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…Islam Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion with an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide. This accounts for around 20 % of the world’s population and rates 2nd behind Christianity…

…leading to a fair amount of conflict. To begin with, rural people generally lived in small tight knit communities where everyone knew each other. In these communities everyone generally attended the same local Christian congregation and shared the same basic…

…achieved at the Workshop on the Human Genome Project. Perhaps, the most interesting and important aspect for a Christian is the meaning of this kind of advance. What, indeed, is Christianity's interest in such things as DNA and the Human Genome…

…and music. The dominant religion during this period was Christianity. The middle ages saw “the emergence … of Christian literary forms… a popular religious culture centred around processions, icons, and relics” (George Holmes 42). The crusades were wars…

…The fundamentals of Christian spirituality lie in the triune God that is the center of Christian faith. In Ronald Rolheiser's book, The Holy Longing, he strives to give the reader a deeper understanding of and ability to practice this Christian…

…as "blood- thirsty murders" that poisoned wells and killed Christian children for their bizarre Passover ritu! als. (Stirling 2:1) These were the stereotypes which Shakespeare's audience held in regard to Jews. Shakespeare himself had never seen a Jew but he goes…

…The major themes that show up in the letter to the Ephesians are those of building the body of Christ and Christian practice, unity, holiness in life, and responsibility in the household (Bowker, 429). The letter mentions the fact that the indwelling…

…, daughters do not have deep faiths in their fathers. Tired of her "hell" house, Jessica elopes with Lorenzo. Perhaps she does so to ameliorate her status in the orthodox world; she seeks conversion to Christianity in order to justify her hated past Jewish life…

…in a Creator. Millions of Christians and non-Christians believe there is a Creator of the universe and that scientific theories such as the theory of evolution do not conflict with belief in a Creator. However, fundamentalist Christians such as Ronald Reagan…

…. Dickinson loved to read “Flowers of North America,” along with other works by Hitchcock. She would attend his lectures, not knowing that one of his sermons would change her views on Christianity for the rest of her life. Pollitt writes that “In Dr. Hitchcock’s…