Kenneth Copeland Takes Senate Probe Battle to Public

ChristianPost:
Pentecostal preacher Kenneth Copeland is now looking to gain public support as he continues to question and protest a senator’s investigation into the spending of six “prosperity gospel” ministries, including his. This week, his ministry launched a Web site to address concerns about the inquiry.

Man dressed as Darth Vader spared jail for attack on founder of Jedi church

O’ My! I’m so thankful for the God given gift of laughter. The Lord has given me a strange sense of humor, but it helps keeps me sane in this crazy world.
From ReligionNewsBlog:
Wales: A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a [...]

The Insincerity of John Hagee

Do I believe this apology is sincere? Not for a second.  This only proves how politically motivated Hagee has become. After years of referring to the RCC as ‘the whore of Babylon’ he’s now changed his tune. Why?  Not because he had some revelation which showed him he was wrong, but because his stance [...]

The Alien is my Brother

From WND: Vatican: Space aliens might actually exist;
Fr. Jose Gabriel Funes told L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, that such extraterrestrial life “is possible, even if until now, we have no proof.”
“But certainly in such a big universe this hypothesis cannot be excluded,” he told the newspaper.
According to a report by Catholic News Agency, the interview [...]

Joel Osteen Maintains Homosexuality as Sin

Well here’s an interesting update on the Showdown at Lakewood Church story.
From The Christian Post:
Jay Bakker, a big supporter of a pro-gay group, met privately with Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church to talk about faith and sexuality issues and to ultimately gain the support of the megapastor.

Pagan prisoners allowed twigs to use as magic wands

Further proof of a world gone mad. No one could make this stuff up….
ReligionNews: Pagan prisoners allowed twigs in their cells to use as magic wands
Prison officers have been ordered to allow Pagan prisoners to take twigs into their cells to use as magic wands.
The ruling has been announced as part of a prisons [...]

Showdown at Lakewood Church

It seems Joel Osteen has declined the invitation from Soul Force to meet with them. (original post on this topic: Soulforce Marches On) The article I read today states that Jay Bakker (son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker) did receive back affirmative responses from 4 of the 6 Churches who received these invitations. [...]

Code Pink and Witchcraft

On some days, lately more days then not, I think this country has gone so far over the edge that there is no turning back.
From Foxnews: Code Pink Protesters Try Witchcraft at Anti-Marine Rallies
Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting a controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center [...]

God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says

Can you believe this nonsense?
CatholicNewsService:
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While apes evolved naturally into pre-human creatures, it was the will and desire of God that turned them into humans, an article in the Vatican newspaper said.

Israel: Sanhedrin Calls to Reject ‘Messianic’ Sects

This young Messianic believer and the controversy over her participation in the Bible quiz, has sure stirred the pot in Israel. Though in a previous post on this controversy I said it wasn’t clear what God was doing in this situation, I’m beginning to think now, it was to draw the Christian world’s attention to [...]

An Evangelical Manifesto: Clarifying the ‘Evangelical’ label?

Global, Global, Global, seems to be the key word in this document released today, along with a Political tone. The very title: An Evangelical Manifesto -  The Washington Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment, is political. I find that very odd when the reason given for why this document was deemed necessary was, and [...]

T.D. Jakes, John Hagee, and Politics

Two interesting news stories today.
One at the Christian Post, T.D. Jakes: Black Church Unfairly Portrayed, is related to the backlash Jakes sees as a consequence of Obama’s ex Pastor’s comments…
The media has painted the African-American church with a “broad, wide-ranging brush” as intolerant of other ethnic groups, divisive, and “filled with hostility,” complained Jakes in [...]

Jews for Jesus launch New Campaign in Shadow of Bible Quiz Controversy

Jews for Jesus is a wonderful organization who’s main purpose has always been to take the good news of Jesus the Messiah to the Jewish people. I have always respected them and their org. for this. Unlike the so-called Christian Zionist movement here in the US, (namely John Hagee’s CUFI: see The Threat of Christian [...]

Fair Play for False Prophets

In this commentary which appeared in the Washington Post last Friday, the author asks an interesting question.
Fair Play for False Prophets by E. J. Dionne Jr.
Do white right-wing preachers have it easier than black left-wing preachers? Is there a double standard?

An Evangelical Manifesto

This document titled ‘An Evangelical Manifesto’ due out this coming week, should send up a red flag because of those involved (Rick Warren) and those not. This Manifesto should be definitely suspect.
In a story ran today at most Christian and secular news organizations, (see The Christian Post:Evangelicals Say Faith is Now too Political)  Rick [...]

Irish Church Leaders Barred from Jerusalem’s Western Wall

From the Christian Post:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Leaders of Ireland’s main Christian churches were barred from praying at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Thursday because they refused to remove the crosses they were wearing.

National Day of Prayer: Ravi Zacharias Decides Not To Pray at All

*I’m editing this to make a personal comment. I know its being said now that Ravi Zacharias’ not praying is an act of cowardice on his part. I don’t know if that is true. My instincts tell me he surely sought God in prayer before appearing today, so we can’t know for a surety [...]

Rabbis call for Bible Quiz boycott

I’ve been watching this story play out this week wondering what would happen. It now appears a boycott has been called. Here’s the story…
In observance of Israel’s Independence Day celebration every year, one of the events is a National Bible Contest (or in Hebrew, Chidon HaTanakh). Those who make it into being one of the [...]

Date Setting: Minister uses NASA forecasting to study signals of Jesus’ return

Date setters, who ‘predict’ the second coming of our Lord, I admit, drive me nuts. In the past I’ve seen too many unwise Christians grab onto one of these dates predicted by those who ‘know with a certainty’ the year, month…and in many cases, the day, and end up damaged and dis-heartened when the [...]

Half man, half chimp - should we beware the apeman’s coming?

To be frank, though its pure speculation, I think its already been done.
From NewsForChristians:
A LEADING scientist has warned a new species of “humanzee,” created from breeding apes with humans, could become a reality unless the government acts to stop scientists experimenting.
In an interview with The Scotsman, Dr Calum MacKellar, director of research at the [...]