"Big tent" is a prophetic challenge to the rancorous debates and condemnations that are the public face of religion today. The Religious Left and the Religious Right look more and more like Washington: people sit on one side of the aisle or the other; everything they say and do seems to play just to their own party members. More and more of those in the younger generations are tired of the combative attitude. They look for something different, something more positive, from Christian faith.

When we gather together for worship, we ought to come reaching up, starved for God, ready to feast together on the good news that, in the person of Jesus Christ, God has descended to us because we could never ascend to him. Feasting on God’s gospel together through prayer and preaching, sacrament and singing, provides us with the faith, hope, and love we need to be good news people in a bad news world.

A Pastor is glad that his Church in Ohio - New Beginnings Ministry is growing and the members united as neighbours come every Sunday from the nearby strip club to protest the opposition of the church to their trade...and risk to their livelihood. Meanwhile – as they come and protest they listen to the gospel and receive tracts.

This was the man God chose, who had all these wonderful qualities. Yet in a few years he had lost his contact with God, lost the anointing of the Spirit, lost his humility, lost his character, lost his kingdom and lost everything. This is the sad story of many servants of God today too, who started out well.

On 17th July 2010…in Maza, a little village in Jos North Local Government area of Plateau State, five kilometers Northeast of Jos city center, Nigeria was recently revisited by the cruel Islamist style massacre that has plagued the region in recent times.

Training and preparations for half-baked religious amalgams and practices did not originate in Claremont

I’m really enjoying N.R. Needham’s 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 1: Age of the Early Church Fathers, part of a very accessible but well-informed multi-volume survey of church history. On pp. 66-75 he outlines a fairly typical church service in the second century (A.D. 101-200), based on descriptions and instructions found in the early Church fathers. I thought it might be helpful to outline it.

A Presbyterian Church U.S.A. court rebuked a pastor Friday for performing same-sex weddings - but at the same time praised her for her "prophetic ministry" and urged the church to change its dictates to be more accepting of gay unions.

More than 70 pastors and other religious leaders affirmed President Obama's Christianity on Friday in a letter written to oppose "those who continue to insinuate that the President is Muslim, not a Christian." The statement comes on the heels of a poll last week showing that 18 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009.