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  Christian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Christian is primarily an adjective, describing an object associated with Christianity, but is also frequently used as noun in the same sense (ie, a person associated with Christianity).
Christians of this stripe maintain that a centralizing impulse in the church, present from the early days of the church through the rise of Constantine, represented a departure from true Christianity.
Christian spirituality was based in the spiritual nourishment of the sacrament, and in the application of faith to demands of daily existence.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Christian.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Esther Kaplan -- A BuzzFlash Interview
At a recent Christian Coalition Conference I attended in Washington (held, incidentally, inside the Senate office building), Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition, announced that her organization would be distributing 90 million voter guides to these congregations in the month leading up to the election.
Look, if Christian fundamentalists want to use their faith as a guide for their own lives, and want to personally shun homosexuality, abortion, sex education, and even evolutionary science, their freedom to do so is fiercely protected by the Constitution.
Christian right figures like Tim LaHaye, author of the blockbuster "Left Behind" series of novels, which have sold some 55 million copies, see signs of the "End Times" in everything from Bush's invasion of Iraq to his hard-line stance toward the Palestinians.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/10/int04057.html   (3053 words)

  
 (DV) Oldfield: Unilateralism -- The Christian Right's Influence and How to Counter It
From the Christian right perspective, the UN is an institution dominated by radical feminists bent on using international institutions to impose their agenda on both the U.S. and a socially conservative third world.
The Christian right has been rewarded with appointments on delegations to UN conferences and supportive administration action on its international social agenda (see Butler), and it has been heartened by the president's use of religious language to justify his policies.
Christian right opposition to favored trade status for China was closely tied to that country's treatment of its Christian citizens.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Mar04/Oldfield0322.htm   (5613 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects
We moved Ashe to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- he had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
She was considered by Gore as a possible VP runningmate for 2000, but she did not make the final short list.
We moved Hardy to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- she had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
www.politics1.com /dems04.htm   (13615 words)

  
 La Shawn Barber’s Corner
Christians, bloggers and non, must remember that we may be all the “Bible” some people will read.
Carolyn McCully is a Christian author and blogger I met at a meet-up, but she couldn’t make it to the convention.
Christians are to do all they do for the glory of God, but I know that not everything I do and write glorifies God.
www.lashawnbarber.com   (2828 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - Catholic Politicians Continuing 'Unfortunate' Legacy of JFK
According to www.yourcongress.org, 144 members of the 107th Congress identified themselves as Catholic: 15 Democrats and 9 Republicans in the Senate, and 71 Democrats and 42 Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Doyle said when politicians say they are not going to let the Church tell them what to do, it really means that interest groups, media institutions and the "big money campaign contributors that make their careers possible" will call the shots for them instead.
He said politicians claiming faith to the Church ought to have the "integrity" to act more Catholic in their public lives.
www.crosswalk.com /news/religiontoday/1212953.html   (830 words)

  
 SmartChristian Blog » NATIONS OF THE WORLD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Christian Democrat leader Angela Merkel is set to replace Gerhard Schröder as Germany’s next chancellor, in a political deal that will see the departure of Mr Schröder from the national political stage.
They demand that Bible-distributing Christians should be arrested, or chapels in their homes should be put under police scrutiny.
Christian minority citizens traditionally have been of non-Turkish ethnic origin and during the Ottoman Empire, as well as later during the Republic period, they have accepted their minority status and lived according to the regulations of the Turkish governments.
smartchristian.com /blog/index.php?cat=2   (7073 words)

  
 Christian-right views are swaying politicians and threatening the environment | By Glenn Scherer | Grist Magazine | ...
Christian dominion will be achieved by ending the separation of church and state, replacing U.S. democracy with a theocracy ruled by Old Testament law, and cutting all government social programs, instead turning that work over to Christian churches.
Christian Zionists believe that the 1948 creation of the state of Israel marked the first event in what author Hal Lindsey calls the "countdown to Armageddon" and they are committed to making that doomsday clock tick faster, speeding Christ's return.
Today's Christian fundamentalist politicians are more politically savvy than Reagan's interior secretary was; you're unlikely to catch them overtly attributing public-policy decisions to private religious views.
www.grist.org /news/maindish/2004/10/27/scherer-christian   (4016 words)

  
 Christian and Church News updated daily at Worthy News.
Christians from troubled parts of Indonesia were among a group of some 100 persecuted people from around the world who participated in a rally outside United Nations headquarters Wednesday.
Christians living in Islamic lands are paying a price for the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan, as angry Muslims retaliate for what they see as an attack on their religion by the Christian West, according to a leading charity which monitors religious persecution.
Christians in Egypt are gathering in record numbers this week to fast and pray for an unprecedented evangelistic outreach through a special series of meetings.
www.worthynews.com /christian-news-archive-sept-dec-2001.html   (6294 words)

  
 BRAMA - Parties Registered for the March 1998 Election in Ukraine
The NEP list includes many candidates from Krym, who, however, are not identified with the rebirth party, which is a small party even in Krym.
Its list of 81 candidates is headed by chief editor of the paper Nash Chas Viktor Prysyazhnyuk (No. 1) and President of the Association of Farmers of Ukraine Mykola Shkarban (No. 3) but otherwise included few prominent figures.
The list includes the chief editor of the popular paper Kievskiye Vedomosti, Viktor Chayka, but the latter was recently expelled from Rukh after a bitter public dispute with Chornovil.
www.brama.com /ua-gov/pol-detl.html   (2026 words)

  
 "Politicians With Their Snouts in the Pork Barrel" by Joe Mariani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Politicians try to rationalize pork-barrel waste by saying that the tax dollars taken by the federal government are returned to the states for use, but they forget one thing: no one old enough to pay taxes was born yesterday.
The loopholes and all that ''wiggle room'' politicians and special interests use to their advantage have to be removed from the Byzantine tax code.
Politicians who aren't constantly working on their next campaign might be able to spare some time to do the work they were put in office to do.
www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=11456   (1107 words)

  
 The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
Christian Identity was the glue than held the groups together.
From ultra-right Christian fundamentalists comes the idea of a secular humanist conspiracy involving liberal elites such as radical academics, teachers union leaders, journalists and network television programmers and gay men and lesbians who pave the way for leftists, socialists and communists.
Christian Identity wraps all the conspiracy theories together and adds the myth that white Christian Americans are God's Chosen People fighting a religious war against satanic forces.
www.publiceye.org /rightist/idennlns.html   (1818 words)

  
 Links for Puerto Rico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
List of BSA local councils and districts in Puerto Rico
List of people known as the father or mother of something
List of countries and capitals in native languages
www.askfactmaster.com /Links:Puerto_Rico   (418 words)

  
 History & info - the Christian calendar (Julian)
The "Christian calendar" is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although its connection with Christianity is highly debatable.
Two main versions of the Christian calendar have existed in recent times: The Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar.
In the Christian world, Easter (and the days immediately preceding it) is the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus in (approximately) C.E. See additional information on Easter.
webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-christian.html   (2185 words)

  
 Free Christian Personals - Practical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Free Christian Personals, and Free Christian Dating Services information: You may have suffered some degree of loss when your last relationship ended.
Determine the qualities you desire in a matemake a list of the qualities and characteristics your next lover must possess.
Trouble is when the politicians don't deliver on the promises, the voters become unhappy/disillusioned.
www.christianoptions.com /Free-Christian-Personalsca.html   (298 words)

  
 Christian History Corner: The Politicians' Patron - Christianity Today Magazine
More Christian History, including a listing of events that occurred this week in the church's past, is available at ChristianHistory.net.
Christian History explored the English Reformation in issue 48: Thomas Cranmer, which is not online but may be purchased in the CH store
Christianity and the Olympic Games were once competitors, but at other times have been on the same team.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2000/141/56.0.html   (868 words)

  
 Weblog: Bad News for Fired Christian is Good News for Christian Organizations - Christianity Today Magazine
The LJCC argued that their firing of evangelical Christian bookkeeper Linda LeBoon had everything to do with economics, and nothing whatsoever to do with her attending a Jews for Jesus concert at her church, where she ran into a Jewish counter-missionary who had conducted a seminar at the center.
Some pundits and politicians have been adamant that publicly funded religious organizations be forbidden from making staffing decisions on religious grounds.
Christianity is being insidiously erased from the map.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2004/151/21.0.html   (6708 words)

  
 Informed Comment : 10/01/2003 - 10/31/2003
And they decided that Iraqi Christians should be known as Chaldeassyrians instead of as Chaldeans and Assyrians, so as to stress the unity of the Iraqi Christian community.
Iraqi Christians are estimated at 3.5 percent of the population.
Nestorian Christians in the Middle East who spoke Syriac or Aramaic or used them in their liturgy were called Assyrians.
www.juancole.com /2003_10_01_juancole_archive.html   (12349 words)

  
 The Future of Jewish-Christian Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jews and Christians alike, we are faced with a growing secularisation that either denies or simply ignores the existence of God.
Part of the problem was due to the way in which the document was presented by the media, and many early negative reactions were the result not of reading what the document stated, but rather of what the media had given as its contents.
Rather it has an absolutely special relationship to Christianity, and the document itself makes clear that the Hebrew Testament is considered by the Catholic Church, together with the New Testament, as inspired by God in the strict sense of the term.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/research/cjl/articles/cassidy.htm   (3708 words)

  
 Beloit College Releases the Mindset List for the Class of 2008   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This fall, a new generation of students is entering colleges and universities with its own particular view of the world.
One of its primary purposes has been, in the words of co-editor Tom McBride, Keefer Professor of the Humanities at the Wisconsin liberal arts college, an attempt to slow the onset of “hardening of the references” experienced by some faculty.
This year, the list was edited by Professor of Classics Art Robson who regularly teaches in the College’s First Year Initiatives (FYI) program for entering students, along with Public Affairs director Ron Nief.
www.beloit.edu /~pubaff/releases/mindset_2008.htm   (723 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Christian County, Ill.
The list of cemeteries here is not comprehensive, nor is it intended to be.
This site only lists about 5,000 cemeteries where politicians are known to have been buried (the number grows gradually as more research is done).
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
www.potifos.com /tpg/geo/IL/CX.html   (530 words)

  
 The Christian Science Monitor: Buchanan's enemies list.(Opinion)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
I have always prided myself on being able to maintain journalistic detachment about politicians, even Richard Nixon.
But when my involvement with a politician is such that it could color my views, I count it my journalistic obligation to make full disclosure.
The above preview is from The Christian Science Monitor, November 12, 1999.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:57534039&refid=ink_tptd_np   (155 words)

  
 The Christian Evangel-list/JLYM Link Directory -
The Wedlock Cross is a sterling silver pendant that holds rings when they cannot be worn through activity or illness (such as arthritis).
A funding source for Christian churches, ministries and families.
C28 is your source for bold Christian clothing, t-shirts, jewelry, dvds, stickers, music, and more.
www.evangel-list.com /Faith/links/links.php?cat=175   (457 words)

  
 Rick Santorum's Republican Child Molesters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Republican party chairman and Christian Coalition leader, Louis Beres is under investigation for sexually molesting his children.
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr.
www.armchairsubversive.com   (1279 words)

  
 Salon Newsreal | Secret lives of the Republicans, Part One
"When Hoosier politicians and pundits gathered, they would tell each other stories about Burton scoring with interns and pages, scoring with staffers in his offices and staffers in his campaign, scoring with Carmel housewives and some fine and famous Christian women elsewhere in his district.
The stories were never told elsewhere to anyone else, either by politicians or pundits," Ullmann continued.
Ullmann went on to pose, open-letter style, a list of pointed questions -- questions that NUVO reporter Brian Howey had planned to ask Burton in a scheduled interview for a hard news story.
www.salon.com /news/1998/09/11newsb.html   (1375 words)

  
 10 Christian Blogs : Decablog
A more extended look at the Christian Blogosphere can be found at the blogdom of God where a number of other Christian aggregators are also listed.
As I have been pondering the overall growth and development of the Christian Blogosphere, I am coming to the conclusion that the emerging divide within the Christian Blogosphere is not primarily because of denominations, politics, or theologies, but is rooted in two distinct reasons for blogging.
As a result I might for example come to the conclusion that the ESV was the bloggers favorite translation as it sure does seem to be so in my neck of the woods.
server.com /WebApps/newsapp/news-read.cgi?profile=5457   (5182 words)

  
 Readers Respond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Surely the list is short, if there is a list.
Certainly our Christian President and Attorney General are not on the list.
Global headlines should have read: "Pope prays for eternal bliss for 9-11 villains"; and each such headline would have done a million times more to fulfill the Great Commission to proclaim the Gospel to all nations than a million days of fake publicprayer or Bible-thumping in the public school classrooms.
clarionherald.org /20021106/artltr.htm   (266 words)

  
 Famous Adherents: What religion was...?
We suggest that you not start by limiting your search to that directory first because there are many lists in other areas of the website wherin you may find the name of the person you are looking for.
For a few religious groups (Presbyterians, Zoroastrians, Baptists, Baha'is, Quakers, Seventh-day Adventists, Tenris, Christian Scientists, etc.), we found there were some interesting, famous adherents, but there was no webpage already dedicated to the subject, so we have created original pages housed on the Adherents.com website.
Political Graveyard - Has separate lists of politicians who were: Episcopalian or Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregationalist, Lutheran, Unitarian/Universalist, Mormon (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Disciples of Christ, Quaker, Christian Reformed, Eastern Orthodox, Seventh-Day Adventist, or Jewish.
www.adherents.com /adh_fam.html   (875 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
Thus, the AHP describes itself as "a political party that adopts the Bible as its political textbook and is unashamed to be explicitly Christian...
AFP is the newer and smaller of the two Falangist political parties in the USA (the Christian Falangist Party, above, being the other one).
A "Falangist" -- just in case you've forgotten -- is a follower of the authoritarian political views advocated by the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (to wit: largely a blend of 1930s fascist ideology, strong nationalism and conservative Catholic theology).
www.politics1.com /parties.htm   (9731 words)

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