globalised christianity. he turned a small jewish sect into a world religion how did he do it against all adversity and who was this superman of antiquity. at least that's what i want to find out the hosts of. the search begins in jerusalem. pilgrims visit the church of the holy sepulture all year around. today christianity is the world's largest religion it's easy to forget that the christians were originally only one of many jewish splinter groups which could very easily have come to an early end with the death of its leader. his name was the son of joseph. we know him as jesus of nazareth. a few followers remained loyal to jesus after he died on the cross but soon after the crucifixion there was talk of the resurrected one and the second coming. for paul such talk was heresy and blasphemy. paul was a very pious and like all pious jews he eagerly awaited the coming of the messiah that it's messiah however was expected to be a powerful figure and the assertion that jesus was the messiah was simply grotesque

different topics to try to help christian live in modernity as faithful christians. have are so much from him about my own faith in the western tradition by listening to those interviews he is incredibly learned this is his h anniversary year. when i travel and meet other people who discover large-scale we talk about how formative it has been telling us the right books to read or the people to pay attention to i would encourage all of you. if you haven't heard of it look it up it is breathtaking in such an important ministry he is running it in charlottesville surrounded by books and music and thinking and i tell everybody i can about his book he is incredibly literate and intelligent and he makes big ideas comprehensible to ordinary people. i cannot say nothing about him. thank you all so much it is a great pleasure to be here. [applause] mac i would be remiss if i didn't say another place you could go to get information and read is the american conservative where he is a regular contributor. go check out their website they have some great stuff and i believe their

today christianity is the world's largest religion it's easy to forget that the christians were originally only one of many jewish splinter groups which could very easily have come to an early end with the death of its leader. his name was the issue of son of joseph. we know him as jesus of nazareth. a few followers remained loyal to jesus after he died on the cross but soon after the crucifixion there was talk of the resurrected one and the second coming. for paul such talk was heresy and blasphemy. i'm paul was a very pious and like old highest use he eagerly awaited the coming of the messiah this messiah however was expected to be a powerful figure and the assertion that jesus was the messiah was simply grotesque for paul the power to him he was a madman and a rabble rouser. as a young man paul had come to jerusalem from his home town of tarsus in modern day turkey. today he is also known by his jewish name of saul of tarsus. there he had joined the ferris sees a group of pious jews. they believe that all jews had to obey the six hundred thirteen myths of what or commandments without ex

was he a believer or an unbeliever, a christian radius -- christian or a deist?why does why does it matter. for over a century after his death, most people took it for granted that he was a practicing christian. a revised view of washington began to take hold in the 1930's. it suggested that washington was an unbeliever or at most a deist. in 2006, this thesis was challenged by several books that came out that year, one by michael novak and jana novak called "washington's god." the other was a thousand page tomb by peter lillback called "george washington's sacred fire" and it became a national bestseller. washington, you will recall, has been called the father of our country, a man for the ages. some have called him one of the greatest men that any nation has ever brought forth. so it matters a great deal what he stood for and what he believed. what sets dr. lillback's book apart from many literary works on washington was the exhaustive research probing his writings, washington's journals, his letters, manuscripts, sermons that he listened to, and insights of th

topics to try to help christians live in modernity as faithful christians. i've learned so much from him about my own faith and about the western tradition. he's an incredibly learned man and he's been getting this for 25 years. when i travel we talk about how formative it has been for us until he has the right folks to read and write people to pay attention to, so i would encourage all of you to go look it up. it's run by ken myers near charlottesville and his country studio. he's a prophet in our time, incredibly literate man, intelligent man and he makes big ideas comprehensible to ordinary people. i cannot say enough good things about him. thank you so much it is a pleasure to be here. [applause] i would be remiss if i didn't say another place you can do to get information and greed is the american conservative, where he's a regular contributor, so go check out the website. they have some great stuff and i believe the executive director is around here somewhere. and czechoslovakia they might have referred to it as the swamp and it also exist also exists

christian pop bands make christian pop music that much is clear but not all religious musicians necessary sing about religion at least not in germany and this topic spot special we want to know how much when it is there in german pop music. class palin headlined this event in stuttgart to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation of the electro pop jewish who are also a couple of stage has performed at church events in the past how important this christianity in their lives is a puzzle. this is the way we grew up and how we were bringing the city of the soul so i think all songs transport a certain sort of friendliness start from the music i'm happy it's important for me to have something to hold on to something to believe in god and i think that faith in organized religion are two different pains that shouldn't get mixed up for me it's important to have faith and i live it in my everyday life as a person i've never ever. in germany religion is a private matter may not oceangoing me should greens he works as a radio host for commands catholic station i'm just written a book o

christianity is not an interloper. christians helped create the public square. that is why it is important. presidents, washington uses that phrase. he knew everything he did as president would establish a precedent for all who came after him. his freedom to be who he was as believer and how he dealt with those that disagreed with his faith establishes a pattern that should be held to it today. it is appropriate for the man that has the seat of power to be a believer like washington who can also give great latitude to those that do not believe what he believes. critical for every president that follows washington. implication.dview ideas matter. the founding era created certain ideas of republican government. implication. ideas matter. we need to know those ideas even if we disagree with them or want to change them. our world view must take them squarely on and engage them carefully. ideas matter. this is what washington was doing with his christian understanding. christianing conceptions of reality with his perspective on government and constitutional republic

you see it everywhere in the christian world. it is displayed on graves it is a trademark and an ornament. it crowns the highest mountains. yet people have always viewed the cross with revulsion and as a contradiction for the crucifixion combines two seemingly irreconcilable entities cruelty and our yearning for the divine. get out of the i associate grace thanksgiving and or with the cross and of course he's going to have you for me i have ambivalent feelings as i was there's i'm not religious so it doesn't speak to me as strict charge people thought i know the meaning of the cross but i just view it as somebody boy good for me the main issue for me was how to take the truth just action and my intention is simply to make this subject accessible just none of us really know what it's like and all what it isn't like east or the mission is dismissed me i didn't. want to give the bits you guys wet is our relationship to the cross but again. it's where i grew up in the so-called christian west everybody relates to it that's how we gre

that means as a christian that is open to talking about these things. it helps in talking about chris yant in a very -- christianity in a positive way. i've been very happy with that outcome. >> in the bay area there are interfaith opportunities and experiences. you know, if someone was wanting to just take a first step and attend and participate in something, can you make a suggestion? >> well, yes. [ laughter ]. >> or place they could go to to find out. >> first of all, is there an interfaith council -- >> yes. >> in your community. mostarea skyped of interfaith council -- some kind of interfaith council. >> let's put a shout out to the san francisco interfaith council. >> see what's going on and even then contact them and say, you know, i'm really interested in doing something, what's out there and i think anybody from those councils would be more than happy to get back in touch with you and say, well, here's some things or what are you employed in? are you interested in volunteering at a -- we had a habitat for humanity volunteer cleaning up a commu

not because it is not christians.of course, we met with this legal aid society basically that helps these young girls are kidnapped and forced into conversion into marriage. and it is crazy. there's a woman that we met, we met some of the young girls themselves as a center tries to rehabilitate them and it is really terrible. there was a woman, christian mother of four who was kidnapped by a man, an adult woman. forced to convert and bury him to the christian husband, he saw a police report. the police refused to do anything of course to follow up on the case. the woman managed to somehow get away and return somehow to her actual husband. and so the muslim man filed a police report, filed a complaint that this man was holding his wife. i mean, that is how pervasive it gets sometimes. again i spent the whole night i could tell you. we are concerned and we are one small voice but everybody here can be a voice. and pakistan, which was 24 percent, we need to get more but the pakistani flag is green with a white bar and at

christian countries in the world?any people think that one of the causes of divorce is only adultery, it's not true. selfishness. greed, if you are selfish, don't marry. marriage is never about you. if you marry the woman because she is very slim, and she is very wonderfully made, and if you are motive and reason for marrying a woman is because she looks a particular way, when she start making babies and changing, the reason for the marriage is over. >> moesha is an actress and model who gained a huge following on social media by flaunting her sizeable assets. and like many women in ghana, she keeps herself primped and polished, anticipating what the day might hold. >> well, that is nice. will i get a man here with that color nails? give me your, give me your i'm just meeting you and i want to attract you look. >> like i have a big bum, so i just walk up and down. >> are ghana women as look obsessed as the women in the west? >> yes, they are, they care for their skin, and their body. anything that has to do with the s

and the spirit of early christian thought seeking the face of god and the christians as the romans saw them and then remembering the christian past. he's taught at fordham, notre dame, in rome, the gregorian university in rome and province college. it is a real pleasure that have robert lewis wilkin speaking on the religious origin of religious freedom. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. it's customary to say how pleased one is to be here. people said to me, how far did you come? and i said it happens that i live down the street at 13174th street and my wife drove me over here this afternoon and she came and instead of driving me home she said it's .8 miles, so i'm very pleased to have the beginning of a relationship to this fine, new museum. those of you who have been through the museum know that there is an exhibit on the great awakening and the great awakening was a powerful period of religious renewal in the united states and the great preacher george whitfield was a spearhead for this awakening. and the great awakening spread all through the country to bring an inner conversion

i am thirty years more which christiane had dragged the danes into proved a political desire. asta for the country even so the king was seen as a military hero. mentally wounded so his retinue believed the king collapsed upon the deck of his ship the trinity if he beheld him was frozen with torah which christian stood up once again found his shattered eye and called upon his men to fight the good fight. in king christiane's day ross kildow was merely the seat of the diocese it was no longer the residence of the danish kings as it had been from the eleventh to fifteenth century as nowadays well skilled is effectively a suburb of copenhagen this it has come mainly to see the viking ships that were raised from the field and restored the bells in the margaret tower still strike daily as they always have at ten at three at five and at seven o'clock. the danish monarchs are no longer involved in the business of government and have abandoned some of the old home as the most recent tomb dating from one thousand nine hundred five shows it is privilege enough to be interred in the wall

christianity. >> your art is about what? our ancestors left a message for us, which is -- which means going back to your roots. and i do believe that our future is behind us. >> she practices west african beliefs that were in ghana centuries before christians arrive. christians call it demonic. >> know the word voodoo here. what is it here? >> voodoon. >> what does it mean? >> it means spirits. >> believers say they are surrounded by a world of spirits. and these spirits can be called upon to intercede through rituals and sacrifiacial practices. >> simply put, it being one with nature. >> and one of the songs is called voodoo -- >> yeah, voodoo -- >> burning with all of your desire. ♪ i see it in your eyes >> started off with my friends from other tribes and guys saying that their mothers told them to not deal with away women. >> like women like you? >> they said, voodoo is too strong and we make them to fret their families from the men's perspective. they said, we have something going on down there. >> we call it voodoo --.

that the fusion of christian -- christianity and enlightenment thinking turned too much on the latter. that america is too much john locke. i trust you know who john locke is. the problem with classical liberalism isn't that we are doing the american experiment wrong, that we have lost our way and forgotten the vision of the founders, but that the american experiment is fatally flawed and bound to fail. they reject classical liberalism in principle and especially its emphasis on individual rights. i except that the individualist tendencies of classical liberalism needs to be balanced with other values, such as community and authority. but not because classical liberalism is itself poison. indeed, i think all conservatives agree that individual rights are not enough. the question is whether they are actually the problem. these thinkers constitute a weup or school of thought -- have today a constellation of figures on the right with different ways and for different reasons, question political liberty, economic liberty, and religious liberty. one of the most famous critics on the right o

the any christian theology that does not affirm the he minute he of those on the bottom is not a christian elegy. this book really did shave the whole academic world. it shook the church world. as he said, if you want to know or the message of jesus christ is in 20th century america, it is black power. it is this affirmation of black humanity that says that everything -- in a country that says that everything that is black is a negative. it was taking that which was at the bottom and saying that this is where god is in the world. it is really hard to overstate its impact on the discourse at that moment. juan: dr. kelly brown? >> i can only affirm what dr. warnock said. one must understand that dr. cone could not understand how anyone could be doing any kind of christian theology at that time, this time when black people are simply fighting for their dignity, a time when dr. king had been assassinated and you have christian theologians doing theology, not even talking about the black struggle for liberation. he said, how can you be a christian and i do that? not only did you have christian

it's not just christians, buddhists have these. i'm a christian pastor. for me, it's working with the intrachristian conversation. i hear so often, especially clergy will say, interfaith is great but we need to have the intrafaith conversation because people in our congregations have all kinds of ideas and beliefs and thoughts about these things. i thought it's time for us to get together and talk among ourselves about how we work with these matters. it's an important thing to do. in this day and age we don't have the luxury of not engaging with our brothers and sisters of other traditions but then how do we bring that back in to our own tradition, what questions do we come back with, what insights do we come back with, how do we receive the gifts of other traditions and incorporate them in to our own. >> are you looking, is it a matter of what do we have in common with the other faith traditions? it's that. >> both. >> it's both. >> and i would imagine then it's reflecting upon our own tradition and what are we learning about our own identity as christia

i group if a christian home.parents took us to church and raids our family according to the bible. and it has served us well. i'm blessed to be born in a country that our founders built on principles they found in this book. i have been blessed by this book in multiple ways. we wanted to encourage others to consider this book as well. we wanted to inspire them to engage with it. judge jeanine: they say 90% of american homes have within them a bible. yet it seems this generation unlike previous generations has never been more distanced from the bible. why do you think that is? >> we are probably more ignorant of this book than we have been as a nation. we don't teach it in our schools as we once did. it was regularly taught in our schools so people grew up knowing it. our founders would speak from the bible and they wouldn't have to give chapter and verse because everybody knew what they were talking about. today you make a quote from the bible and many people have no idea what the source. even common phrases in o

, but about restoring christian. let me counter one movement with another. largely populated. culminated inhat the american council and american freedom. the critics are correct to worry about rights and rights come to me -- mean the freedom to do whatever you feel like doing. the best versions of classical liberalism have never accepted that. embodiedct of you is in the old distinction and our language, which is what i like to teach my students, between liberty and license. license is the freedom to do what you want. liberty is the freedom to pursue the good. important about it is that it points us to a proper understanding of right by grounding the right of religious freedom in the good of religion. virtueare justified in of the good they allow us to pursue. -- we cannotan now understand which rights are until we understand what rights are for. recover a proper account of rights we must start with a proper account. once we know what is truly good for our nature, what is truly part of human flourishing, then we can

the any christian theology thaht does not affirm the he minute he of those on the bottom is not a christian elegy. this book really did shave the whole academic world. it shook the church world. as he said, if you want to know or the message of jesus christ is in 20th century america, it is black power. it is this affirmation of black humanity that says that everything -- in a country that says that everything that is black is a negative. it was taking that which was at the bottom and d saying that ths is where g god is in the world. it is really hard to overstate its impact on the discourse at that moment. juan: dr. kelly brown? >> i can only affirm what dr. warnock said. one must understand that dr. cone could not understand how anyone could be doing any kind of christian theology at that time, this time when black people are simply fighting for their dignity, a time when dr. king had been assassinated and you have christian theologians doing theology, not even talking about the black struggle for liberation. he said, how can you be a christian and i do that? not only did you have christi

and peaceableness of the christian religion. john lock begins his letter concerning toleration by arguing that he submits that toleration, he believes, is the chief characteristic mark of the true church. so that's the kind of doctrine argument. and then another very common argument especially in a europe that struggled with the wars of religion for a very long period of time, and that argument was that the only way to solve europe's consistent, chronic divisions and warfare over religion was to introduce religious freedom. to simply allow people to believe whatever they wanted. now thomas jefferson in the statute for religious freedom does not make any of those arguments central. what he does, instead, is argue that religious freedom is an irreducible, nonnegotiable demand of our human nature period. he doesn't argue for religious freedom on grounds of expediency. he doesn't argue for religious freedom on the ground that it's going to lead to outcomes that he likes. he doesn't introduce a results oriented argument for religious

they are bashing christianity for giving christians an unfair privilege.fessor, you say there is christian privilege here. is there not christian privilege in the middle east, is there? >> we are talking about the united states right now. but there is christian you privilege around the world in many ways. but i would like to correct you. it's not bashing christianity, it's raising issues of the ways in which christians automatically have this unearned privilege just by being christian in the united states. jesse: what what that privilege be? >> a lot of ways you privilege manifests itself. in the 19 -- the 1840s, a theorist went around the united states and he wrote this great book call "democracy in america." he discovered there is a paradox in some ways, that the united states positioned itself around the world as a country which promoted itself as religious pluralism. but he found that the christian churches had so much power, that in many what is it could be considered to be the first institution of politics because it had so much power and weight on p

christianity and for music. what did john pop musicians think about religion deeply devout hip hop on a mission from fellow. bubble gum. the watts needed b. but even temporary music inspired tried to define topics for the next. crimea a fascinating melting pot of people and cultures. a place that's filled with history and his witness to the rise and fall of. the strategic territory that has been fought over for centuries i come to the residence of crimea to use their identity. crimea through the age. of forty five minutes on. what does a football loving country need to reach its goals. we'll tell you german soccer made it to the top. you know web space. dot com. football made in germany. hello and welcome to a pop export special for they we're devoting ourselves to one topic religion in pop music we want to know how do christianity and music go together in germany and which musicians have the christian background here's what's coming up. the band leader and peace that give us a musical shirt.

in the mid fifteenth century king christiane the first to build the chapel of the three kings it was intended that an order of knights would convene there. but in the event the builder was laid to rest in it he and his queen lie under a plain stone in a floor. the grander tombs were commissioned by his successors those of christiane the third and frederick the second crafted in antwerp are considered the finest renee's on sculptures in denmark. i am the adjoining chapel was built for christiana through these ruled the days for sixty years till sixteen forty eight and is considered one of the nation's preeminent terminix there were meant to be colored nationalism of the nineteenth century added many a lavish florist and i want to mentation to his chaplain. thirty years mall which christiane had dragged the dames into proved a political disaster for the country even so the king was seen as a military is my mutually wounded so his retinue believed the king collapsed upon the deck of his ship the trinity if he beheld him was frozen with horror it christiane stood up once again found his

that's what these christians are praying for. they.i hope that the christian quarter will no longer need armed protection. but it is not only religious minorities who have difficulties back to karate and a run of the mill residential complex the residents have found refuge behind these walls they want to show their faces their families could recognize them track them down and kill them or. send who has been living in the home for two years her offense she complained about the infidelity of the man she'd been forced to marry in her father's eyes she brought shame on the family. tried to shoot me twice but he didn't have the heart so he asked my thirteen year old brother to pull the trigger he wanted to do it. but who's about to shoot me. my mother intervened and i managed to escape someone told me about this whole thing which is my father and brother don't know i'm here. would you go there to be your but i'm still afraid they'll track me down here come here and kill me when you was an american me anyway i'm never going back to them agai

massey worked in this christian school as a security guard.because you could we get a lot of drivers who say they'll kill us or vasser is released they also sent death threats to the judges that's why the case is taking so long everyone fears for their lives both of them got their. the last footage of as six years ago at a press conference with a politician campaigning for her release. two neighbors had accused of having blasphemed the prophet mohammed a capital offense the accusations are completely untrue the politician stressed. that. his own bodyguard murdered him a short time later on the open road. as he and her family are pinning their hopes on their lawyer he is a muslim and human rights expert he took over the case out of personal conviction and compassion. all of this mission a straight the story nobody said mean that you had done something great in pakistan those are your putting you and your family in the danger of life for him the case is clear according to islamic law and no one can be convicted on such weak evidence just. diffic

christians in this country. can make a strong argument that in many ways christians are being marginalized in this society. jesus said you will have persecution in this world but it is ridiculous to talk about christian privilege in america. heather: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. we will be right back, stay with us. ♪ count the money ♪ when you are sitting at the table ♪ there will be time enough for counting ♪ when the dealing is done ♪ heather: live shot in phoenix, arizona. a little kenny rogers. kenny rogers stepping offstage. the 79 you make is expected to be okay. doctors say the star needed to cancel all the components of his farewell tour. i didn't want to take forever to retire, i thoroughly enjoy this opportunity to say farewell to fans over the course of the past two years. carrie underwood revealing her fate for the first time since an injury in november. ♪ the country star broke her wrist needing 50 stitches after a severe fall outside her home. she described it as a random freak accid

engage in, it is in fact the core of the christian tradition and the core of christian faith. indeed one of the leading voices in sojourners. host: your front-page piece for the april issue is how evangelicals became white, looking at the arc of where the evangelical is in america. what motivated you to write the article? briefly, what have you found? guest: one of the things that motivated me to write the article was the fact that so lentwhite evangelicals their support in terms of voting to the make america great again vision during the presidential campaign. over 85% ofwell white evangelicals supported this vision and this presidential campaign. that seems to be a contradiction given that evangelicals have typically been considered values voters. they placee that high priority on things such as personal morality. there seems to be a contradiction in terms of white evangelicals supporting a who seemed to compromise the values evangelicals claim to support. have to look at is the fact that the support was not simply for a candidate, it was for the vision this candidate put fo

many christians in iraq can pay pray together rather at easter for the first time since the defeat ofeisel in the northern city of mosul the armed group destroyed many churches and christians fled the area but now the community is on a mission to rebuild itself but as emraan hashmi reports it's not without challenges. for many easter is a time to mark the resurrection of jesus christ it's a time of rebirth and reflection and for the christians of home to neo in the nineveh plain in iraq's second city of mosul it's particularly relevant the christian community here is going through its own rebirth when eisel took over the nineveh plains in two thousand and fourteen it tried to destroy the christian community. some fifty five thousand people fled isis violent role from hamdani alone when the group was defeated late last year they started to come back and this is what they found destroyed churches and homes. there is no government support at all it seems that the government does not care about the people here the people here are helpless people return to a hamdani and they only see their

millions of christians around the world are celebrating easter sunday. pictures of what's happening right now at st peter's square in vatican city the pope pope francis is holding mass for thousands of program on friday during his good friday address he warned that wars poverty and selfishness are leaving people marginalized all around the world. the last remaining staff have left the u.s. consulate and russia's second largest city st petersburg as a diplomatic fallout continues over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. also set a saturday deadline for the closure as part of its response to the expulsion of more than one hundred fifty russian diplomats around the world the u.k. accuses the kremlin of being behind the nerve agent attack on scriptural moscow denies any involvement of the governor of russia central kemmer over a region has resigned over the mall fire that killed sixty people last week a month said it was the right conscious and only troop decision russia's investigative committee says fire exits at the mall we

and christianity is no exception to that rule. >> the umbrella of modern christianity includes over 800illion protestants and 1.2 billion catholics worldwide. but in the 16th century, catholicism is the law of the land. the is a ferment of devotion, deep, deep piety in europe. everyone went to church out of conviction. >> almost the entire population of europe devoutly follows rome's catholic doctrine. and the pope is at the head of it all. in the 16th century there had been a series of very worldly popes who loved power. >> all earthly institutions are flawed. and the renaissance popes got caught up with power. >> it is not surprising that people who loved power took it. but as papal power swells, so does a cultural of greed and corruption. the tenets of christ begin to fall by the wayside as popes spend kpoexorbitant money in th name of luxury, excess, and absolute power. >> popes during the renaissance bring a sense of majesty into the papacy that had not existed before. even though we would probably say, that their methods were a little bit ruthless. ♪ and in 1513, fopope leo x take

millions of christians around the world are celebrating easter sunday. there are live pictures from st peter's square and vatican city where pope francis is you can see is holding mass for thousands of pilgrims on fridays during his good friday address he warned that wars poverty and selfishness are leaving people marginalized around the world. the governor of russia's central. region has resigned over the shopping center fire that killed sixty people last week. said it was the right conscious and only true decision an investigation found the fire exits at the mall had been illegally blocked the public address system was not switched on and the alarm system was broken many of those who died were children and investigators say some of them had been locked inside a cinema. in the southern hills region of russia the toucher river feeds into a water system that serves hundreds of thousands of people yet it is considered one of the world's most polluted waterways spreading radioactive contamination all the way to the arctic ocean john a whole report from russ

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