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1.) IF John Hagee, Perry Stone, and/or anyone else on TCT, TBN, INSP, WCT, etc, accept women as being able to occupy the positions of apostles, and/or prophets, and/or evengelists, and/or pastors and/or teachers (with such examples such as Paula White and Joyce Meyer (whom I believe operate as a pastor and teacher respectively)), and... 2.) IF they believe that women can occupy these positions within the sphere of the New Testament/New Covenant, and... 3.) IF they believe that the office of Rabbi (Messianic or otherwise) has been carried over into the New Testament/New Covenant, (with such examples as Kurt...

Grassroots Christian activists from across the country are in Washington, D.C., learning how they can help change the course of the U.S. in November. The conference is being hosted by the relatively new Faith and Freedom Coalition. However, the group is already experiencing growing pains. The Faith and Freedom Coalition's first national conference will be filled with hundreds of grassroots leaders from across the country this weekend. Ralph Reed, the organization's founder, told CBN News that President Barack Obama's policies are making it easy to mobilize people of faith this year. "Barack Obama has awakened the slumbering giant of the...

A letter from 150 Iowa pastors was delivered to Iowa lawmakers today stating their support for same-sex marriage. Because this I run an ELCA focused website I am going to list the ELCA pastors that signed this letter. But you should look at the news article. (http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/02/16/150-iowa-clergy-we-support-same-sex-marriage/ ) There are many denominations represented here. This is a another sign of the Christian, church-wide problem with liberal theology and denial of Biblical Authority. The last paragraph of the letter says, "As clergy, we stand together in support of civil marriage equality for ALL families. We ask for your support of civil...

Newsflash: Evangelicals must face a new reality. No, not the advent of the Obama administration but the reality that they are a minority. On one hand, this is not new at all. Misperceptions notwithstanding, evangelical values didn’t exactly dominate America’s culture or politics during “the last eight years.” Daily Kos prophesies of theocracy failed to materialize. Yet a shift has occurred; like Earth’s rotation, barely noticeable. According to the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey, the percentage of self-identifying Christians has steadily declined for almost two decades, dropping 10 percent. During the same period, the percentage of Americans claiming no religious...

MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 5 /Standard Newswire/ -- Today the Fred Thompson campaign announced the addition of Shannon Royce, an experienced social conservative coalitions director and former Executive Director of The Arlington Group, who will be joining the Thompson Campaign to serve as Grassroots and Special Projects Director. Shannon Royce most recently served as Executive Director of the Arlington Group where she managed a coalition of over 70 organizations advocating on numerous pro-family initiatives. In that capacity, she coordinated coalition efforts on behalf of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. A former Legislative Assistant to Senator Slade Gorton and...

snip~In my experience, three factors influence how people of conservative religious faith, especially Evangelicals, approach the issue of man-caused Global Warming. The first is their theological view of man and the environment; the second is the perceived credibility of the scientific debate; and the third is how Evangelicals prioritize the issue of Global Warming among the other cultural and social issues of concern to them.Concerning the first factor, a very accurate rendering of Evangelicals' general theological position on the environment is presented in the Cornwall Declaration, [6] prepared by twenty-five conservative Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish theologians. In general, conservative people...

WASHINGTON -- A Vatican envoy Wednesday carried the pope's message to the White House that a U.S.-led war against Iraq without United Nations' approval would be "unjust and illegal." The stern words from Cardinal Pio Laghi, who met for 40 minutes with Bush, underscored the rift between the president, who considers himself a deeply religious man, and a number of Christian leaders over Iraq. Pope John Paul II has regularly preached against the war and asked Catholics worldwide to pray for peace and fast on Ash Wednesday. Several mainstream Protestant denominations also have come out against a pre-emptive strike by...