[rob777]

For some this may be old news, but I post it to put to rest the widespread notion that Islam is the world's fastest growing faith I have read Jenkins book and reccomend it.

[Joe Boucher]

Bring out your dead.

Bring out your dead.

But I'm not dad yet.

But he will be soon.

[weegee]

I question those figures. 260million Christians in North America? Is this including Canada?

Having had Christian parents does not make one a Christian.

[ClearCase_guy]

Many of these churches seem to have only tenuous links to mainstream Christian beliefs and practices. Jenkins tells the story of the Musama Disco Christo Church in West Africa, for example, which follows much of the Mosaic Law. The group has erected a sacred pillar, built an Ark of the Covenant and has a Holy of Holies that may be entered only once a year by a high priest. The church also practices animal sacrifice.

Sounds different.

[Humvee]

This gentleman seems to confuse the total populaton counts for North America and Europe with the count for confessing Christians. Those numbers may be substantially less.

[Alia]

A few years ago, the Episcopal bishop of Newark, John Shelby Spong, penned a book entitled Why Christianity Must Change or Die. Spong argued that Christianity would inevitably decline unless it abandoned much of its traditional belief system.

Ping.