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• David Manuel: Boston media ignore Benny Hinn
  Boston MA (July 31, 2006) David Manuel writes: So – what happened when Benny Hinn came to town? History will settle it out, but it may not be premature to make a couple of observations. For two nights, some 18,000 people (I forgot to count the 2,000 chairs set up on the floor of Boston Garden) experienced a joy and a unity which many had not thought possible. And there were two major new cracks in the egg containing an eaglet called Awakening. [more...]
  
• David Manuel: Second night of Benny Hinn Crusade in Boston
  David Manuel writes: How to compare Thursday night and last night (July 28, 2006). . . . Once again, the joy was like exploding diamonds – Niagara Falls caught in the late afternoon sun. Once again, the unity was breathtaking – our hearts were beating as one, in synch with the Heart of Heaven. Once again, the power of the Holy Spirit was awesome – waves of people going down under it, including the pastors who at times looked like they were trying to remain upright on tilting ice. [more...]
  
• David Manuel: Opening night of Benny Hinn Crusade in Boston
  David Manuel files a special report for the friends of the Noon Hour (with thanks to John Whelan for his help): Last night (July 27, 2006) at the Boston Garden, we had a foretaste of the joy that might greet the Lord's return. [more...]
  
• Barna Group: Bible reading and church attendance are increasing in US
  The Barna Group observed ''significant'' and ''unusual'' increases in many measures of spiritual activity in the last year. A new survey found growth in a majority of the core religious behaviors. The combination of so many measures of spiritual activity growing at the same time is unusual, said George Barna, whose company has underwritten and conducted such research for more than 20 years. [more...]
  
• Congregation Lion of Judah: Video and Transcript: Lou Engle February 19, 2006
  

  Lou Engle

  In a recent presentation at Lion of Judah, Lou Engle explains his vision for the house of prayer: "I’ve had a dream today that humanistic philosophies of our universities be shaken by the house of prayer. What would happen if a house of prayer was raised up on the doorstep of Harvard with young patriots from all around New England? When God begins to remove professors or begins to convert them, when young Daniels begin to raise up, rather than submitting to their mentors who are demonized... Why do we have to be dominated by the philistine culture? God wants to go to war, not with anger but with words of wisdom from heaven to penetrate the darkness." (Read transcript) [COMMENTS]
  
• Boston Globe: Kim in Boston - Celebrating the love of life and God
  

  Kem

  Boston MA (Feb.21, 2006) When Motown recording artist Kem performed at the Berklee Performance Center on Sunday night, love was the point. It wasn't the ooh-baby-baby love of so many R&B smoothies, though. Kem sang about the committed love of two people. He talked about the love of community. Above all, he celebrated the love of life and God. [more...]
  
• Gordon- Conwell: Convocation February 8, 2006
  Stuart Rankin writes: GCTS convocation was a special occasion. There was a spirit of unity and worship present in that chapel room last Wednesday evening. It was a delight to be able to worship together with our brothers and sisters from the city. [more...]
  
• David Manuel: Astonished that over 1000 attended Unity Meeting at Tremont Temple
  David Manuel gives an account of the unity meeting at Tremont Temple on January 20, 2006 : "Astonishing is the word that comes to mind, to describe what happened at Tremont Temple Friday night. [more...]
  
• Harvard Crimson: Harvard Group seeks to help orphan
  Cambridge MA (Nov. 1, 2005) An inspiring story about a diverse group at Harvard united by a shared concern: As candy-seeking children traipsed across the city yesterday evening to celebrate Halloween, a group of 30 members of Harvard China Care (HCC) went trick-or-treating for a different reason: to save Chinese orphan Fu Jinjin’s life. [more...]
  
• NY Daily News: Preaching to a big choir
  New York NY (Oct. 14, 2005) You heard it here first: The 1.6 million evangelical Christians who live in New York City - a little-known political sleeping giant - are about to wake up and hit the streets to oppose gay marriage and the politicians who favor it. Early signs were on display at a forum held at the Harlem State Office Building this week, when the City Action Coalition, an alliance of evangelical, mostly inner-city, churches, threw down the gauntlet. The group's keynote speaker was Eugene Rivers who runs a nationally touted street ministry out of inner-city Boston. [COMMENTS]
  
• Christian Post: N.Y. Church Planting Movements Focus on Multiethnic Churches
  

  Rev. Mac Pier, founder of Concerts of Prayer Greater New York

  New York (Oct.8, 2005) On Thursday, two speakers captured the imaginations of an estimated 120 pastors who gathered to learn about how to plant multiethnic churches in the New York metropolitan area. "I believe in the multiethnic church. I believe that's what God wants to see," said Dr. David Ireland, who spoke during the quarterly pastoral gathering on church planting held at the American Bible Society’s New York headquarters on Oct. 6, 2005. [more...]
  
• Boston Globe: Rally against abortion draws 2,000 to Boston Common
  Boston MA (Oct.3, 2005) Under sunny October skies, roughly 2,075 people arrived at Boston Common yesterday to demonstrate their differing opinions on abortion. About 2,000 of them were there to denounce the practice. The other 75 came to demand that women keep the right to choose. It was Respect Life Sunday, the annual rally and walk that is sponsored by the Massachusetts Citizens for Life. It began 33 years ago, after the US Supreme Court made its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which sanctioned the legalization of abortion. [COMMENTS]
  
• Delaware Online: Rev. Rivers helps Wilmington's religous leaders to stem violence in city
  

  Rev. Eugene Rivers

  Wilmington, DE (Sep. 30, 2005) The Rev. Eugene Rivers spoke today to Wilmington Interfaith Initiative members. Rivers co-founded a group 10 years ago in Boston that developed a successful plan to cut violence in that city and offered suggestions to Wilmington's organization. Rivers' job is to fine-tune the Wilmington group's plan. He said that any plan be stripped to three basic elements: Keeping young people alive, making them literate and finding them jobs. [COMMENTS]
  
• Harvard University Gazette: Religious activist outlines path for new national dialogue
  

  Jim Wallis delivers a talk at Harvard University (Photo by Jon Chase)

  Cambridge, MA (Sept. 26, 2005) Divinity School lecturer and evangelical Christian leader Jim Wallis said the time has come to end the religious right's monologue on national moral values and begin a new, broader-based dialogue that goes beyond a fixation on gay marriage and abortion.

  Wallis spoke at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Monday (Sept. 26). The event, "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It," was sponsored by the Institute of Politics. "I am an evangelical Christian and I've found 3,000 verses in the Bible about helping the poor. So I think that helping the poor is a moral value issue," Wallis said.

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