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...minutes' walk from a checkpoint at the looming security wall that Israel built after the second intifadeh, to physically separate the Jewish state from the West Bank. In Bethlehem, a long-established Arab Christian community is shrinking in the face of growing Islamic militancy. Even the Church of the Nativity (carved up by the Orthodox, Catholic, Assyrian, Coptic and Armenian denominations, a symbol of the divisions within Christianity) has not been immune to the clash of faiths. In 2002 Palestinian militants took refuge there, and together with civilians inside the church, were besieged by Israeli soldiers for 39 days. Blair...
...media, there is no fault worse than to be a sanctimonious "Creeping Jesus." During Blair's time in office, the satirical magazine Private Eye ran a regular (and very funny) column in the form of a parish newsletter, with Blair cast as the cloyingly earnest vicar of St. Albion church. Over the years, I have been struck by the vehement unwillingness of people in Britain to accept that Blair's faith is genuine or that it might provide genuine insights into our global condition. His religiosity was "incomprehensible," one well-known intellectual sniffed recently; I have heard Blair's recent...
...edge of weirdism." Thompson, by contrast, Blair told me, was "an amazing guy-the first person really to give me a sense that the faith I intuitively felt was something that could be reconciled with being a fun-loving, interesting, open person." In 1974 Blair was received into the Church of England at his college chapel...
...networks of congregations - then the number of PEACE missionaries would jump from roughly 2,000 a year to 200,000, vaulting the network to the forefront of the missionary field. Nor has Warren confined his invitation to those pastors in attendance. He is sending DVDs to the 30,000 churches that have participated in his rigorous "40 Days of Purpose" programs. And it was streamed from his website in hopes of capturing some of the half-million church leaders Warren and his team claim to have trained in his theological and organizational tenets over the last quarter-century. Even...
...Still, Warren has passed the point of no return. Until now, he could easily have pulled the plug on the PEACE coalition. Now, that would mean hauling back people like Ray Hammond, youth minister for the Brockport Free Methodist Church in Brockport, N.Y., who signed up along with his senior pastor and three other colleagues. "We're taking this home to our people," exulted Hammond, "and saying, 'We've got to get more involved in the mission of what God's doing in this world.' To be part of getting churches connected to each other globally, and not just sending...