An interview with the founder of Mosaic Church, LA, about millennials dropping out of traditional churches. Millennials and Religion | March 13, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS.
Bishops on Ireland Marriage Referendum
In May citizens in Ireland will vote on a marriage referendum. The Roman Catholic bishops state their opposition to a change in the constitution.
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection
This article describes the new collections, several of which would include church history titles from the Reformation era to the present.
EBSCO and ATLA Announce 11 Separate Thematic Series of ATLA Historical Monographs Collection.
Evolution and Evangelicals
An author interview exploring the divide in American Evangelical beliefs about evolution and creation.
St. Patrick according to Religion News Service
This seven part quiz about St. Patrick, missionary and bishop, reviews issues of historicity.
The ‘Splainer: Who was St. Patrick, and would he drink green beer? – Religion News Service.
Selma Civil Rights March 50th Anniversary
Brief mentions of the role played by Christian leaders in supporting civil rights and opposing the violence of Bloody Sunday.
Selma Civil Rights March 50th Anniversary | March 6, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS.
Marry Younger. Southern Baptist Convention. Modern Church
Marriage, sex, and age has sparked discussion in the Southern Baptist Convention. Unquestionably, Americans are waiting longer and longer to get married with complicating factors along the way.
Southern Baptist Convention: ‘Marry Younger To Avoid Premarital Sex’.
Pope Francis’s Plans
This article assesses Francis’s popularity after two years and then lists five areas where he plans to make changes in the Roman Catholic Church.
Pope finds popularity and dissent at 2-year mark | OregonLive.com.
Iesus Deus in Christian Art
M. David Litwa’s book describes how early Christians adapted imagery from Jewish and pagan art in order to depict the deity of Jesus. You can read a summary and a review at the link below. Review of Biblical Literature.
How Islamic Scientists Read Up on Science
National Geographic recently posted an article by Book Talk editor, Simon Worrall. I was struck by this paragraph:
There is a tendency on the part of some Muslim scholars to exaggerate the accomplishments of Islamic science. And they don’t need to be exaggerated. During the golden age of Islamic science, which ended somewhere between A.D. 1100 and 1200, Muslim scientists were way ahead of their contemporaries in Christian Europe.
Although it is true that the Muslim scientists were ahead of the Christian Europeans at this point, the article might have mentioned how Muslim tribesmen learned scientific method. They read Arabic translations of scientific works, which were translated by Syriac Christians from the pagan, ancient Greeks. So ironically, Christians were responsible for those medieval Arabs knowing their scientific texts, which had been lost to the Christians in Europe (though not likely lost to the Christians in Byzantium).
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