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EPA Says Global Warming Will Impact Life in the U.S.
Global warming will have significant impact on Americans' quality of life, claims a recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency. As a highly developed country, the United States can expect fewer cases of...
Baptist World Aid Seeks to Become Baptist Hub for Disaster and Develop Initiatives
Baptist World Aid wants to become the "network hub" for the relief and development efforts for global Baptists, according to a document presented in Prague, Czech Republic, at the annual gathering of the Baptist World...
Of castles and cathedrals
The people of Prague are particularly proud of the Prague Castle, parts of which date back 11 centuries, but none of which looks like a castle – at least to Western eyes. The castle complex consists mostly of inter-...
Baylor fires President Lilley
The Waco Tribune is reporting that Baylor University regents fired President John M. Lilley this morning. Lilley was half way into a five-year contract as the 13th president of his alma mater.This following statement...
Pros and cons of a trayless society
According to a USA TODAY article in yesterday's edition, college cafeterias are eliminating the familiar food trays. One higher education expert predicted most of the nation's 4,000 colleges and universities will phase...
Making Interruptions Into a Ministry
It's not unusual to get a phone call and be asked, "Are you busy?" Now that question is tricky. Of course I stay busy. If I'm in the office, I'm not doing crossword puzzles. However, I know the question is a courteous...
Academic Credentials of Conservative Canadian Leaders Questioned
Top leaders of a conservative activist group often quoted in Canadian media as representing Judeo-Christian moral values pad their resumes with degrees from unaccredited schools. EthicsDaily.com reported last month...
BWA to Discuss Open Letter from Muslim Leaders to Christian Leaders
Global Baptists are scheduled today to discuss an open letter from 138 Muslim religious leaders to 32 Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christian leaders. Issued Oct. 13, 2007, the letter calls for finding common...
A refugee in one’s own land
How can one be a refugee in his own land? It happens in the Promised Land every day, as the Israeli government, in the name of security, continues to build new settlements that encroach on Palestinian territory, and to...
In the home of Hus
The historic city of Prague, where the Baptist World Alliance Annual Gathering is being held, was the home of Jan (Johannes) Hus, who was a Reformer when reforming wasn't cool. Hus (whose name means "Goose," and rhymes...
We’re Number 1?
With the football season approaching, we can get ready to see all kinds of weird fans on the TV screens with their index fingers pointed toward us, yelling, "We're No. 1." Being No. 1 in the world also comes on strong...
Report: State Official Upholds Nomination of Wiley Drake for Vice President
Former Southern Baptist Convention officer Wiley Drake is reportedly officially a candidate for vice president of the United States in California--at least for now. Ballot Access News, a Web site that covers minority...
Bangladeshi Baptist Leader Receives Human Rights Award
Dennis Datta stood at the cutting edge of Baptist moral leadership in 2002, criticizing worldwide Baptists and calling them to support a bold plan to halve global poverty by 2015. The Bangladeshi Baptist leader did so...
Knedlik, long lines, and rainbows
Tuesday July 21 brought the first full day of work for committees, commissions, and workgroups of the Baptist World Alliance, meeting in Prague for its 2008 Annual Gathering.More than 400 global Baptists are here, and...
No news: Dobson ‘might’ endorse McCain
Presidential politics can be interesting. The most laughable and least significant report of the week was Focus on the Family leader James Dobson's pronouncement that he "might" endorse Republican Sen. John McCain.In...
‘The Dark Knight’
It begins with a heist, but in the midst of it we see something of what is to be. "The Dark Knight" is director Christopher Nolan's second Batman movie (read our review of his "Batman Begins"). It may sound hyperbolic,...
Baptist Leader Raises 10 Questions About Ordination
Nearly 400 years after the founding of the first Baptist church in Amsterdam by John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, Baptists are still debating the meaning of ordination, a topic that will be considered during six hours of...
‘The Dark Knight’
It begins with a heist, but in the midst of it we see something of what is to be. "The Dark Knight" is director Christopher Nolan's second Batman movie (read our review of his "Batman Begins"). It may sound hyperbolic,...
Mohler, Dobson Bash Obama
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler warned that electing Sen. Barack Obama as president would send America on a trajectory toward "normalization" of homosexuality and gay marriage. In a radio...
Czech it out
The 2008 Annual Gathering of the Baptist World Alliance is being held in the beautiful old city of Prague, in the Czech Republic, known in the old Soviet days as Czechoslavakia. Prague, of course, is much older than...
Theology of Southern Baptist VBS Song Questioned
Critics say a song being sung this summer in Southern Baptist Vacation Bible Schools across the country includes faulty theology about the Trinity and the Bible."In the beginning was the Word, and it was with God and...