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January 04 2008 By virtueonline Evangelical Leaders Pledge Common Cause with Islam

Others are just beginning to hear of it. In November, NEA President Leith Anderson and NEA Vice President Richard Cizik signed onto a Christian response to an invitation to dialogue from 138 Muslim leaders around the world.

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January 02 2008 By virtueonline How Sodomy Was Sold To America

In 1988, 74.9% of the American Public thought that sex between two people of the same gender was always wrong. By 1998, the percentage had fallen to 54.6% (National Opinion research Center, The University of Chicago.)

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December 28 2007 By virtueonline The Case for the Real Jesus

I strongly recommend this book this Christmas season because it compellingly debunks many of the most recent mythical challenges to Christianity. It is perfect for believers whose perceived spiritual security could be threatened by the crop of fantastic notions now circulating and for nonbelievers who are open to the evidence.

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December 26 2007 By virtueonline CANADA: Aftershock of the '60s Churches come tumbling down

The tower is falling apart. The congregation doesn't have $300,000 to rebuild it.

A church committee has unanimously advised the congregation to vote on Jan. 27 to leave the building, put it up for sale and merge with two other United churches in the city.

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December 25 2007 By virtueonline The Fundamental Truth About 'Fundamentalism'

Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Mendelsohn, Faure, Britten, Handel, and all the rest are just incomprehensible without understanding that. Everything else --- Michelangelo's Pieta, Rembrandt's Jewish Bride, all the great devotional monuments and buildings from the Parthenon to the sacred buildings in Jerusalem --- point to the same powerful nexus of the human imagination.

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December 24 2007 By virtueonline 10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War

In some kind of ascending order, it seems to me there are 10 reasons why pastors and priests avoid political and intense cultural issues and thus aid and abet evil:

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December 22 2007 By virtueonline AIDS Won't Overtake World, Global AIDS Expert Says

Chin, a clinical professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, formerly served as chief of the Surveillance, Forecasting, and Impact Assessment (SFI) unit of the Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Switzerland.

He spoke with Cybercast News Service from his office in Berkeley.

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December 21 2007 By virtueonline LONDON: 2007, a bad year for God squadders

Now it just amounts to a few feeble skirmishes, a couple of barmy Christians railing outside the shopping malls, while everybody else gets on with their daily worship at the shrines of the modern trinity: shopping, eating and drinking.

The Christmas war, in fact, is rapidly acquiring the status of historical curiosity. In a few years' time, we'll have to stage re-enactments, like those Civil War buffs who gather in soggy fields:

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December 20 2007 By virtueonline The Culture of Offendedness & the Christian Challenge

These days, it is the secularists who seem to be most intent on pushing a proposed right never to be offended by confrontation with the Christian Gospel, Christian witness, or Christian speech and symbolism. This motivation lies behind the incessant effort to remove all symbols, representations, references, and images related to Christianity from the public square.

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December 19 2007 By virtueonline VISION VIDEO Offers Perfect Gifts for Christmas, Home and Church

THE APOSTLES' CREED video is a living link that takes us over centuries to the Early Church. It's a bond that unites today's believers with diverse cultures and traditions. It's a concise summary of Biblical faith taught to new believers in the Early Church prior to being baptized. Here you will find a two-hour abridged version of an upcoming twelve hour curriculum series by award-winning producer-director T.N.

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