Portal talk:Christianity

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How many Christians?

I have a simple question : Roughly, how many Christians are there, worldwide? I can't figure out where this information is in the portal. Thanks --Irrevenant [ talk ] 21:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

It is in List_of_religious_populations#Big_4_Religions. -Bikinibomb (talk) 22:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Random

I think it is high time we convert this to random portal. Any objections? If so, why? --Secisek (talk) 07:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no reason to. There is always new content that can be added and as long as someone is willing to keep it updated, there is no compelling need to make it random. --B (talk) 00:23, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Updating this portal seems to be a continued problem and I again suggest this. Thoughts? -- Secisek (talk) 17:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

We are currently running last years articles because there have been no new ones put up this month. The project has AT LEAST 120 GAs and almost 50 FAs. Why are we limiting our selves to one article and bio a month still? -- Secisek (talk) 22:07, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I also favor a random portal.Lamorak (talk) 02:03, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Selected verse

Would it be taken badly if we chose something from the Lolcat Bible as the selected scripture of the month? I think we could probably use a change of pace once in a while, and it is, kinda, biblical. John Carter (talk) 18:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Now that's a funny idea, but as much as I enjoy lolspeak, I think that it's more relevant to the lolcat culture than to Christianity itself :) I'm in ur portalz, eating ur lolcatz Brisvegas 10:39, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Church articles

I am not sure if I am posting this in the right place; if not apologies. Articles on individual churches appear regularly as AFD items, which I am picking up via Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Christianity, which is on my watch list. I would like to hear other peoples views about this. Most individual churches are without doubt non-notable. Some articles are a mere advert for the church, and probably deserve deletion as such. Others are rather more subtantantial and cross a quality threshold (though probably still not a notability one). Until recently I have been accepting the view that these articles have to be deleted, but an alternative is to merge them inot articles on the places (town, village, city - or better city locality) where they are. Peterkingiron (talk) 09:58, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I think if a church is retained in a place article, it should be of the type that might be an article later on when the article is more robust. Not congregations without a building and not "small" groups, whatever that means. A place article might say, we have "342 LDS members locally" or "there are five Baptist churches in Midville." Informational, not promo for church.

My thought is that church articles should not be clearly WP:PR or WP:SPAM. Churches should be of "some" size IMO. In lieu of other information (scandal, murder,embezzlement), a church of 25 or 30 people just won't cut it.

IMO "larger" churches, say, 1000 members or more (arbitrary figure), ought to be there anyway IMO. My question would be the reverse: why are they being kept out? There are many places in Wikipedia that are smaller than a number of churches. A church of "1000" members is, on its face, "influential (notable)." Older churches may be able to be there based on age of church building, regardless of size. Student7 (talk) 13:52, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Christianity calls itself

Portal:Christianity calls itself at the lowest part of the page. Anyone know how to fix this?--Carlaude ^(talk) 17:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Someone had created a vandalized version of the selected scripture page. --B (talk) 18:02, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Christianity?

there is a line between Christianity and Catholicism, that is Christianity is not the Catholic Church. The Protestant Church is now called or commonly known as Christian. The Catholic belief should be called Catholicism and the Protestant Protestantism. IDK if you erase what I say, but I find offensive that Christianity is linked only to the Catholic Church. Melara... (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC).

This is definitely not done universally. I assume it is a mistake someplace. Let us know and we can either change it, or help you change it. Student7 (talk) 12:26, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Christianity?

Many of the religions featured under this text is not Christian. Buddhism, Taoism, Scientology, Advent, do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He was God and therefore do not belong under this heading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.245.103 (talk) 19:19, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

I assume the "text" you are referring to is under the Portal:Christianity heading? This is a series of links to other portals - top-level portals are above the line, and religion-related portals are below the line. Portal:Buddhism is listed because it is related to the religion portal, not because it is part of the Christian portal. (It's actually a "sister" portal of the Christianity portal.) You should look under Portal:Christianity#The CHRISTIANITY PORTAL or Portal:Christianity#Topics to find what you're seeking. twilsonb (talk) 10:17, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I am trying to discover

why lecterns in churches are frequently shaped like an eagle. I have opinions and theorys and more, but, in the best wikipedia tradition, am looking for the facts. Have any? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:30, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I've yet to come across any lectern in the shape of an eagle - can you give a few examples of where you've seen them? HammerFilmFan (talk) 16:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)HammerFilmsFan

uhhhh

I didn't know what to do since there was no article on the main page, I just put jesus in it. Sorry! --Kenn5 (talk) 06:54, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Expert help needed

A few sections in Catholic–Eastern Orthodox theological differences have a seemingly inferior logic that perhaps affects a larger selection of subsections. Those interested who are proficient in theology, philosophy and logic, might give a helping hand by assessing relevant subsections and giving comment at the talk page HERE! Thank you for your attention, and otherwise happy editing! Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 09:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

"Roman Imperial Church"

There is a new article called Roman Imperial Church. I think it would be good if those involved in the Christianity Project would discuss it while it is still new. Esoglou (talk) 18:30, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Public Domain Scripture Only?

As of 26 July 2010, the Selected scripture nominations page claims that only public domain scripture is permitted by Wikipedia policy.

Is this true?

If it's unclear, I might try and resolve it by a Wikipedia:Non-free content review for quotations from the NET Bible, focusing on non-article space (which covers the Christianity Portal)? twilsonb (talk) 13:50, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Help

I need some help here Talk:Cedar Lake (California), if anybody can. Mlpearc powwow 17:09, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Please read the WP:Notability and WP:Deletion policies. They will help. twilsonb (talk) 10:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Christianity portals

I am currently trying to get together some lists of articles relevant to each Christianity-related portal which could be used, at least potentially, to help bring all the extant portals up to Featured Portal status. The current, admittedly incomplete, list of articles, images, etc., relevant to each portal can be found at User:John Carter/Christianity portals. I also think that, at least in theory, we would probably best use a single article only in a single portal, and that we probably have enough articles to do that, although there might be a few exceptions. I would welcome input from anyone on the associated talk page regarding which articles and other materials they would like to see associated with which portal(s), any suggestions for additional portals or changes to existing portals, etc. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 15:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Love

Hello. We are currently talking about the article Love, which had removed a Christian definition of love I added. I think that the conception of love for Christianity is important enough to also be in the lead. Would you like to go there and discuss it? Love for you. --Dalton2 (talk) 07:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Mormons

Please join the discussion about the open issue whether the Church of Jesus Christ LDS (mormons) should be defined as a christian religion or not here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints#Argument_against_Christianity . Currently the article defines them to be so, but scholarly works and general references show that we should not be to keen on calling them christian, since there has ever been an ongoing dispute in the academic world, and we should not argue against Britannica or Oxford English Dictionary, as long as we have not come to a reasonable conclusion. --217.5.199.242 (talk) 13:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)