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Learning to Live in a World Without Privacy
If you want to change your life, change your attitude. If you want to change your relationships, change your language. If you want to change the world, change the way you communicate with it. What we have known and...
To thine own self be true
I'd wanted to see the musical version of "Billy Elliot" for some time, and last night was my chance. The production was well done, the stark staging was effective, and the boy (one of five) who played Billy was...
Judge Puts Hold on Okla. Anti-Shariah Amendment
(RNS) Lawyers for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office have two weeks to convince a federal judge to remove a temporary hold on a voter-approved state constitutional amendment that prohibits courts from considering...
Netanyahu Tells U.S. Jews He Won’t Allow Nukes for Iran
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told thousands of American Jewish leaders that Israel will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, and stands ready to negotiate a meaningful peace with...
Christian and Muslims Propose Joint Crisis-intervention Group
GENEVA (RNS/ENInews) Global Christian and Muslim leaders have called for a new group that can be mobilized whenever a crisis threatens to fuel conflict between Christians and Muslims. “Religion is often invoked in...
What’s CBF’s Future in 21st Century?
In a recent article at EthicsDaily.com, John Hewett, the first moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), shared hindsight on the position he and other moderate Baptists took at the beginning of the CBF...
Why Ministers Are A Lot Like Fertilizer
I've had the same "house plant" since 1981; it is one of those easy-growing plants that are hard to kill. I water it, fertilize it and change pots when the spirit moves. I bought it the year I moved into my first...
What Do Results of 160 Ballot Questions Say About Moral State of America?
Americans considered 160 ballot measures in 37 states during the midterm elections. A number of them dealt with social or moral issues, ranging from marijuana to global warming, from fetal personhood to Islamic law,...
Shaken, Not Stirred
A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., onNovember 7, 2010. Haggai 1:15b-2:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 Every church that has any history at all...
Hold On To Faith
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City Mo., on November 7, 2010. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Theologian Karl Barth said Christians engage the world best with a Bible...
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By John Pierce
There is a woman in Forest City, N.C., who doesn’t care for my journalistic efforts. She is not alone, so I’ve developed fairly tough skin over the years of expressing myself in print and online.
But rejection is never warmly received — especially when it comes via BlackBerry on an otherwise relaxing Friday evening.
The subject line read: “Please!!” Then followed: “Please stop this magazine from coming to this address.” At least she used “magic words” — closing with “Thanks.”
Five Anglican Bishops Leave for Roman Catholic Church
LONDON (RNS) Five bishops have decided to leave the Church of England and join the Roman Catholic Church under the Vatican’s new program to welcome disaffected Anglicans. The decision by three active and two retired...
Sikhs Call Airport Screening for Turbans Security Theater
WASHINGTON (RNS) Leaders of three Sikh organizations say they’ve been told by federal transportation officials that turbans will always be searched at U.S. airports, a move that Sikh officials called unnecessary and...
Churches to Mark 100th Anniversary of Ecumenical Movement
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Leaders of the nation’s largest coalition of Christian churches will gather here this week (Nov. 9-11) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ecumenical movement. Members of the National Council...
Can Do-It-Yourselfers Provide Better Aid Relief?
I've avoided reading and writing about the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof lately as I've really been trying to get the stress in my life under control. But this merits a response as apparently somebody still doesn't...
When Churches Follow Their Moral Compass
At the recent D.C. Baptist Convention, I witnessed what happens when individuals and churches allow God to use them for his greater glory. With all the craziness I have read or heard lately about what some churches and...
As Nations Flex Muscles, Their Citizens Starve
Recently, I visited the demilitarized zone on the border between North and South Korea. This is the last frontier of the Cold War, and the zone is anything but demilitarized. The tension is palpable. South Korean...
Soup, and more
I like Mondays, most of them. The week is still new and fresh, and while Friday may seem a long way off, there is rewarding work to do in between. I also like Mondays this semester because most of the faculty and staff...
Halloween Treat
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on October 31, 2010. Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 Tonight many children and their parents will engage in that...
Finishing Well
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church Winston-Salem, Nc., on October 24, 2010. 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Joseph Wittig once said that when we write people’s biographies we should start with...
Now That I Believe: I Listen to God
A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., on October 31, 2010. Psalm 62:5-8 Meditation Text: My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am....