SBC Leaders Lend Influence to Expose of Public Schools

Fundamentalist leaders Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler are endorsing a book written by the catalyst for a failed effort to get the Southern Baptist Convention to pass a resolution calling for a mass exodus from public schools. Houston attorney and home-school parent...

BWA Day Set for Feb. 6

Baptist churches across America will observe this Sunday as Baptist World Alliance Day, the first annual observance to occur since the Southern Baptist Convention voted to sever ties with the group last June. BWA spokesperson Wendy Ryan said the organization...

Southern Baptists Pray for Conversion of Tsunami Victims

Amid controversy over outside groups using relief efforts to proselytize, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board set Thursday aside as a day of prayer and fasting for the tsunami-stricken Aceh people of Indonesia. Out of 4.1 million...

LaHaye Says U.N. ‘Independent of God’

The United Nations functions “independent of God” and has failed in its main purpose of preventing war, “Left Behind” author Tim LaHaye said Tuesday on CNN. LaHaye, named this week by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals...

Bush Appeals to Conservatives in State of the Union Speech

Between dominant themes of plans to reform Social Security and continue to fight terrorism, President George W. Bush touched on themes dear to social conservatives in his 2005 State of the Union address Wednesday night. Following recent criticism after saying he would...