“Hands of worship: A conversation with a pastor for the deaf”
Read a Sept. 14, 2013, story from Mid-Missouri Public Radio about a Baptist church in Jefferson City, Mo., that holds services for the deaf.
Category: Beliefs & practices
Institute Church and Judaism – Humboldt-Universität Berlin
The institute Church and Judaism is part of the evangelical church in Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz. The Institute sponsors students of theology as well as theologians working in Jerusalem. Scientific, educational and more general periodicals are published and the institute works with nationwide committees and stimulates research into the general field of Church and Judaism.
“Half of evangelicals believe prayer can heal mental illness”
A Sept. 17, 2013, article details the findings of a LifeWay Research survey on Americans’ beliefs about mental illness and the role of faith in curing it.
Toronto Board of Rabbis
The Toronto Board of Rabbis organizes rabbis in the Toronto area for educational events and radio/television appearances.
Canadian Council for Reform Judiasm
The Canadian Council for Reform Judaism and the URJ Canada Steering Committee represent 25 Reform Congregations from Montreal to Vancouver with over 30,000 affiliated members.
Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre of Jewish Studies
The Kurt-Schubert-Institute of Jewish Studies offers a graduate program in Jewish Studies in the Czech Republic.
“How does it work? A crash course on the Southern Baptist Convention”
Towers Online, the news service of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has a primer about the SBC and its annual meeting.
“About One-in-Six Americans Are Baptist”
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has a graphic showing that one in six Americans are Baptists. The graphic breaks that figure down by the various Baptist denominations.