Exploring the Influence of Witchcraft Beliefs on Church Growth within Africa Brotherhood Church in Machakos County, Kenya

The effect of church tax on church membership

In this study, we examine the effect of church tax on the church membership decision using Finnish data. We present both descriptive statistics from an opting-out website and econometric evidence exploiting the panel structure of a large individual-level data set. Our descriptive analysis shows that opting out is concentrated towards the last days of the year, i.e., the last chance to avoid pay...

The mandate of the Christian church in poverty alleviation: the case of the Anglican church of Kenya (ack) in Maseno and Winam divisions of Kisumu district, Kenya

Poverty and attempts to alleviate it is an issue that has continued to generate interest of national governments and international agencies and mostly in most developing countries. The Christian Church, in spite of its central mandate being spiritual evangelism has continued to participate in the fight against poverty to accomplish Jesus Christ's mission to whole-heartedly serve and minister to...

The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19)

W. J. SHEILS (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), Oxford, Basil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50. This collection of essays represents a thoughtful, stimulating, and generally successful cooperative attempt by medical and ecclesiastical historians to study an important topic, the relationship between the Christi...

On the Church-Turing Thesis

After a brief description of the Church-Turing Thesis, we suggest that, according to the latest results on classical recursive probabilistic solution of the Halting Problem, such thesis is asymptotically false.

Redeeming the City: Exploring the Relationship between Church and Metropolis