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Christian dating via text messaging


‘Obama skips church, heads to the gym’


Bob Jones U. apologizes for racist past


Being paid to kill Christians


Some Christian colleges won’t survive bad economy


The Obama Christian question


‘What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church?‘


Barack Obama’s awesome, blue God


Christians get out the vote, pray for the future


Christian ministers prefer McCain


Christian pre-fall-fundamentalists celebrate naked mass


More than half of Protestant Christians disapprove of Bush’s job


Rick Warren trashes his Hawaiian shirt collection


Economy keeps tumbling; what hath God wrought?


Christians like book of Jewish business wisdom


Preachers to challenge tax laws Sunday


Sarah Palin and other sexy Puritans


GodBlogCon, not to be confused with porn convention


Seven years ago ...


Putting the Bible’s stories, not books, in order


Circumcision wars: Christians opt for Jewish bris


Christianity enters the virtual world of reality TV


Set Free Ministries bikers charged with attempted murder *


Muslim woman punches Christian preacher


The interview: Hamas scion explains conversion to Christianity, respect for Israel


What Would Jesus Drive?


Hamas scion converts to Christianity, respects Israel


Join the 30-day Levicitus challenge


The genius of Stuff Christians Like


An altar call to cut up that credit card


God is not dead, not by a longshot


Connecting churches more difficult than dividing Palestine, pastor says


Behind the scenes of American fundamentalism


‘Power in the Blood’: Praying for the electric chair


Schism grows in Anglican Communion


Christian lawyer to Supreme Court: ‘Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition’


Messianic truth in advertising

Myers and the messianic movement are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the Israeli public

The Chinese Christian comeback


Latino clergy get firsthand look at Israel

Tony Solorzano had dreamed of seeing Israel. At 54, he'd spent countless Sundays at the pulpit and weekdays on Radio Zion talking about the land of Abraham and Jacob and David -- and Jesus

In Jesus name, Ontario Council meeting begins


The toughest subject for Christian students is Christianity


The changing role of pastors in the information age


Christianity and politics: Obama discusses salvation and public office


How IQ corresponds with biblical literalism


Jumping for Jesus in a house filled with Jews


Orthodox Jews torch pile of New Testaments


‘The Ned Testament’


Katherine’s story: more on the Problem of Pain and how faith has buoyed a family and thousands


Inside the wacky world of Christian pop culture


‘God’ speaks about wanting a new name


Pope urges Israel to help Christians in Mideast


Messianic Jew causes boycott call from Bible Quiz


Florida considers Christian-themed license plates


Gonzo journalist goes on Christian retreat; says ‘Jesus made me puke’


Fighting over Christ’s grave


The president need not be a Christian


Christians fleeing Iraq; few entering U.S.


Born-again Christians more likely to divorce


Gold teeth from God?


‘Ain’t no Darwin fish’


Algeria orders 19 churches closed


The media battle for a denomination’s soul


Luther still not on pope’s good side


Conditions worsen for Palestinian Christians


Mainline churches at odds with Israel


It will take a miracle to sell your home


Mel Gibson still Hollywood’s star Christian


Muslims and Christians worship the same God?


Stop me if you’ve heard this one


Jesus Christ’s rockstar


Americans change faiths frequently


Lily Isaacs, from Jewish folk to Christian Gospel


30-day sex challenge


Pastor prays for foes demise


A godly athlete on sharing his faith


Israel [hearts] Valentine's Day

Although many people today correlate St. Valentine's Day with Christianity, the contemporary, commercial holiday of love is actually rooted in paganism. In honor of the goddess of marriage, love, fertility and women, Juno Februata, the Romans held a pagan festival in which girls and boys were matched for erotic festivities by drawing names from a box.

Clinton and Obama split religious vote


Our image problem: Jews have no ‘big picture’

Christianity has an image problem, and Christians ought to pay earnest attention to it, rather than dismissing it as the product of media bias. That's the message of a new book that should be of interest to Jews, because it shows the kind of questions that Christians have started asking themselves -- questions that we Jews don't seem to be asking ourselves. Yet we, too, have an image problem.

Romney says Mormons not Christians?


The decaying urban church


The curse of context


The Bible for dummies—and experts

In "How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now" (Free Press, $35) -- which recently won the 2007 Jewish book of the year prize of the National Jewish Book Awards -- Kugel's interest is not only in what the text says, but in what a modern reader is to make of it.

The search for biblical history


The Christians who live below India’s caste


Christians shouldn’t worry about the economy


The Onion for Christians


Rev. Fuhrer a foe of injustice


Christian mission at the porn convention


Malaysian Christians can call God ‘Allah’


Robertson predicts recession, stock crash


Law and disorder

Only in Los Angeles can you have a convention of Orthodox Jews where the keynote address is given by a woman named Bacon, the special guest speaker is a famous Hollywood film critic and the executive director begins his Shabbat sermon by talking about Christmas.

Effort to destroy Old Damascus


Yes, Virginia, there is an obese Santa Claus


Silent nights without ‘Silent Night’


Catholic League to Huckabee: Stop selling your Christian creds like a used-car salesman


America’s ‘Holy Highway’


MacArthur: Wouldn’t lie to hide Jews from Nazis


Surprising religion mention in ESPN story about NBA trade value


Undie Run: What have we done?


The better soda: latke or Christmas ham?


Not the typical Christmas dilemma


The massive menorah and the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas tree’


Christians approaching zero in PA-run parts of Holy Land


Hitchens: ‘To Hell with Hanukkah’


‘Merry Christmas’ runs contrary to Chanukah


‘Huckabee: “A different kind of Jesus juice”’


A pig named Muhammad, er, Bill Keller


The apocalypse is upon us


‘The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses’


Santa Claus, Harry Potter and Baby Jesus


New Yorker on megachurches


Do GOP candidates believe every word of the Bible?


‘Stalking celebrities in LA’s churches’


Christians who haven’t seen the movies or read the books they profess to be evil


Quote of the day


Time to hang the Christmas lights


It’s not about ethics, it’s business


Sleeping with his brother’s wife


‘How Hollywood saved God’


A Christian responds to atheism


Catholic bishops turned away from Western Wall


Pastor Hagee the gentile Maccabi


Obama Girl’s Coulter crush


Quote of the day


‘The New Wars of Religion’


Scientology taught in church


‘The Crisis of Modern Fundamentalism’


Overheard in the Rockies locker room after Game 2


Blaming Jews for killing Jesus


Interfaith panel wrestles with troubling texts:<BR>Will the real 'chosen' please rise?

Scholars, clergy and seminarians gathered this week at the Luxe Hotel to discuss troubling passages and ideas in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and ways of understanding them in modern times, as part of "Troubling Traditions: Wrestling With Problem Passages," a conference co-sponsored by the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University.

Conversations with a Pharisee and a Christian


Kicking butt in Jesus’ name—amen


‘Don’t have the house of the Lord in sub-prime loans’


‘Listen little girl, you’re really cute and all, but I don’t believe in Jesus’


Coulter: Jews need ‘perfecting’


The faith-and-football shuffle


The capricious God of the Psalms


U.S. not a Christian nation


Palestinian Christian murdered for selling Bibles


Who exactly are ‘militant atheists’ attacking?


The allure of atheism for a liberal Jew


LA Times learns ‘Evangelicals Split on GOP’


The world of ‘classical Christian education’


Evangelicals to split from Republican Party?


Latino pastors celebrate Sukkot and Israel in Westwood

About 200 Latino evangelical Christians were guests for a Sukkot meal and Israeli flag ceremony hosted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Israeli consulate. The event was designed to strengthen relations between Jews and a specific segment of the Latino community -- evangelicals.

Latinos who love Israel, maybe Jews too


Was Pope John Paul II allowed to die?


Bob Dylan a Chabadnik?


Mitt Romney sits down with Christianity Today


Gay ‘Last Supper’ sparks outrage


“Older, Wiser Ex-Gay Movement’


All Saints cleared by IRS


The intersection of God and grades


Who cares what kind of Christian John McCain is?


City bills church for anti-immigration protest against it


The president’s own personal Jesus


‘Holy Hampton Hostilities’


Scary evangelicals?


Christian insurance


Jesus loves company


The transsexual minister and the president’s pick for America’s physician


Grace and idolatry on the gridiron


Nuns on the run (sort of)


The saga of Patrick Henry ... College


‘What did Paul really mean?‘


‘Paintball for Jesus’ in ‘gun-toting Christian town’


Was Vick born again? Christians make the call


Televangelist loses broadcast after slamming Islam


What’s wrong with United Methodists?


My take on Mark Lilla’s ‘Stilborn God’


Accused pedophile allegedly faked his death


Billy Graham’s diabolical side


Jew becomes ‘radical Muslim’ and falls back


‘Funny,‘ The Forward says, ‘Brad Greenberg Doesn’t Look Christian’


Bishop: Christians should call God ‘Allah’


When the Episcopal schism comes between brothers


‘God’s Warriors’ to invade primetime


Karl Rove’s out—what’s next?


Suing to make conversion official in Egypt


Nevada blocks Christian-socialist health care


Remembering evangelicals for Iraq


Evangelical vote a ‘jump ball’ in ‘08


When God speaks, don’t check your e-mail


Clinton soon to be a Jew?


Which nation persecutes Bible distributors?


Rudy not pro-choice?


The evangelical problem


Second Coming: ‘I hope he comes tomorrow’


Actress Lindsay Lohan Needs Jesus


Paradise lost for LA Times religion reporter


Is The End near?


House church, like the early Christians


Cardinal Mahony as the serpent and the mayor as Adam


The Harry Potter gospel


Don’t touch that dial—you’ll miss Jesus


Israeli cable wants to yank Christian station


Rabbi’s existence causes uproar in Egypt


Jesus the social philosopher


LA Archdiocese to sell headquarters


Question for the day



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