A RECENT shock declaration by a young American evangelist that homosexuality is not a sin seems not to have sunk into the consciousness of Lesley Pilkington, 60, a British psychotherapist who agreed to “convert” a gay man who said he wanted to change his sexual orientation. Pilkington, 60, is to appear before a professional conduct [...]
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The words ‘evangelical’ and ‘evangelism’ produce distinctly queasy feelings among some people, Christian and otherwise. In the media, they are often wrongly used interchangably. So writes Ekklesia’s Simon Barrow in a report about a great gathering of evangelical leaders from around the world. The Lausanne Movement – brainchild of Southern Baptist Billy Graham, now 92 [...]
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A TOWERING monument to evangelical cheesiness, southern California’s Crystal Cathedral – birthplace of the televangelist show “Hour of Power – has spectacularly gone belly up. The megachurch this week filed for bankruptcy after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million. In addition to a $36 million mortgage, the Orange County-based church owes $7.5 [...]
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A SMALL gang of noisy Christian nitwits were given their marching orders by the residents of a Toronto neighbourhood after the unwelcome god-botherers were assumed to have targeted the home of a gay couple at the weekend. A row erupted after members of the Highfield Road Gospel Hall in the east end of Toronto invaded [...]
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THE Military Religious Freedom Foundation has written a letter to the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates about a troubling new fact of life in some parts of the military – the use of chaplains to treat mental health problems frequently encountered by soldiers during war, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The letter, sent last [...]
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A SEVEN-year-old African girl, adopted by a pair of fundamentalist Christian loons in the US, died after receiving a “Bible-based” beating. Her 11-year-old sister, who was also severely assaulted, remains in a critical condition at a Sacramento children’s hospital. The two girls, Lydia, and her surviving sister Zariah, were adopted from an African orphanage in [...]
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