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Evangelicals mostly alone in believing God punishes with earthquakes: Poll
Fewer than one in four Americans believe that God uses earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and other ‘natural’ disasters to punish people. But evangelical Americans are much more likely to fear a wrathful...
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Poll: How religion and ethnicity shaped Canada’s 2011 election
The Conservatives topped the polls in the May 2 election in part by winning over religious voters, particularly Protestants, but also Jews and longtime immigrants. (Chart here.) The New Democratic...
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Facebook comments net eight-month jail term for Scottish football fan
A Glasgow soccer fan’s intemperate comments on Facebook about Catholics and fans of a rival team have earned him eight months in jail. Stephen Birrell, 28, posted the comments on a Facebook page called...
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Half world’s 2.3 billion Christians are Catholic: New survey
The world’s largest Christian population is in the United States. One-third of the world’s Christians live in the Americas, North and South. The Middle East, home of Christianity, is now only...
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Vancouver School of Theology sails into financial rock
The Vancouver School of Theology has been suffering financially for years. For some reason a massive property development project that began more than a decade ago never brought in the promised...
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‘Casual’ Vancouver church demands strict sexual ethics
The church news release contained a free bag of coffee beans and a four-gigabyte flash drive. The promotional package, sent out by AHA Creative Strategies, boasted of two “casual” and...
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UPDATE: Which Canadian Christians most liberal on assisted suicide, abortion?
UPDATE July 13: Conservative government appeals B.C. Supreme Court decision allowing assisted suicide to United Church woman (see below) Despite stereotypes that Christians are ‘conservative,’ members...
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Canadians not ‘mad’ at churches, just too busy for them: Pollster
Most Canadians don’t apparently hate Catholic and Protestant churches, even though membership has markedly declined since the early 1960s and Christians often take their knocks in the media and...
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A rough guide to Christianity’s three camps
Christianity’s three camps: the essentials; Conservatives get most of the attention, but Christians have other ways of looking at God and moral issues Vancouver Sun ARCHIVES Saturday, July 24, 2010...
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Liberal Protestantism ‘eclipsed by own success’
Robert Bellah says liberal Protestantism has infiltrated and transformed mainstream secular humanist culture, which is a major reason its churches are in gradual decline. That was one of the last...
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VST “Castle” will convert to economics from spirituality
One of the oldest and most elegant buildings on the University of B.C. campus will soon be switched from the study of spirituality to economics. The stone-faced Vancouver School of Theology, built in...
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B.C. Christians a wildly varied bunch: Poll 2
Christians in B.C. do not come in cookie-cutter uniformity. There is a great deal of variation and disagreement among respondents to an Insights West who said they are Christians. Indeed, the poll...
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