Wise pastoral care invites honesty and good questions. It is willing to enter into the untidy perplexity and complexity of individual lives. Wise counseling also cares, and feels the weight of human troubles. It bears and bears with the struggles and sorrows of others.

This is something I prayed a lot about," he says. "I continued to not find peace about it. It just goes so much deeper than golf and my PGA Tour card and my career," he explains. "I didn't want there to be this little chasm in between me and God or me and this thing that I always thought would be on my conscience and weigh on me

Just now, hopes are high. I have talked to Church people who actively dislike evangelicals, but even they express complete trust in Dr Welby’s openness. No one expects a war between High and Low, Anglo-Catholics and Bible-bashers. They expect an archbishop who will speak bravely to England, and the wider world, in clear English, about the claims that Jesus makes on the life of society and on each human being.

In the current political climate, I am grateful for liberals who have the temerity to question their own movement. I may disagree with them greatly on political matters, but it is refreshing to have some thinkers who do not march lock step with their own tribe

Usually, stories of decline focus on "Mainline Protestantism," which has taken many hits even as it scores some others. But the demographers reveal that decline is also measured in many large evangelical Protestant churches, which are no longer exempt from the trends

When asked again by his own attorney if the Crystal Cathedral had permission to sell his material on the Internet, Schuller said: "I need to discuss that with the Lord." Schuller had trouble remembering answers to other questions, including statements he had made in a court declaration and a sworn deposition.

In 2010, high court ruled 5-4 that the land swap was permissible, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing, “The goal of avoiding governmental endorsement [of religion] does not require eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm.”

Convicted by the realization that more people had died for their Christian faith in the twentieth century than in all the previous centuries combined, our coalition first met on January 23, 1996 at a meeting convened by Nina Shea, the director of the Center for Religious Freedom

(Pastor Paul) Levy said that if approved, the new building will maximise flexibility and usefulness of the spaces for a number of church and community-related activities to include a parent and toddler group, women’s English language classes and a children’s programme catering for youngsters aged five to 18.

The Christian right should have a natural inroad with Hispanics. The vast majority of Hispanics are evangelical or Catholic, and many of those are religious conservatives opposed to same-sex marriage and abortion. And yet, the pressing issue of immigration trumped religion, and Mr. Obama won the Hispanic vote by 44 percentage points.