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Jim Congdon

Posted: December 28, 2007 4:22 PM

CT’s list is curious, at best. We can overlook the quirky choice of #1 story (”Taliban takes Korean missions team hostage”) though it’s one that few Christians know–so it won’t affect us greatly, though the editor says that was the basis for the selections. We can even forgive a Billy Graham-founded magazine the suspicious separation of Ruth Graham’s death (#5: “promoted to glory”!) from the deaths of Jerry Falwell and D.J. Kennedy (#7: “Religious Right lions” who simply “pass away”). But what invalidates the list is that the CT editors appear to have concluded it a month or so ago, for it leaves out two of the biggest events of the year, the gun slayings in Colorado at YWAM and New Life Church, and the November “Stem Cell breakthrough” discovery that human skin cells can behave like embryonic stem cells, so human embryos no longer need to be destroyed. TIME magazine ranks this as the #8 news story of the year in the entire world, but CT overlooks it entirely, while selecting a simil

Doug	Posted: December 28, 2007 8:28 AM

I am shocked by all the bitterness I read. I am shocked at how some of you, who appear to be mere shills of the democrat party or possibly Ron Paul. just want to bad mouth George Bush and the war in Iraq, regurgitating the same party lines of the dems. How about Darfur? How about the continued suppresion and murder in Myanmar and China and Tibet? Our last president stood by and watched the slaughter of millions in Rwanda, we can no longer allow Darfur to continue, but alas the world does not seem to care. We need to care as Christians and no one seems to. Stop the bitterness and hatred, love one another. Happy New Year.

Chingy

Posted: December 27, 2007 4:18 PM


#11 Jesus Christ once again fails to return to Earth.

Gary	Posted: December 27, 2007 9:35 AM

I agree with Jim. No mention of Iraq and the sacrifices being made by our troops. Please, never forget; All gave some, and some gave all. There are so many stories that aren't mentioned. Like it or not, the tv show American Idol has become a springboard for several Christian artists who are enjoying new careers. Mandisa and Chris Daughtry come to mind, and the Christian concerts that are held at major league baseball parks before games. How about the Pope visiting a Russian Orthodox Church, the first Pope in a thousand years to do so. Let's get relief help to the ten thousand plus children living in the sewers in Bucharest, Romania. The ongoing slaughter going on in Africa. Maybe I'm reaching too far, and Im not saying I disagree with your list, but there are other things going on in the world.

GaryS

Posted: December 25, 2007 8:52 PM

As we sometimes divide books into fiction and non fiction it might be good to break such stories into international and domestic. As SteveR said, the big stories internationally don't seem to get much play at CT. The huge growth of the international church and the move from Northern Whites to Southern Browning of the church has to garner some attention. Along with the Pentecostal and Charismatic flowering all over the world and its replacing Mainliners and Evangelical cessationists is a very big story. Even Krista Tippet covered it twice. I also agree with him that the Reveal studies were bigger here than some of your list. Also Rick Warren's leap into Africa and AIDS with Bono has to eclipse the abortion ban and the NRB dust up. Conflicts among Fighting Fundies and Evangelicals over Global Warming and AIDS is simply a continuance of the move that brought CT into being. The discipleship/spiritual growth is key especially now that Willow's Model has crashed. Can't you feel it?

steveo

Posted: December 20, 2007 10:42 PM


if you monkey jews want to maim and murder in the middle east, why not come out of your closet and declare your allegiance to jezebel and molech? "a purpose driven life indeed!"

Steve R

Posted: December 18, 2007 11:54 PM

While I understand that many of the stories listed were of great interest to many readers in 2007 and had a "for the moment" impact, I was surprised (if not shocked) by the absence of Willow Creek's presentation of their congregational survey results that indicated that their ministry model, which many, many churches have followed at least in part, isn't nearly as effective as they'd believed, to say the least. Talk about events that WILL shape evangelical life, thought and mission in the years to come. Maybe if the evaluation and reporting had been done by someone outside the church looking in instead of humbly and honestly by the leadership of Willow Creek itself it would have been more newsworthy.

Steve Willicombe

Posted: December 18, 2007 10:16 PM


Not a very impressive "shaping" list for me. I do like Stan's comments above though.

Stan	Posted: December 18, 2007 5:00 PM

Personally I think the self referential nature of Christianity is having the most significant effect on our churches today. We spend most of our time looking at each other, preaching at each other, selling to each other and critcizing each other. Christianity is largely irrelevant to ordinary people because the people inside the church have no idea or concern about how the people outside the church think or perceive their religiosity. Christians need to look outward and learn again what is really going on in the hearts and minds of the rest of the population.

Diane

Posted: December 18, 2007 12:21 PM

Mitt Romney's candidacy . . Jerry Falwell cut through all the uninformed guessing games, and got right to the heart of the matter when Glenn Beck asked him whether he could vote for a Mormon for President. Falwell replied in a heartbeat, [paraphrasing] "Well we are not electing a pastor or Sunday school teacher . . we have plenty of those already in our churches and schools . . We are electing a President whose moral values reflect ours, and Mitt Romney is a good man, and his moral values line up with mine, far more than Hillary Clinton's do, and obviously I'm not going to vote for her." And that, folks, is what it all will boil down to on election day. It's going to be a close vote count again, and the Republican has to be able to beat Clinton or Obama. Huckabee is great but probably can't win nationally. I'm more concerned about Clinton's "religion" and about Obama's Black-centric (racist?) church's mission statement, than about Romney and his proven trustworthiness and record

Dave Dorman

Posted: December 18, 2007 11:52 AM


Mitt Romney's candidacy deserves more careful mention for what it implies about where Mormonism is today, and for its impact on what faith itself means politically. And the big story of the year: the toppling of the hegemony of form criticism in Gospels studies, with the publication of Richard Bauckham's "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses," and "The Jesus Legend" by Eddy and Boyd.

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