Fewer than half of Americans may be Christian by 2070, according to new projections
United StatesRNS America has long prided itself on being a country where people can choose whatever religion they like. The majority has long chosen Christianity. By 2070, that may no longer be the case. If current trends continue, Christians could make up less than half of the population – and as little as a third […]
Is Danish king, who spread Christianity and gave name to Bluetooth, buried in Poland?
Wiejkowo, PolandAP More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a European king whose nickname lives on through wireless technology is at the center of an archaeological dispute. Chronicles from the Middle Ages say King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson of Denmark acquired his nickname courtesy of a tooth, probably dead, that looked […]
Books: An exploration of how Christianity has shaped Western values – and what happens when they’re disconnected from Jesus
DAVID ADAMS reads Glen Scrivener’s ‘The Air We Breathe’…
Sight-Seeing: Be different to make a difference
In an edited excerpt from his new book ‘Religious Freedom In A Secular Age’, MICHAEL F BIRD looks at what it is that makes Christians stand out from the crowd…
Sight-Seeing: The difference is hope
MATTHEW SMEAL reflects on the importance of hope…
Technology…or behaviour?
My daughter pointed out to me that in virtually all books written before the Industrial Revolution that imagine future time-travel, none of them imagine technological improvement. Rather they look at future human behaviour. PICTURE: Ales Nesetril/Unsplash. Technological improvements were inconceivable before the industrial revolution, now they are the focus of almost all future discussion. And behaviour is […]
Essay: Why the future of the world’s largest religion is female – and African
GINA ZURLO, co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at what trends are showing about the make-up of the church of the future…
Books: A “roller-coaster” explanation of the Christian faith
DAVID ADAMS enjoys Rory Shiner and Peter Orr’s short yet profound guide to what Christians believe…
Essay: Just 1.7 per cent of people in PNG are vaccinated against COVID. Why is resistance so fierce?
In an article first published on The Conversation, FRASER MACDONALD, a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, looks at what factors, including religious beliefs, are hampering Papua New Guinea’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout…
Books: When Christians face mental health challenges
DARREN and JESSIE CRONSHAW read a book focused on the interaction between Christian spirituality and mental health challenges…