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Green Movement Gradually Blossoms in Local Churches
The green movement in many churches is still at the grassroots level, but members of faith communities are applying fertilizer and seeing growth. "It can start at the changing of the light bulb type of level," said...
Polarizing Views Aside, America’s Never Been a Christian Nation
We live in a new world. It's not the same world we lived in a decade ago when most were just learning to use e-mail and getting wired. It's not the same world because we're more polarized as a people than ever. It's...
Let’s Eat
Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Apr. 26 2009. Luke 14: 7-24. Food should be savored and not gulped down. Perhaps that’s the most hypocritical statement I have...
Handling the truth with gentler hands
Jesus said: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). He did not say: "...and the truth shall make you obnoxious."Yet often that is how Christians in the public arena come across — as...
Deniers Create Doubt to Fend Off Science of Climate Change
Al Gore's motives for addressing global warming were challenged by a Tennessee congresswoman on the very day that the New York Times reported that a lobby group for the fossil fuel industry covered up in the 1990s what...
Missouri Baptist Board OKs Mission Funds for Lawsuits
If there had been any lingering doubt as to the resolve of the Missouri Baptist Convention's (MBC's) executive committee to continue the legal battles with the five "renegade" agencies, as they are fond of labeling...
Environmental Groups, Churches Explore Ways to Team Up
Environmental organizations, such as the National Wildlife Federation, the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, are reaching out to churches and faith-based organizations for partnerships on issues of environmental...
I Myself
Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, A.R., on Apr. 26 2009. Psalm 4:1-8; Luke 24:36-48 Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, spoke in chapel when I was...
Christ Among Us
Sermon delivered by Keith Herron, pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, M.O., on April 26, 2009. Luke 24: 36b-48. To continue from our post-resurrection scene last week invites us to think further about...
Americans’ Confidence in Religious Leaders at All-Time Low
Confidence in religious leaders is at an all-time low, according to the General Social Survey. Or to put it a different way, used car salesmen and members of Congress need to slide over and make room for us because...
Interfaith Friendships Spark Deeper Reflection on Jesus
When the interfaith group of which I am a part began a few years ago, most of the participants wanted to learn about each other's religions (or, as some put it, each other's faiths). After a couple of years of monthly...
BWA Donates Funds to Drug Rehabilitation Clinic in Peru
Arequipa, Peru (BWA) -- The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) made a donation of almost $4,900 toward the establishment of a chicken farm for a drug rehabilitation program in Arequipa, Peru. BWA General Secretary Neville...
Dunn honored with Judson-Rice Award
Baptists Today honored James M. Dunn with its ninth annual Judson-Rice Award April 24. More than 270 persons attended the dinner event at Bridger Field House in Winston-Salem, held between sessions of a regional New...
Straight stories
I’ve been at Duke University April 23-24, attending a Symposium on Archaeology and the Media. The symposium grew out of a growing problem – fueled largely by an unpatrolled Internet and media outlets that need...
McCain’s Strategist: GOP Should Support Gay Marriage
Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist who ran John McCain's presidential campaign, is worried about the future of the Republican Party. Speaking to the national convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP gay and...
Can Prophets of Doom Awaken Us from Comfortable Lifestyles?
Prophets of doom were once a parody—these shoddily clad, long-bearded and crazy-eyed predictors of imminent peril wearing sandals and sandwich-board signs bearing the standard cliché: "The End is Near." Now, they are...
“Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain”
Editor's note: EthicsDaily.com features this review as part of our ongoing focus on Baptist-Muslim relationships. "Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain" is a 47-minute documentary showing how Islamic...
Baptists’ Witness in Israel Approaches a Century
Farewells were said as a determined young man left his family in Safed, the crown jewel of the mountains overlooking the Sea of Galilee, to make his way to America. In 1909, under the love and guidance of Dr. George W....
Baptist division is costly
The high price of division continues to climb in the ongoing legal efforts of the Missouri Baptist Convention against five breakaway agencies. Even after losing a recent court decision involving Windermere Baptist...
Pastor: Baptists in Gaza Caught Between ‘Two Fires’
Baptist work started in Palestine around 1954 with Southern Baptist Convention missionaries. Among the first ministries established were the Gaza Baptist Church, a hospital and a school for nursing, which has since...
“State of Play”
The struggle between getting the story right and getting it first is at the heart of “State of Play,” a journalistic thriller starring Russell Crowe, that's now in theaters. In a time when daily newspapers are going...