Citations with the tag: CHRISTIANITY -- United States
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- The decline of a great nation.
ROBISON, JAMES // Ellis County Press; 12/13/2012, Vol. 21 Issue 36, p4A continuation of an article published in previous issue about the weakening of the Christian faith in the U.S. is presented.
- CONTRACT, COVENANT, AND THE BEGINNING OF "THE AMERICAN CENTURY"
McInerny, Ralph // First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life; Nov2000, Issue 107, p73Discusses the fact and idea behind 'Christian America' and the beginning of Enlightenment in the United States. Constituting idea of the American experiment; Biblical idea of covenant embraced by earlier Americans; Conflict between contract and covenant with enlightenment on the contract side...
- Re-neighboring our cities.
Morgan, Timothy C. // Christianity Today; 1/8/96, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p15Editorial. Offers Timothy C. Morgan's views of Christainity in the United States. Familiar facts; Urban frontier; Internal renaissance.
- Can't buy me ministry.
Long, Jim // Christianity Today; 5/20/96, Vol. 40 Issue 6, p20Focuses on the Christian movement in the United States. Changes in the characteristics of the movement since its inception in the 1960s; Changes in the Christian music industry; Blurring of the division between ministry and business.
- News briefs.
Long, Jim // Christianity Today; 5/20/96, Vol. 40 Issue 6, p75Reports on developments concerning Christians in the United States as of May 20, 1996. Includes the closing of the office of Moorings, a Christian division of Ballantine Publishing, in Nashville, Tennessee; Selection of Robert A. Schuller as head of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries; Suicide of...
- Why I don't go to a megachurch.
Yancey, Philip // Christianity Today; 5/20/96, Vol. 40 Issue 6, p80Presents the author's views on the increasing popularity of large churches in the United States. Author's preference for small places of prayer; Advantages of small over large communities; Diversity within the Christian church; Description of the author's family; Societies' tendency to devise...
- The 'Secularization' Question and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
Hollinger, David A. // Church History; Mar2001, Vol. 70 Issue 1, p132Focuses on the secularization question and the United States (U.S.) in the twentieth century. Christianity in the U.S.; Implications of the impeachment case of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and the intimidation of the medical profession by Christian terrorists; History of Christianity in...
- A disconcerting thing.
Updike, John // America; 10/4/1997, Vol. 177 Issue 9, p8Presents the author's opinion about receiving the Campion Award. Discussion about the martyrdom of St. Edmund Campion; Author's opinion about being a Christian in America; Views about being a Christian writer; Description of the fictions written by the author.
- Lupe, Joey, Bobby's mom--all in Corpus Christi.
O'Leary, Jim // National Catholic Reporter; 4/22/94, Vol. 30 Issue 25, p14Narrates the story of five people as examples of Christian ideology in everyday life. Lupe; Joey; Tom; Charlie; Bobby.
- Are Christians fanatics?
Meyer, Kenneth M. // Christianity Today; 5/17/93, Vol. 37 Issue 6, p21Editorial. States that the rush is on to link the religious lunatics of our time--namely, cult-leader David Koresh and anti-abortion extremist Michael Griffin--with mainstream Christianity in America. Comments from columnist Charles Krauthammer of `Time' magazine; Additional observations.
- Briefly noted.
Meyer, Kenneth M. // Christianity Today; 5/17/93, Vol. 37 Issue 6, p87Presents an overview of current events of interest to or related to Christians. Why the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has denounced the use of a textbook published by Bob Jones University Press; Developments at Knox Theological Seminary; Actions taken by the Evangelical...
- Orestes Brownson and the Truth About America.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life; Dec2002, Issue 128, p23Focuses on the correlation between democratic politics and Christianity in the U.S. Deconstruction of Lockeanism; Factors influencing decision-making of political thinkers; Rejection of Hobbesian doctrine on pragmatism.
- News briefs.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // Christianity Today; 2/6/95, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p45Presents news and developments in Christian religion-related events. Includes the American Medical Association's approval of a policy removing aversion therapy; Holding of a spiritual awakening meeting in Orlando, Florida; Poll on the belief of Americans on Judgement Day; Dismissal of...
- News briefs.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // Christianity Today; 9/11/95, Vol. 39 Issue 10, p59Presents news items concerning Christianity in the United States for the week of September 11, 1995. Includes the declaration of judge Michael Hogan of the unconstitutionality of the country's assisted suicide law; Introduction of the ChristianNet radio network; Election of Jeffrey E. Farmer as...
- News briefs.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // Christianity Today; 4/29/96, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p59Presents news and updates on issues about Christianity in the United States as of April 1996. Includes the closing of the Last Days Ministries (LDM); Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that Washington State's doctor-assisted suicide ban is unlawful; Reaffirmation of the Evangelical Free...
- News briefs.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // Christianity Today; 8/15/94, Vol. 38 Issue 9, p51Cites news and events of interest to Christians. Includes selection of Kenneth Hemphill as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ballantine Publishing Group's creation of the imprint Moorings; Death of `Pentecostal Evangel' editor Richard G. Champion.
- News briefs.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // Christianity Today; 10/3/94, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p69Presents developments concerning Christianity in the United States. Includes Christian weightlifter Paul Anderson's death on August 15, 1994; Hennepin County, Minnesota officials' revision of an employee cultural diversity training program; Donald William Munro Jr.'s appointment as executive...
- News briefs.
Lawler, Peter Augustine // Christianity Today; 10/2/95, Vol. 39 Issue 11, p111Reports on developments in the Christian community. How television talk show pioneer Phil Donahue was dropped by stations in New York and San Francisco; Passage of resolution in the General Council of the Assemblies of God meeting calling for full integration of Blacks; Revival of rumors that...
- African missionaries to U.S.
R.N.S. // Christian Century; 08/13/97, Vol. 114 Issue 23, p718Reports on activities of Christian missionaries from Africa. Sending of missionaries to the United States and other countries to preach the Christian message; Loss of zeal of the church in America; Common characteristics of African churches.
- The turn inward.
Anderson, Leith // Leadership -- A Practical Journal for Church Leaders; Fall95, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p98Focuses on trends in the American Christian church. American trend towards isolationism; Isolationism as a political foreign policy of the United States; Increase in internationalism in the US after World War II; Change in the national culture in the 1980s.
- WISDOM OVER WIT.
Bischel, Kirby // American Conservative; 3/26/2007, Vol. 6 Issue 6, p2No abstract available.
- Christianity in America.
Bischel, Kirby // Futurist; Jul/Aug95, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p55Reports on the stability of church attendance in the United States. Measures of the strength of Christianity that suggest a decline in faith; Details of survey conducted by the Barna Research Group of church-going adults; Prospects for vitality of the Christian faith.
- US churches toil harder for unity in pews.
Lampman, Jane // Christian Science Monitor; 6/23/2000, Vol. 92 Issue 149, p1Reports on the increasing separatism within particular Christian denominations in the United States over issues such as homosexuality.
- Myths We Tell Ourselves.
LaRue, Jr., John C. // Your Church; May/Jun2001, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p88Reports the statistics of Christianity in the U.S. Decrease in the church attendance; Constant growth of churches; Emergence of evangelists and born again religion.
- What Do We Believe?
LaRue Jr., John C. // Your Church; Jul/Aug2001, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p72Reports the status of the church in the U.S. Decline of church attendance; Influence of Christianity on the quality of life; Conversion of non-Christians.
- Devout Americans shake their heads while they continue to keep the faith.
Judge, Mark Gauvreau // Insight on the News; 3/31/97, Vol. 13 Issue 12, p16Discusses Christianity's problems about disintegration of members as they moved to embrace liberal theology and social ethics in the United States. Liberalization on celibacy, homosexuality and ordination of women for churches' survival; Insistence of United Methodist Women to use unisex...
- How small groups are transforming our lives.
Wuthnow, Robert // Christianity Today; 2/7/94, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p20Reveals how the small study group phenomenon is dramatically changing communities and churches--for better and for worse. The author's three-year national research project on small groups and spirituality; Number of Americans who belong to a small study group, two-thirds of which are connected...
- The great small-group takeover.
Bird, Warren // Christianity Today; 2/7/94, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p25Looks at the increase in the growth of the small study group movement in churches of the United States. Some findings of the Gallup study on small groups; Whether the movement is an extension of the Sunday school or its eventual successor; History of the movement; Definitions; Keeping groups on...
- African bishop to homosexual activist: `Repent! Repent!'.
Murchison, William // Human Events; 09/04/98, Vol. 54 Issue 34, p9Focuses on organized Christianity in the United States, highlighting the implications of the concluded Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops. Information on the issue of sexuality which debated on at the conference; How various Anglican bishops argued for the normalization of homosexuality as...
- God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School.
Peshkin, Alan // Educational Leadership; Dec85/Jan86, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p36Focuses on character development for students at the Bethany Baptist Academy in the U.S. Norms of Christian behavior; Teachings on religion; Moral beliefs and values.
- Anti-Christian America?
Littell, Franklin H. // First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life; Jan1996, Issue 59, p2Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "A Jew in Anti-Christian America," by Midge Decter in the October 1995 issue.
- Anti-Christian America?
Mittleman, Alan // First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life; Jan1996, Issue 59, p3Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "A Jew in Anti-Christian America," by Midge Decter in the October 1995 issue.
- Anti-Christian America?
Decter, Midge // First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life; Jan1996, Issue 59, p3Presents a response by Midge Decter to letters to the editor about her article "A Jew in Anti-Christian America," in the October 1995 issue.
- Christian videos carve bigger market niche.
Rabey, Steve // Christianity Today; 9/11/95, Vol. 39 Issue 10, p69Reports on the increasing market demand for Christian video tapes in the United States according to the participants of the International Christian Visual Media meeting in Denver, Colorado on July 1995. Market segments with the highest audience potential; Promotions for Christian-themed video...
- Anti-faith Bias.
Carlson-Thies, Stanley // Christianity Today; Mar2004, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p14Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "The Twelfth of Never," which appeared in the January 2004 issue of "Christianity Today," dealing with the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives of the Bush administration.
- Listening to America's ethnic churches.
Carlson-Thies, Stanley // Christianity Today; 3/3/89, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p25Introduction to a series of articles on the state of ethnic churches in America.
- Texas GOP Platform Aims At 'Myth' Of Church-State Separation.
Carlson-Thies, Stanley // Church & State; Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 55 Issue 7, p161Reports the approval of a Republican state party platform in Texas on the declaration of the U.S. as a 'Christian nation.' Rejection of the myth of separation of church and state; Call for official prayer in public schools, government display of the Ten Commandments, withdrawal from the United...
- The tide of Easter.
Buchanan, John M. // Christian Century; 3/27/2002, Vol. 119 Issue 7, p3Introduces articles about the Muslim countries of Central Asia that border Afghanistan, and Christianity in the corporate sector of the U.S.
- Would Jesus Buy an Automatic Assault Weapon?
Negy, Charles // Tennessee Tribune; 2/7/2013, Vol. 24 Issue 6, p12AThe article examines the disconnection between the faith of Christian in the U.S. in Jesus and their personal behavior.
- Is America a Christian Nation?
Hatfield Sr., Danny G. // Ellis County Press; 5/ 5/2011, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p4The article focuses on the Christian faith of Americans and denominational church structure in the U.S.
- Women of the Christian Right.
Kadetsky, Elizabeth // Glamour; Feb95, Vol. 93 Issue 2, p230Focuses on Christian Right women in the United States. Advantages of Christian activism over feminism; Ways of reconciling modern life with ancient scripture; Promise of sensitive and committed men; Issue of premarital sex; Social activism; Personal voice in the non-Christian community;...
- IS MORMONISM CHRISTIAN?
Neuhaus, Richard John // First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life; Mar2000, Issue 101, p97Examines whether Mormonism in the United States is a form of Christianity. Mormon beliefs about the family; Welfare system; Figures of Mormon growth; Mormon teaching; Place of Mormonism in the history of Christian history.
- Of Many Things.
Reese, Thomas // America; 12/18/99, Vol. 181 Issue 20, p2Discusses the New Year's Eve celebration in the United States in light of Christian views. Discussion on preaching the Gospel and celebrate Christ in a way that make sense to 21st-century men and women.
- The Creative Role of Controversy within the Church.
Willoughby, Robert E. // Humanist; Sep/Oct99, Vol. 59 Issue 5, p46Discusses the value of controversy in Christian churches. Criticism of churches in the United States; History of controversy in churches.
- Letters.
Willoughby, Robert E. // Christian Century; 06/21/2000, Vol. 117 Issue 19, p698Presents letters from people in the United States which talked about civil disobedience and homosexuality in Christian belief. Defense on the civil disobedience of some members of the United Methodist Church; Views on the rights of gays and lesbians in church ministry; Views on the Century's...
- Presbyterians respond to controversial speech.
Willoughby, Robert E. // Christian Century; 11/15/2000, Vol. 117 Issue 32, p1181Focuses on a response issued by the Presbyterian Church in the United States to controversial comments made by minister Dirk Ficca suggesting that Christianity may not be the only true religion. Sentiment aired by factions within the church; Contents of a letter sent by the executive committee...
- Teens and the Devil Aren't A Match Made in Heaven.
Dolliver, Mark // Adweek Eastern Edition; 11/6/2000, Vol. 41 Issue 45, p45Relates the results of surveys on the religious beliefs of Christian teenagers in the United States. Percentage of respondents who believe that the devil is not a living being but a symbol of evil; Accuracy of the Bible; Belief that most adult Christians are hypocrites.
- Empire and Church: Pitfalls and Priorities for the Presbyterian Church in a time of Globalization.
Ufford-Chase, Rick // Network News; Fall2003, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p8Two weeks ago, the author had the opportunity to visit with the members of a newly formed Presbytery in the coffee growing region of the volcanic mountain chain, called the Boca Costa, in southwestern Guatemala. He was accompanying a delegation from Immanuel Presbyterian Church in McLean,...
- CHURCH, STATE, AND EDUCATION IN THE YOUNG AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
Howe, Daniel Walker // Journal of the Early Republic; Spring2002, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p1Focuses on the relationship between state-sponsored secular education and American republicanism. Impact of Christianity on American way of living; Passivity of political leaders of the American Enlightenment; Details on the awakening of the educational movement.
- Mandatum threatens covenant of respect.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford // National Catholic Reporter; 4/27/2001, Vol. 37 Issue 26, p17Comments on the effort of Radical Orthodoxy group to discredit the movement of liberalism and modernity as the cause of the disintegration of faith in the U.S. Assumption on interminable violence and pluralism; Importance of the understanding of scripture and church tradition; Aspects of...
