Texas Pastor Honored for Support of Public Schools

A Houston school district recently honored a Baptist pastor in large part for his support of a pastoral letter supporting public education issued this spring by the Baptist Center for Ethics. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District presented Ed Hogan, senior...

Clergy Sex-Abuse Activist Awaits Response from SBC

Two weeks have passed since Christa Brown and two other survivors of clergy sex abuse hand-delivered a letter to Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., asking leaders to set up an independent panel to address the problem of sexual abuse by...

‘Foleygate’ Divides Republicans

The Mark Foley affair threatens an unholy alliance between the Religious Right and gay Republicans that helped re-elect President Bush in 2004. Religious conservatives blamed the former Republican congressman’s long-rumored but just-confirmed homosexuality for...

Study Links Theology, Domestic Abuse

Bad theology concerning the roles of men and women may contribute to domestic abuse, says a new study by the Church of England. “Domestic abuse is not simply an isolated series of events between a perpetrator and a victim but reflects the wider factors...