their respective denominational headquarters. Like shell shocked troops, they have often found themselves war weary with no “V Day” in sight. Pastors and church members who were tired of the endless cycle of [...]

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Product Details
The Great Divide: The failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press (July 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1928653197
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches

Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt brings a variety of qualifications to the task of comparing and contrasting the historical impact of Christianity and Islam. [...]

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recently stated that they were “worried about the possible ill-effects of the spread of creationist ideas within our education systems and about the consequences for our democracies. If we are not careful, creationism could become a threat to human rights which are a key concern of the [...]

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