• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Is Christian Renaissance About to Come From an Unexpected Source?

Wolseley

Beaucoup-Diên-Cai-Dāu
Feb 5, 2002
21,941
6,623
64
By the shores of Gitchee-Goomee
✟362,201.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
article said:
We’ve seen a recent surge in religiosity among young people, along with other stirrings of possible renewal within Western culture. In fact, history, particularly Christian history, consists of a series of near-defeats that give way to unexpected renewal and the emergence of something even better than what came before.

Let's all pray that this is the case. I remember that St. John Paul II once said that the future of the Church would be from Africa; maybe his prophecy will be proved true.

 
  • Prayers
Reactions: Michie

Bob Crowley

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Dec 27, 2015
3,950
2,481
71
Logan City
✟986,923.00
Country
Australia
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
I remember years ago my old pastor quoting Malcolm Muggeridge's colorful quote about the decline of Western man.


“So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.”

Christianity in Africa will not be without its challenges. Our current priest is Nigerian and I remember that he said the biggest seminary in the wolrd is in Nigeria.

But they also have endemic violence against Christians in the northern parts of Nigeria by Fulani tribesman and Islamic fundamentalists.

I think a similar situation applies in some other African nations.
 
Upvote 0