The highways leading to Atlantic City, New Jersey are lined with billboards advertising the city’s many gam­bling establishments. But one billboard advertising “world peace” stands out. The way to achieve it, the billboard proclaims, is to join the Baha’i Faith. While not many sects lease billboards alongside major high­ways to attract new converts, many have [...]

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 1 (2003). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Christophobia- SYNOPSIS Western universities claim to promote religious diversity and freedom of speech, but in practice Christianity is often ridiculed or censured. Openness to discussion and debate [...]

There is great social pressure today to conform to whatever cultural liberals decide is “politically correct” (PC). PC issues are often tied to discrimination — seemingly all forms of discrimination are considered wrong, from racial bias (which is wrong) to moral judgments against homosexuality. This past summer, at the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions [...]

As has been well said, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” The stark reality of this sentiment was borne out in 1973 when Christians quietly passed by a major battle in the war against abortion. Two and a half decades later the far-reaching impact of that [...]

Technoshamanism- Summary Spiritual explorers are increasingly looking to cyberspace to meet the needs of the soul. Many neopagans, occultists, and New Agers deem the technologies of cyberspace as fitting media for their magical experiments and rituals and view the Internet as a mystical plane of being. For some in this movement, which has roots in [...]

Frequently in America today, radicalism of any type is viewed as wrong and even repugnant. People with strongly held beliefs, especially of the “fundamentalist” sort, are labeled as fanatics or religious zealots. For many Americans there are no spiritual absolutes, and thus those with firmly held sacred beliefs are viewed as spiritual bigots or religious [...]

This article first appeared in the Volume 24 / Number 1 / 2001 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “If we slide into a modern, high-tech version of the Dark Ages, we will have done it to ourselves without the assistance [...]