RELIGIOUS NEWS Roundup
Was Noah's flood a sign of climate change devastation to come?
in the London Times Online
Noah’s flood may have been responsible for the birth of modern civilisation across Western Europe, according to research. More...
Tony Jones Interviews Brian McLaren About His New Book
in the Emergent Village
Tony Jones, national coordinator of Emergent Village, interviews Brian about the book Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope and some of the blog reviews (positive and negative) he's received. Listen to the podcast here...
Interfaith dialogue ponders conversion issues
In August, the World Evangelical Alliance joined the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Pontifical Council in a dialogue at Toulouse, France, aimed at creating a code of conduct targeting "undue pressure" on people to change religions. More...
Mitt Romney Speech on Religion
With 39% of evangelical voters not comfortable with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, he made a case in a televised December 6 speech that concerns about his religion are out of bounds. Romney: "Let me assure you that no authorities of my church will ever exert influence on presidential decisions." Pundits are comparing the speech to the one John F. Kennedy gave about his "religious issue" on September 12, 1960. Watch the video.
'Compass' an attack on Christianity
Many Christians are writing off the "The Golden Compass" movie as a direct attack by a gifted atheist writer against Christianity. God's Politics, a blog by Rev. Jim Wallis and friends, has a review on the flick. While the writer doesn't think it promotes atheism he does call it "boring." More...
This cinematic watered down version of Phillip Pullman's children's novel hardly accomplishes what the book set out to do. Hollywood to the rescue? Read "How Hollywood Saved God."
