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 Tough choices for BlessingsBLESSINGS Christian Marketplace, Canada’s largest
Christian bookstore chain – challenged by the high Canadian dollar
and various market forces – is poised to undergo major downsizing. |
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Analyzing the state of the Canadian churchTHE starting point for our analysis rests in data that
weekly church attendance has dropped from 70 percent of the Canadian
population in the 1950s to about 20 percent today. |
Pakistani Christians will miss BhuttoWITH the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani
Christians have lost a vital supporter of their rights, according to a
legal advocate for persecuted Christians in Pakistan. |
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Tensions still high in KenyaCHILDREN’S bodies were piled in a Nairobi morgue;
churches were burned; and police on horseback chased pedestrians through
the streets. |
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Maclean’s case
raising alarmsHUMAN RIGHTS complaints against Maclean’s magazine, for running an
excerpt of Mark Steyn’s bestselling book America
Alone, have raised alarms about the rise in
government sponsored censorship in Canada – especially against
Christians. |
Good news for ‘mainline’ churchesDiana Butler Bass based her
new book Christianity for the Rest of Us on a a three-year research project assessing 50
congregations in six ‘mainline’ American denominations: United
Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran, United Methodist, Presbyterian,
Disciples of Christ and the Episcopal Church. |
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