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ISR’S Thomas Kidd in Wall Street Journal
The Billy Graham of Colonial America Benjamin Franklin said the preacher’s outdoor sermons could be heard by 30,000 people at a time. By Thomas S. Kidd This month marks the tricentennial of the birth...
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The Lost Classics of Christian Cinema
Silent film produced some of the greatest religious art of modern times. Philip Jenkins In the late 1920s, the coming of talking pictures suddenly made obsolete a gloriously flourishing tradition of...
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Babylonian Baptists December 12, 2014 by Philip Jenkins 0 Comments I have been posting about the emergence of Christianity in Iraq/Mesopotamia, and its possible inheritance from sectarian Judaism....
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A Worldwide Religious Awakening – Essays & Opinions
Rodney Stark: It is a very religious world, far more religious than it was 50 years ago. Gallup World Poll Surveys [link?] of more than a million people living in 163 nations show that: – 81 percent...
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300 years after his birth, Whitefield has staying power with evangelicals
Adelle M. Banks – December 16, 2014 (RNS) If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George Whitefield, hailed by scholars as the best-known evangelist of that century, would have been all over it....
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Jenkins’ book “The Great and Holy War” receives a CT Award of Merit
Some of the finest books pull us deeper into familiar subjects—biographies of great statesmen, say, or fresh takes on the essentials of Christian doctrine and discipleship. Others introduce us to...
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Christianity Today Gives a Book Award of Merit to Baylor Scholar and Author...
Dec. 18, 2014 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMedia Contact: Terry Goodrich,(254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (Dec. 18, 2014) — Christianity Today has given a 2015 Award of Merit to Baylor scholar Philip Jenkins...
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Religious Freedom Endowed Chair will support Baylor and ISR’s mission
Dallas Couple’s $2 Million Gift to Baylor Establishes Endowed Chair in Religious Freedom Dec. 18, 2014 A $2 million gift from Susie and Jerry Wilson of Dallas will establish an endowed chair in...
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The Life of Jesus: What Was Jesus Really Like?
Revolutionary zealot? Peacemaker? Virgin born? Just who was Jesus? Reza Aslan and others join HuffPost Live as we take a Deep Dive look into the often controversial interpretations of Christ ahead of...
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‘More God, less crime’ WORLD Magazine
Prison By Russ Pulliam Posted Dec. 30, 2014, 03:25 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS—The headline above is Byron Johnson’s conclusion and the title of the book he wrote from his prison ministry research. Here in...
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