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Church Seeks Line Between Interfaith and Intolerance
DES PERES, Mo. (RNS) More than 100 Lutherans streamed into the basement classroom at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Des Peres recently for a Bible study called "Islam Through a Lutheran Lens." It was a...
Obama Exempts Religious Groups from Contraception Mandate
(RNS) Facing growing furor from religious groups, President Obama on Friday (Feb. 10) unveiled an "accommodation'' in which health insurance companies, rather than religious institutions, will provide employees with...
Book Shatters Stereotypes on Muslim Women, Sex and Love
(RNS) If you think good Muslim women wait for marriage to have sex, think again. "I'm an unmarried, Muslim non-virgin," declares Insiya Ansari, a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. "I've said it aloud." "And no, I...
Adversity and Joy: Life Sends Both Your Way
Life seems to throw things at you in unexpected ways. You have things planned out, routines plotted and dreams of smooth sailing, when, suddenly, you are inundated with a wave of adversity. Adversity is a part of life....
Why Baptist Churches Are More Than Family
Editor's note: This column is another of several EthicsDaily.com will carry from an initiative from Great Britain called "Beyond400.net – Baptists Imagining Life After 400 Years." I wonder why you became a Baptist....
Newsweek Feeds Fear
Newsweek's cover story trumpeted, "The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World." The once dependable weekly news magazine has of late been slipping from news to opinion, from civil discourse to pages peppered with...
With Wings Like Eagles
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church,Winston-Salem, Nc., on February 5, 2012. Isaiah 40:21-31; Mark 1:29-29 Just imagine. It’s hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. You and other...
Amazing Authority
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on January 29, 2012. Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Mark 1:21-28 I try to imagine myself as the priest of the synagogue Jesus visits in our...
Ever Interrupted a Sermon?
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on January 29, 2012. Mark 1:21-28 Have you ever interrupted a preacher while he or she was delivering a sermon? I’ve sat through a...
No Ordinary Relationships: The Power to Heal
A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, First Baptist Church, Pastor, Rome, Ga., on February 5, 2012. Mark 2:1-12 Morning Prayer: O God, our Father, we do not know how to ask for forgiveness as we should. Our pride will...
Lessons From A Day In The Life of Jesus
A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor, New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on February 5, 2012. Isaiah 40:21-3121 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?...
Free at last!
Last fall I mentioned the immigration case of Nazry ("Naz") Mustakim, a native of Singapore who lived in the United States with proper documents as a Legal Permanent Resident for nearly 20 years before being taken into...
Egyptians Say Christian Party Is Not the Answer
WASHINGTON (RNS) Despite continuous attacks on Coptic Christians, a delegation of Egyptian Christian leaders said Wednesday (Feb. 8) they do not support the development of a Christian political party as a possible...
Fact Checker: Obama Muslim Prayer Meme is False
(RNS) The people behind a popular chain e-mail about President Obama and the National Day of Prayer might want to think about the sin of omission. That's omission, as in omitting facts. The widely circulated e-mail...
Anglican Breakaway Group Confronts New Power Struggle
NASHVILLE (RNS) The saga of the Anglican Mission in the Americas sounds like the words to an old country song: "Why have you left the one you left me for?" Founded by breakaway Episcopal priests who left their former...
Can Christians Be Conservative?
A dispute in recent issues of TheNewYorkReviewofBooks provokes an old but ever-new question: Is it possible for authentic followers of Jesus the Anointed of God to be conservatives, or must they by definition be...
10 Commandments for Working for Change: Part Two
Editor's note: This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one here. I've been thinking, at 57, about how disappointing the world, other people, the church, society, politicians, even myself, are. And yet, I...
Bonhoeffer “ A Faith That Stood Against Darkness
On April 9 nearly 70 years ago, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in a Nazi prison in Flossenberg, Germany. Known best for his book, "The Cost of Discipleship," – a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount – Bonhoeffer's...
Five Reasons Why Obama Is Losing the Contraception Fight
(RNS) The White House has surprised observers and disappointed some liberal allies by signaling that it is willing to compromise and provide a broader religious exemption in its controversial regulations requiring all...
Report Calls Muslim Terrorism a ˜Minuscule Threat’
(RNS) The threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism is "tiny" and often exaggerated by government officials, a leading anti-terrorism expert said in a report released Wednesday (Feb. 8). Charles Kurzman, a sociologist at...
Lawmaker Angry over Loss of ˜God’ in Air Force Logo
(RNS) Dozens of members of Congress are upset that the Air Force has removed the Latin word for "God" from the logo of an Air Force acquisitions office. Led by Rep. J. Randy Forbes, co-chairman of the Congressional...