Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Now again in 1961, in England, there is perhaps nothing in the religious sphere so popularly discussed as Christian unity.

Category: Christian religious leaders

The most common criticism of HH Price's afterlife hypothesis has come from the religious community as his suggestions are not consistent with traditional Christian teaching, nor the teachings of any other monotheistic religion.

Some religious groups, such as the Association of Christian Schools International, opposed the ADA in its original form.

Category: Christian religious leaders

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

* Ash Wednesday, Christian religious holiday

The group killed members of the Muslim Abbasid, Seljuq, and Christian Crusader élite for political and religious reasons.

Readings, chantings, and choral settings, of the book of Lamentations, are used in the Christian religious service known as the Tenebrae ( Latin for darkness ).

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as " Christ " and Domin-(" Lord "), which are used in the BC / AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus was the Christ.

Marriage is not a sacrament of the Christian Science church, but the church's by-laws require a legal, religious ceremony for marriage: " If a Christian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally authorized.

Many Christian Scientists thought the book violated the church's by-laws, and the editors of the church's religious periodicals and several other church employees resigned in protest.

* List of Christian Scientists ( religious denomination )

Category: Christian religious orders established in the 13th century

Stilicho's enemies later reproached him for having gained his victory by taking impious advantage of the great Christian festival.

* Creation Festivals, Christian music festival

Easter () or Pascha (, Paskha ; Pasḥa ; from Pesaḥ ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.

Evidence for another kind of annual Christian festival, the commemoration of martyrs, begins to appear at about the same time as evidence for the celebration of Easter.

The reference to the Jewish " boast ", and, indeed, the strident anti-Jewish tone of the whole passage, suggests another issue: some Christians thought that it was undignified for Christians to depend on Jews to set the date of a Christian festival.

Easter, the preeminent feast that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, is clearly the earliest Christian festival.

Ronald Hutton notes that while medieval Irish authors do attribute a historical pagan significance to the Beltane festival, they are silent in this respect in regard to Samhain, apparently because no tradition of pagan ritual had survived into the Christian period.

Yule or Yuletide (" Yule time ") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples and some neighboring peoples, before later being absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas.

Paul already in the 1st century notes the importance of this festival to the early Christian communities.

Mother's Day is an USA invention and it's not directly descended from the many celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have occurred throughout the world over thousands of years ; like the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria, or the Christian Mothering Sunday celebration.

Significantly, for Asterius the Christian feast was explicitly an entry from darkness into light, and although no conscious solar nature could have been expressed, it is certainly the renewed light at midwinter, which was celebrated among Roman pagans, officially from the time of Aurelian, as the " festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ".

They feel that to conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, the Catholic Church took measures to amalgamate the Christian and Pagan festivals so pagans would join the church ; for example, bringing in the pagan festival of Easter as a substitute for the Pasch or Passover, although neither Jesus nor his Apostles enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival.

The exact date was probably already a result of Christian influence and identification of Māra with Mary, whose main festival ( Assumption ) falls on the same date since antiquity.

However, it came to be considered that Easter should be held on a Sunday, the day of the resurrection, and the First Council of Nicaea in 325 fixed the precise date for celebrating Easter so that all Christian churches in all regions should celebrate the principal festival of the Church on the same day.

In 1984, Youth Choir became the first band to play at the Cornerstone Festival, the pre-eminent Christian arts and music festival in the United States.

Cornerstone Festival was a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around the 4th of July near Bushnell, Illinois.

Encore performances were usually done at or after midnight, and the performers ( especially on the later nights of the festival ) were among the most popular, most well-established bands in Christian music at the time.

In March 1970 Norman performed at the Youth for Christ-sponsored Faith Festival, the first major Jesus music festival, at Evansville, Indiana, which attracted 6, 000 people to hear him, Pat Boone and his family, Christian folk singer Gene Cotton, and Jesus rock artists Danny Taylor, Crimson Bridge, and e, a band that included Greg X. Volz.

In August 1979 Norman made his first of his four appearances at the Greenbelt Festival, a British Christian festival of " arts, faith and justice " held annually since 1974, that was held that year in the grounds of Odell Castle in Bedfordshire, Norman took Randy Stonehill with him, and introducing him to his own established audiences.

After seeing Norman perform, British festival promoter Tony Tew, said, " The pioneering music of Larry Norman has crossed the water, and we've learnt that it really is possible to be a Christian and a rock ' n ' roll singer.

After several concerts throughout the U. S. and one in Canada, they ended the tour at Cornerstone Festival, a Christian music festival in Illinois, on June 30.

Whitsun ( also Whitsunday, Whit Sunday or Whit ) is the name used in the UK for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples ( Acts of the Apostles chapter 2 ).

Lucedale is home of the annual Christian music festival Praise in the Park.