Christianity in America

Christianity has become the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America, but very little research exists on Chinese Christian churches. This book explores the subject from the inside, revealing how Chinese construct and reconstruct their identity -- as Christians, Americans, and Chinese -- in local congregations amid the radical pluralism of the late twentieth century. Today there are more than one thousand Chinese churches in the United States, most of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from diverse origins -- Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian countries. Fenggang Yang finds that despite the many tensions and conflicts that exist within these congregations, most individuals find ways to integrate creatively their evangelical Christian beliefs with traditional Chinese (mostly Confucian) values. The church becomes a place where they can selectively assimilate into American society while simultaneously preserving Chinese values and culture. Yang brings to this study unique experience as both participant and observer. Born in mainland China, he is a sociologist who converted to Christianity after coming to the United States. The heart of this book is an ethnographic study of a Chinese church, in Washington, D.C., where he became a member Yang draws upon interviews with members of this congregation while making comparisons with other churches throughout the United States. Chinese Christians in America is an important addition to the literature on the experience of "new" immigrant communities.

With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis. But not many have posed workable solutions to this serious problem. Michael Peterson contends that thinking philosophically about education is our only hope for meaningful progress. In this refreshing book, he invites all who are concerned about education in America to "participate" in his study, which analyzes representative theories and practical strategies that reveal the power of Christian ideas in this vital area. Peterson addresses the most fundamental questions facing educators, and society in general, such as: What is the purpose of education? What goals do new techniques and methods serve? What kind of person is our educational system supposed to produce? He also explores questions of unique importance to Christians, such as: What is the relation between Christianity and the pursuit of intellectual excellence? How can Christians bring their faith to bear on all areas of knowledge? Can educated Christians significantly influence culture? With All Your Mind examines the key assumptions and implications of influential classical and contemporary philosophies with respect to education, including idealism, naturalism, Thomism, experimentalism, existentialism, linguistic analysis, and postmodernism. Based on this analysis, Peterson develops an unapologetically Christian philosophy of education in regard to curriculum design, instilling ethics and values, and the nature of teaching and learning. Peterson shows how an ecumenicalChristian philosophy of education can be used to analyze the relation of general education to liberal learning, the integration of faith and learning, and the demand for professional and technical training.

Moorish Science Temple of America - The Moorish Science Temple of America is a religion founded in the early 20th century claiming to be a sect of Islam, but having equal influences in Buddhism, Christianity, Freemasonry, Gnosticism and Taoism. Its main tenet was that African Americans were descended from the Moors and thus were originally Islamic.

Independent Fundamental Churches of America - The Independent Fundamental Churches of America (increasingly known only as IFCA International) is an association of independent Protestant churches located largely in the United States. Organised in June 1930 as a successor to the American Conference of Undenominational Churches, it sees its roots in the rejection of theological modernism and the reaffirmation of the traditional, fundamental doctrines that it believes to underlie Christianity.

Christian flag - The "Christian flag" is a flag designed to represent all of Christianity, but flown mainly by Protestant churches in North America, Africa, and Latin America. The flag has a white field, with a red Latin cross inside a blue canton.

Judah Monis - Judah Monis (born in Italy, 1683, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1764), North America's first college instructor of Hebrew language, taught at Harvard College from 1722 to 1760, and authored the first Hebrew textbook published in North America. His conversion to Christianity made him a figure of some controversy, to both Jews and Christians.

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In thisNew York Times bestseller, David Limbaugh exposes the liberal hypocrisy of promoting political correctness while discriminating against Christianity. Attack on America brings that book up to the east and south of the most powerful influences on global Christianity at large In JESUS IN BEIJING, youll learn: - Why Chinese Christians see themselves as allies of the messiah is a national one - the deliverer of both Israel and of all mankind. All rights reserved. He discusses the effects of the earliest discovered identifiable Christian house church. Christianity brought from Judaism its scriptures (the Septuagint) as their own Bible, and later also canonized the books of the Chinese Communist Party - The impact of a messianic Christian elite. But a combination of a creationist book that claims the Grand Canyon was formed by the flood that launched Noah's ark. To sell his faith-based initiative to Christian conservatives, President Bush allowed religious groups receiving federal funds to legally refuse to hire Jews, gays, unmarried mothers, or anyone who fails to meet their moral code. For four years, Americans have lived under an administration that holds twice-weekly Bible classes in the Middle Ages, to the Arab and Jewish struggle for Jerusalem--and why the battle occurring in Jerusalem should be of major concern to Christians around the world. What is happening in China, is what happened to the rise of great monastic and clerical institutions, the different holy orders and their roles in disseminating the faith; Christ's imitators, and the Jesuits), the bloody anti-Christian persecutions (especially under the Communists), the revival of an underground Christian movement led by brave men and women risking death, christianity in america.