Paul Harrison, environmentalist and founder of the World Pantheist Movement, explains the basics of a belief system considered by some to be "sexed-up atheism."
In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins calls Pantheism “sexed-up atheism.” This is a fair description. Pantheism, in essence, is reverence for Nature and the wider Universe—the Pantheist “God” is everything that exists.
In fact the scientific, naturalistic Pantheism promoted by the World Pantheist Movement does not use the term “God” officially. Only a quarter of us are comfortable with using it metaphorically—to express the depth of our feeling towards ... read more
Tom Quinn finishes his series on Mormonism with a treatise on the most visible aspect of the faith: the shirt-and-tie clad missionaries who always seem interrupt dinner, naps and important phone calls.
No discussion of Mormonism, even one as aimless and amorphous as this, would be complete without mentioning the most visible—and arguably most annoying—aspect of the LDS Church: the missionaries.
Like an incredibly awkward, acne-riddled army, these teenagers and twentysomethings leave their families, jobs, educations and the occasional girlfriend to travel the world, selling Jesus door-to-door for two full years. During that time, Mormon missionaries live like monks; they give up ... read more
Tom Quinn, the New Statesman's token Mormon, explains the organization of the LDS Church in the third installment of this four-part series
Every religion seems to have its own specialty, that one aspect of worship it just seems to perform better than anyone else. Gregorian monks have their chanting, Southern Baptists have their choirs, and we Mormons have the blessed gift of organisation. Not since the fall of the Soviet Union have so many committees, subcommittees and sub-subcommittees been organised, disbanded, and subsequently reorganised in order to complete simple, day-to-day tasks.
The ... read more
Tom Quinn continues his series on the LDS Church by discussing some of his faith's most basic-and often controversial-points of doctrine.
Ever since Mitt Romney, a practising Mormon, began showing up at Republican presidential debates with his immaculately quaffed hair and robotic pseudo-personality, the general public has been paying a lot more attention to the LDS Church, a faith that until recently was easily dismissed as yet another creepy cult from the Western United States.
In my humble opinion as the lowest-ranking writer at the New Statesman, Mormonism is still largely ... read more
Tom Quinn, a Mormon born and raised in the LDS stronghold of Salt Lake City, provides a brief secular history of the "other" Christian religion
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon church, was formally organised in April of 1830 by Joseph Smith in a rural section of upstate New York. At that time, the congregation was small enough to meet inside a single farmhouse.
As their numbers grew, Smith and company began to move west in search of more space and eventually set up settlements in the ... read more
Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert finishes his series by explaining how the ADRA has brought together volunteers from all around the world.
The people that run the Adventist Development Relief Agency are every bit as diverse as the people they help—and the problems they face—worldwide.
Pansi's roots are in Malawi, where she has a house and a herd of goats. After many years spent working for the World Food Programme (WFP) in South Africa, Pansi applied to work as a Programmes Officer with the ADRA in the United Kingdom.
James is ... read more
Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert continues his four-part series by describing the progress ADRA volunteers have made in and around Somalia.
Windmills, solar powered water systems and more than 10,000 cooking stoves are really changing the lives of impoverished people in Somalia. With help from the European Commission, the ADRA—short for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency—is running an innovative project that benefits the semi-autonomous states of Puntland and Somaliland in a country still trying to heal from a long civil conflict.
Rita, a longtime worker for ADRA, can't help but ... read more
In the second installment of his four-part series, Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert writes on easing local conflict via organised relief projects.
Farmers in the Fandriana region of Madagascar fought over water for their rice crops. They had to stand guard over their rice paddies at night in case neighbours bored holes in their dams, stealing their water. There was bitterness, violence, and, as a result of poor harvests and malnutrition. A three-year project funded in part by the European Commission, "Alleviating Poverty through Improved Livelihood and Health," is teaching new rice ... read more
Seventh-day Adventist Victor Hulbert writes on his church's continuing efforts to ease the suffering in cyclone-battered Burma.
Teddy Dinh, Country Director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Burma, was busy constructing a jetty for a tsunami rehabilitation project near the villiage of Piensalu when the recent cyclone pounded the Southeast Asian nation.
He and a few colleagues narrowly escaped with their lives by taking shelter in a flooded rice storage facility from 5 pm until around midnight, when the storm finally began to ... read more
In his second and final installment, Craig Gross tells the story of someone who was rescued from the porn industry by the XXXchurch.
With over one million people visiting our website every year, we have seen that the issue of pornography reaches far and wide. Our organization aims to help those who consume porn and help those in the porn industry.As an outreach to the porn industry for the past six years, we have attended many pornography conventions. There we hang out with people who call porn their vocations. We met porn ... read more
Craig Gross, member of “xxxchurch.com,” explains his organization's goals and shines a light on its nickname, “The Number 1 Christian Porn Site.”
XXXchurch.com started six years ago in Southern California to help students who needed help with the issues of pornography. Since we have grown into a ministry that helps both teens and adults. We help those who profess to being Christians, those who do not have a faith and those in the pornography industry.
We call ourselves “XXXchurch.com, The Number 1 Christian Porn Site.” We launched the website AVN Las Vegas, ... read more
In the Bible, Jeremiah 29: 7 gives a clear mandate to the Israelite exiles in Babylon to seek and pursue the peace of the city they were held in. They are told to pray to the Lord for it with a promise that in the peace of that city they too would experience peace.
In 2000, Church leaders in partnership with the police hosted series of events to respond ... read more
A christian charity must be done by faith. Iam an Indian and iam Christian too. Faith through charity is a powerful.
From christian charity, 13 February 04:41
Still confusing to me. Isn't there a better, time tested way of escaping the chains of cultural poverty. An education, learning to speak in English sentences--using your given intellect to find...
From Harold Hatch, 27 January 21:48
@gnuneo, you your self might be in danger of over emphasising the 'individual' in New Age like leap of faith arising from phenomena that is far from understood.
From MG, 16 January 16:52
Can the UK achieve it’s commitment to carbon reduction targets by 2020?
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