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CBF Coordinating Council Adopts New Strategic Priorities
ATLANTA (CBF) -- A year-long spiritual discernment process culminated Oct. 10 in the unanimous approval by its governing Coordinating Council of the re-prioritizing of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's work. In...
Confessions of a hypocrite
Those of us who pay attention to words find them in a pretty constant state of change. Meanings, spellings and usage evolve.Some words come on the scene for a period of time and then leave. They are identified with a...
Halt of DVD Showing McCain Interview Is Ridiculous
Warner Bros. is halting any promotional viewings of the new DVD "The Hanoi Hilton" because the DVD includes a bonus feature of Sen. John McCain talking about his POW experience. This action is laughable. In 1987,...
Texas Board Site of Evolution Controversy
Since the table of chemical elements is not featured in the Bible, it's only fair that Moses and Abraham are kept out of science textbooks. That is the argument science teachers are wielding against efforts to...
Market Problems Are Systemic and Chronic
Rather than allowing the market to "punish" those companies that have acted irresponsibly, could we be reinforcing bad behavior by propping up those companies financially? It is capitalism's way of policing itself....
To blog, or not to blog?
I attended an academic conference for relatively new professors in Chicago last weekend, and it was a positive experience that gave me a chance to meet and learn from other theological school professors from all around...
Advent Is the Antidote to Economic Bad Times at Fast-Approaching Christmas
More than prophetic critique and hollow promises of political change, perhaps what our culture really needs from church leaders is a word of hope ”hope understood as the courage to wait.News reports offer a grim...
Baptist Seminary President Attacks Green-Letter Bible
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, criticized a newly released green-letter Bible. Published by HarperOne, the Bible is printed on recycled paper and with soy-based ink and a...
Faithful Leaders Make Worship a Priority
Most of us need a place ”a physical yet sacred space ”where we can go to devote ourselves to a focused encounter with the very presence of God. Jesus himself spent considerable time around the Temple in Jerusalem. He...
Two-issue Christians too narrow
Abortion and homosexuality are legitimate ethical issues for Christians to consider. But only within the last quarter-century has the broad field of Christian ethics, for some, been almost exclusively defined by these...
‘Save the Day’
The title song opens the collection by juxtaposing elaborate pleasures with simple ones. It comes closer to rock-and-roll than any other selection on the album and grabs the attention of the listener, alerting us to...
Don’t Poison the Well of Public Discourse
It was the religious people who first injected the language of battlefield into the civic debate. They did so, first, in religious struggles, as Baptists in the South can attest. The struggle to dominate was not simply...
One Nation, Four Gods
The Culture War, in fact, is not really a conflict pitting secularists and atheists against theists and people of faith, but rather a civil war among theists. The Culture War is a theological war over competing ideas...
Mark Your Calendars
Mark your calendars for upcoming screenings of our documentary-style DVDs which will be shown in public gathering in seven states this fall. Most events will have panel discussions. If you are in the area of our...
Former BWA Women’s Leader Dies
(BWA) Edna Lee de Gutiérrez from Mexico, president of the Baptist World Alliance Women's Department (BWAWD) from 1985-1990 and vice president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) from 1990-1995, died on Sunday, October...
Moonwalking
Walking our demonic dog beneath a full moon, I marveled at how sharp our shadows were against the faded pavement of our subdivision street -- and I pondered what lay behind it.The sun, for one thing, around 93 million...
U.S. Policy Pushes and Pulls Migrants
Migrants are easy targets on both sides of the borders. Not since the days of Jane and Jim Crow has the U.S. government had a policy in place that systemically brought death to a group of people based on their race or...
Choose Faith Over Fear
As Christians, we have every reason to see the crisis of confidence in the world's institutions as an opportunity to be reminded of what is most important and Who it is that truly holds our future. I recently heard...
Gore Says Faith Community Decisive in Tackling Climate Change
Al Gore knows that actions speak louder than words, especially when it comes to an issue which evokes reptilian opposition in some quarters of corporate America and skepticism within certain church circles: global...
News, but not new
Several recent news items testify to the truth of Qoheleth's complaint that "There is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9).The continuing panic on Wall Street may reflect the oldest news of all: with seven...
No One Wants to See Bush on the Big Screen Now
Oliver Stone will release his biopic of George W. Bush on Oct. 17. Prediction: Almost no one will want to see it. Starring Josh Brolin ("No Country for Old Men") as the president, the simply titled "W" carries the...