Studying the Faithful Consumers
If someone had created a stock market for spirituality in the 1990s, all of the prime indicators would have gone off the charts. That made sense, the experts told Beliefnet.com CEO Steven Waldman. The...
View ArticleSoulforce preaches to the Navy
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — All the Rev. Mel White, Jacob Reitan and the rest of their Soulforce team wanted to do was talk to people. That was the good news. The bad news was that they wanted to talk about God,...
View ArticleHitting the 500-year wall
Every half a millennium or so, waves of change rock Christianity until they cause the kind of earthquake that forces historians to start using capital letters. “What happened before the Great...
View ArticleNailing the evangelical fads
The upperclassman sat across the cafeteria table from freshman Joe Carter and, in a matter of minutes, asked The Big Question — a question about eternal life and death. As any evangelical worth his or...
View ArticleXmas is fake, so deal with it
As the Christmas pageant dress rehearsal rolled to its bold finale, reporter Hank Stuever found his mind drifting away to an unlikely artistic destination — a masterpiece from the Cubist movement. The...
View ArticleOrthodox bridge to evangelical world
As point man for Russian Orthodox relations with other faith groups, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev is used to talking shop with Catholics, Anglicans, leaders in older brands of Protestantism and other...
View ArticleEvangelicals vs. ‘secularists’ (2011)
When evangelical leaders look at the United States of America, they do not see a country defined by the familiar Gallup Poll statistic stating that 92 percent of its citizens profess some kind of...
View ArticleT.D. Jakes and the Trinity
For more than a decade, Pentecostal Bishop T.D. Jakes has lived in the shadow of a Time magazine cover that asked, “Is this man the next Billy Graham?” That was a loaded question, because of tensions...
View ArticleThe heretical art of Thomas Kinkade
When describing his painting “Candlelight Cottage,” the late Thomas Kinkade said its “candlelight has a cozy, intimate quality — especially when it’s suffused in the soft mist of this fine English...
View ArticleDefine ‘evangelical’ — 2013 edition
List America’s prominent evangelical Protestant voices and the Rev. Rick Warren remains near the top, up in the mix with the Rev. Brian McLaren, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Jim Wallis, the Rev. Tim Keller and...
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