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...Denver," Ted Haggard said with a calm specificity during an interview with a Denver TV reporter on Wednesday night as controversy broke around him. "I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife." Nevertheless, the pastor of one of the most prominent mega-churches in the country ? and one of President George W. Bush's advisors on evangelical issues ? has agreed to resign from his own 14,000-member New Life Church and temporarily resigned as president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, which represents more than 45,000 evangelical churches across...
...half centuries ago, John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English. One year ago, a Wyclef Jean concert was cancelled at Harvard University.Wycliffe hoped to reform the Catholic Church. Wyclef, although he never intended to, helped spark a movement to reform another institution: the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC).By the end of the 2005 fall, many undergraduates had grown disenchanted with the HCC. After consecutive failures to lock down concerts with Snoop Dogg and Wyclef Jean, and a subsequent official inquiry by the Undergraduate Council (UC), there was a great deal of pressure on the HCC for internal reform.Now, a year...
...poll also confirms anecdotal evidence collected by those who regularly interact with adolescents. "I've talked to a lot of kids with emotional pain and pent-up anger stemming from a variety of factors including divorce and abuse, and they are looking for hope and help in the church," says Shannon Primicerio, a lecturer and author on religious topics whose work is targeted to teens...
...Furthermore, there's good reason to believe that the current generation of young adults are fleeing church in greater numbers and will be harder to lure back than previous ones. Although 61% of people in the 20-29 age group participated in church activities during their teens, that entire chunk now falls into the spiritually disengaged category. Moreover, only a third of 20-somethings who are parents regularly take their children to church, compared with 40% of parents in their 30s and half of parents who are 40 or older. "Even the impulse of parenthood-when people's desire...
...Results of the Study: What Teenagers Look for in a Church The Barna researchers asked 2,409 teenagers aged 13 to 18 why they would attend a worship service at a church, synagogue or temple. Here's what they said...