Whois & Analysis for cross.tv

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.

The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.

Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith.

Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world.

Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.

Another way of defining belief sees it as a mental representation of an attitude positively oriented towards the likelihood of something being true.

In the context of Ancient Greek thought, two related concepts were identified with regards to the concept of belief: pistis and doxa.

Simplified, we may say that pistis refers to "trust" and "confidence", while doxa refers to "opinion" and "acceptance".

The English word "orthodoxy" derives from doxa.

Jonathan Leicester suggests that belief has the purpose of guiding action rather than indicating truth.

A local church is a Christian religious organization or community that meets in a particular location.

Many are formally organized, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, are served by clergy or lay leaders, and, in nations where this is permissible, often seek non-profit corporate status.

The term Christian left refers to a spectrum of left-wing Christian political and social movements that largely embrace viewpoints described as social justice that upholds a social gospel.

Given the inherent diversity in international political thought, the term can have different meanings and applications in different countries.

Although there is some overlap, the Christian Left is distinct from liberal Christianity as not all Christian Leftists are Liberal Christians and vice versa.