The Chocolate Chip Country

A Presbyterian church building was sold to a local Islamic Association, turning down offers from two Christian churches.

Co-pastor J. Daniel Hignight was asked "if he would ever seek to lead a member of the Islamic Society to Jesus Christ." He replied, "I don't feel a particular need to convert them to Christianity."

I suppose he probably doesn't feel any need to convert anybody to Christianity.

It's a sad story. The leadership was likely lost long before the building was.

Hat tip to prester_scott.

Muslim rallies threaten Pope Benedict XVI.

The Pope is being threatened because of a lecture he gave on the essentialness of reason to Christianity. In the lecture, he quoted a few things said by a Byzantine emperor which were unflattering to Islam.

The actual address. (Good reading, by the way!)

This is beyond ridiculous. How do you expect to persuade people that you aren't violent when your method of persuasion is to threaten to kill them?