by Brian Kaylor | Dec 26, 2014 | News
Baptist preacher and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. used his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to suggest that segregated worship houses serve as a barrier to true Christian worship. Sitting in jail after being arrested for leading a...
by Brian Kaylor | Dec 24, 2014 | News
An independent political fact-checking organization recently lambasted media hype about the Ebola virus in the United States. PolitiFact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonpartisan site, named Ebola exaggerations by media outlets and politicians the “Lie of the...
by Brian Kaylor | Dec 17, 2014 | News
In early December, the streets of Capitol Hill are briefly transformed into a first century Middle Eastern scene as robed people march through the streets with sheep, donkeys and camels. A “live nativity,” this annual event started in 2010 to enact the...
by Brian Kaylor | Dec 12, 2014 | News
Baptist leaders offered a variety of responses to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s long-awaited report on the U.S. use of torture during the George W. Bush administration. While the full 6,000-page report is classified, a 525-page summary was released on...
by Brian Kaylor | Nov 24, 2014 | News
President Barack Obama explained the executive actions he was taking to prevent the possible deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants during a primetime address on Thursday from the East Wing of the White House. Many Christian leaders praised the effort,...