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...began attending Baptist services in Tempe, Ariz., before moving to Phoenix. "I just liked the church," he says. The four youngest McCain children are Baptists. Still, McCain maintains his Episcopalianism. Richard Jackson, pastor emeritus of North Phoenix, is not bothered. "I'm concerned about a person's relationship with Christ," he says, "and I was convinced he had that personal faith." McCain, he judges, "is not a biblically versed, mature Christian. He's a novice scripturally. But the Hanoi Hilton is not a seminary...
...Inquisition, in which the Vatican authorized torture as a means of extracting confessions from "heretics." The document challenges many of the practices of the church in the New World, by criticizing forced conversions and stressing the need to bring converts to Catholicism by the example of "living in a Christ-like way" rather than proselytizing. And it seeks forgiveness for "Catholic solidarity in the sin of division" among Christians, referring to the Vatican's conflicts with Protestant and Orthodox denominations, binding Catholics to find ways of overcoming such divisions...
...present, the population of China is approximately 1,250,000,000 and the number of Mormons worldwide is a mere 10,500,000. Assume, however, that China's communist cadres continue their country's policy of zero population growth while The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps garnering converts and encouraging large families to the tune of, say, five percent expansion a year. By 2099, Mormons will outnumber Chinese by a healthy margin of 65,012,578 men, women and children...
Bush, more than any other candidate, has incorporated his personal faith into his campaign policy and rhetoric. He proclaimed Jesus Christ as his hero during an Iowa Republican debate and has outlined 'faith-based' initiatives...
...Noble's substantial endowment to establish the Noble Lectures and made no complaint about her religious conditions. Spong is singularly unqualified to fulfill Noble's stipulations that the lecture present Jesus as "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," that it inspire people to "the joy of service for Christ," or that it present the "personality of Jesus, as given in the New Testament." Spong is famous only because of his contempt for the New Testament's portrayal of Jesus and for his denouncements of anyone who claims that Jesus is "the Truth...