The World of Christianity
Barely two millennia old, Christianity boasts over two billion adherents, almost a third of the world's population. With a 2,000-year history of evangelism, expansion, and renewal, the sheer number of sects, communities, and traditions it embraces can be hard to keep track of. Fortunately, Christianity has kept up with the times and found its way to the Web. You can learn about it, practice it, and keep up to date with the Christian faith daily online.
Expand All Guide SectionsThe Beliefs, Practices, and History of Christianity
Christianity comes in many forms, with such different sects as the politically minded Liberation ... read more »
Christianity News
Though 2,000 years old, Christianity is anything but moribund. With Christian churches and people ... read more »
Connecting With the Christian Community
The Christian community encompasses more than a weekly church visit, and the ways to interact with that community are expanding rapidly, with Web sites for Christians of all ages. Whether you want to learn and discuss religion with other Christians; find music, videos, and Church sites; or even make a date for after Sunday services, the Web is ready to help you.
Dulcinea's Insight
- When using social networking sites and dating online, always use caution-even within what you think is a trusted Christian community. For more information on Internet safety, read the findingDulcinea Internet Security Guide.
- Dating online can be a tricky practice. For more information on how to find the right one online, click over to the findingDulcinea Dating Guide.
Dulcinea's Picks
For Christian portal sites ...
Crossmap is designed to help bring your entire online Christian life to one page. With a search engine, Web directory, news, devotionals, shopping, and many other online tools, this portal site is a timesaving tool for the Christian Web surfer.
Worthy Ministries is a one-stop portal site for Christian news, links, and discussion. Based in Israel, this evangelical group's site offers a Christian Web directory and search engine to help you track down what you need online. In addition, the site includes a news aggregator, forums, a chat feature, and free e-mail.
Christian Top 1000 is a simple listing of the top Christian sites, based on how many daily visitors each one receives. The sites run the gamut of content, but because the directory's database of sites is generated by user recommendations, not all Christian sites might appear.
Baptist Church Web Sites makes finding smaller Baptist church Web sites easy with its clickable map of the United States. Clicking on an area gives a long list of Baptist sites in the selected region, with polite warnings about annoyances such as embedded music and other bad netiquette.
To find other Christian singles ...
Christian Mingle is a free, fun, slick social networking site for Christian singles looking to connect with one another. After creating your profile and adding your preferences for matches, you can search and browse the member base and photo gallery. If you find someone you think you might like, you can make use of the novel "click" feature, and Christian Mingle will send them your profile along with profiles of two random members, allowing you to reach out in a semi-anonymous, non-threatening way.
eHarmony.com allows you to view potential dating matches for free. Although the site is to not designed exclusively for any religion, it is often reviewed by Christians looking for like-minded partners (the founder is an evangelical Christian). Because members fill out an in-depth personality profile, matches are made between people who share values.
Christiansingles.com is a Web site designated only for "marriage-minded" Christian singles. If you are a serious Christian looking to settle down, this is the place for you. You can subscribe for different types of membership, which have varied costs, although promotional rates are available to beginning users.
For tools to teach about Christianity ...
Bluefish TV offers videos of professional quality and aim to educate both youth and adults about Christianity and the Christian way of life. It costs $1.99 to download high-resolution copies of some videos, but you can preview them online in full for free. Other videos and educational kits on DVD can cost more.
Finding a Church
The Web offers some truly amazing resources to explore and take part in the Christian faith online, ... read more »
Christian Blogs
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