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European Seminary Prioritizes Creation Care, Sustainable Development
How many Baptist seminaries celebrate their diamond jubilee with a gift wish list that includes funding for solar panels to produce hot water and photo voltaic panels for electricity production for street lights? The...
Baptist World Alliance Aims for Greater Global Representation
Baptist World Alliance leaders this week will consider a proposed restructuring aimed at what one leader described as building "a truly global organization." Over 400 Baptists from around the world are expected to...
Burmese need our prayer, care
Since last fall, I have attempted writing or editing several articles for the print edition of Baptists Today about the plight of the Burmese people. These articles have not made it to press because the situation in...
Of bullies and blackberries
Two things today: (1) The anti-bullying bill I mentioned earlier is apparently dead in North Carolina, bullied into submission by conservative Christians stirred to action by misleading hype that the measure was really...
An Open Letter to Dr. Bruce Ware
It saddened me to read excerpts in EthicsDaily.com from your sermon from a series on "Biblical Manhood and Womanhood" delivered at Denton Bible Church. Therefore, my husband and I went on line and listened to the...
Global Baptists Gather Next Week in Prague with Record of Growth, Organizational Change
When the Southern Baptist Convention voted in June 2004 to withdraw from and defund the Baptist World Alliance, a tiny body stepped up a month later at the BWA's annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea, with a commitment...
Gore Issues Energy Challenge: Carbon-Free Electricity Within 10 Years
Noble Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday issued a "moon shot"-style challenge for the United States to set a goal of producing 100 percent of its electricity from non-carbon, renewable energy...
Liberalism comes to VBS
Vacation Bible School is apparently where the slippery slope ends.I picked up my daughters (one a participant, the other a helper) from VBS at noon so we could have lunch together. But they were not hungry."Why?"I...
A Great Investment on Just Pennies A Day
A little over a year ago, the Missions Committee offered a small way we can impact our community. They sponsored "piggy banks" for each Sunday school class asking for loose change offerings to benefit God's Pantry....
Bullies Need Guidance
I suppose every school has bullies. I remember running into high-school bullies who didn't like my nerdy appearance, or who took offense when I talked to a certain girl in Latin class. Almost the entire high school...
Bid to Lead Alabama’s Public Service Commission Falls Short for Favorite of Religious Right
Support from conservative Christians and endorsement by Judge Roy Moore weren't enough for political outsider Matt Chancey to win Tuesday's Republican primary runoff for president of Alabama's Public Service...
Thinking Biblically About the Racial Profiling of the Roma People
The Italian government's plan to fingerprint the Roma people, commonly known as Gypsies, must be condemned by Baptists everywhere. For a number of years, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has focused its global...
Global Baptists Must Voice Opposition to Italy’s Fingerprinting of Roma People
Denial of human rights anywhere is a threat to human rights everywhere. Silence to injustice any time furthers injustice every time. Indifference to the suffering of any group increases indifference to the suffering of...
British Baptists Meet to Tackle Knife, Gun Violence
Churches should send a strong message to youth that carrying a gun or knife is "totally unacceptable," a speaker told about 100 Christians packed into a British Baptist church last weekend." Not a week goes by without...
From a Biscuit to the Bronx
The Board of Directors of Baptists Today met in Birmingham in the spring of 2007 to present the annual Judson-Rice Award to Prof. Wayne Flynt for his positive impact on the State of Alabama. Arriving the night before...
Christian Aid Group Blames Food Crisis on Trade Policies That Hurt the Poor
"Ruinous" agricultural policies forced upon poor countries by donor governments and financial institutions are to blame for the food crisis that threatens 100 million people with hunger, according to the international...
Quarter-Life Crisis
I'm 26 years old and I have, thankfully, already passed through my quarter life crisis.Unlike the mid-life crisis, which usually results in a new motorcycle, a bad hair-do and erratic decisions, the quarter-life crisis...
Don’t Forward Libelous E-Mail
Like everyone else, I daily receive forwarded e-mail messages from friends and acquaintances. Whenever it says at the bottom, "Pass this along to 10 of your friends and keep this message alive," I immediately determine...
A slice of heaven
Every month has something good going for it, and when I think of July, homegrown tomatoes sit at the top of the list. You can slice and dice and spice your way all the way up to the Food Network, but as a culinary...
Sin Spinning, Government Style
Despite a sinking (some might say stinking) economy, sales of lottery tickets are up in North Carolina. While listening to North Carolina Public Radio, I heard chief hustler Tom Shaheen credit the improved sales to the...
Confusion Reigns for Southern Baptist Professor
Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., actually does know why husbands abuse their wives. But he is confused and just doesn't realize that he knows:...