Topic: Michael Spencer

Icap Profit Rises 4%

U.K. interdealer broker Icap PLC said Wednesday that its fiscal first-half net profit rose 4% to 98 million pounds ($156 million) as revenue grew ...

An Introduction to Aussie Rules

Earlier this summer we wrote a post about sports that inspire travel. Another great idea would be sports that are unique to certain countries. This...
In Mere Churchianity, Michael Spencer (aka The Internet Monk) urges those wounded by the church to return to a Jesus-shaped spirituality. Writing primarily to those who have left or are leaving the church, Spencer urges his readers to forget the idols of ...

Producing Too Little, Charging Too Much

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan (JPM), worries that derivatives reform will eat into his profits: Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co , told bank analysts earlier this month that forcing dealers to trade derivatives on exchanges could cost his ...

Reevangelizing the Church

As we have seen thus far in our review of Michael Spencer's provocative article The Coming Evangelical Collapse, evangelicalism in America has suffered from growing theological ignorance, cultural accommodation, and ecclesiastical confusion. " He further declares that this "small band" of reformation-minded ...
In our ongoing analysis of The Coming Evangelical Collapse we must inevitably examine what I call the " For many evangelicals, the consumer-driven megachurch has come to define success and thus this model, according to Spencer, remains most likely to survive the post-Christian ...

Generational Drift and Decay

Last week we began to unpack Michael Spencer's explosive article, " " Spencer's central assertion that "we are on the verge-within 10 years-of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity" drew widespread affirmations (or resignation) from many evangelicals. Historian Philip Jenkins adds, "Once ...

The Coming Evangelical Collapse

This was the provocative title of a recent article by popular blogger Michael Spencer (aka Internet Monk) published in the Christian Science Monitor. Emboldened hostility toward religion-as in the case of Connecticut, in which lawmakers put forth legislation to "reorganize" the Catholic ...
A FORMER City lawyer suing a Jesuit-run school for a record ?5 million today told a court how his career had been ruined by sexual abuse by a Catholic priest.. Mr Raggett, now 50, is suing the Preston Catholic College in Lancashire ...

Coming soon: 'Sustainable water' certification

A couple of years from now, beer, cola, rice, breakfast cereal, cotton T-shirts and many other goods may come with a new logo: a label which says the water used to make this product came from a sustainable source.The scheme, unveiled ...