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‘There Will Be Blood’
Daniel Day-Lewis gives a stellar performance as Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-20th-century robber baron in "There Will Be Blood." Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia") wrote and directed this bleak picture on the...
Southern Baptist Youth Minister Indicted on Molestation Charges
A grand jury in Tucson, Ariz., has indicted a Southern Baptist youth minister arrested Jan. 11 on eight counts of sexual abuse of a minor, a local television station reported Friday. According to KOLD News 13, the...
Life Lessons From Father to Son
After 31 years as a parent you would think I would have some sense of competence about the task. Well, I don't. If anything, as time goes along, I feel more perplexed than ever. Not that I am totally in the dark. There...
A most dissected message
Former President Bill Clinton will speak this Friday evening during the closing session of the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. He is one of those lightning-rod personalities who seems to draw either love or...
WMU-NC settles on a site
While thousands of National Baptists are gathering in Atlanta today, and thousands more are planning to join them for the New Baptist Celebration beginning Wednesday, an old friend has found new lodgings.Woman’s...
Death in the Congo
Last week the International Rescue Committee released its latest mortality survey for the Democratic Republic of Congo. They do a survey every 2-3 years; the methodology is as sound as it can be given the...
Huckabee Speaks Via Phone to Church, Despite Clergy Sex-Abuse Scandal
A day after canceling a Sunday-night sermon at a north Florida Baptist church facing pending lawsuits that allege molestation and cover-up, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee decided instead to address the...
Study Says Bush White House Made 937 False Statements in Lead-Up to War
A study released days before tonight's State of the Union address says President Bush and seven of his administration's top officials made at least 937 false statements about the national security threat of Saddam...
Obama likely to outdraw me, others
In Macon, Ga., today, Chuck Poole is guest preacher in the pulpit he once filled regularly at the First Baptist Church of Christ. I'm preaching at historic Mt. Zion Baptist Church for morning worship.Jim Dant of...
Out-of-this-world expectations surpassed
With the global economy struggling, political candidates wrangling, and an unhappy war muddling along with no end in sight, we have to celebrate successes where we can find them. That's one of the reasons I have home...
Leaders Promote Baptist-Muslim Dialogue
Leaders from three Baptist organizations met recently with a Muslim leader to begin discussions on ways the two faiths can work together and learn from one another. The initiative for Jan. 4-5 discussions in Hartford,...
Anti-Gay Church Plans to Protest Heath Ledger Memorial Service
A small Baptist church infamous for picketing military funerals plans to protest the memorial service for actor Heath Ledger, because the dead actor played a gay character in the 2005 Academy Award-winning film,...
Iranian Movie Portrays Islamic View of Jesus
Jesus appeared on movie screens four years ago in Mel Gibson's controversial "The Passion of the Christ." Jesus is back at the cinema, but this time Islam—not Christianity—provides the lens. "Jesus, Spirit of God,"...
Huckabee Not Speaking at Church Mired in Sex-Abuse Scandal
Mike Huckabee will not be speaking this weekend at a north Florida Baptist church facing pending lawsuits that allege molestation and cover-up. His campaign says he never agreed to it in the first place, contradicting...
Urgent Invitation to ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Screening at New Baptist Covenant
Unpublicized is a jewel of an opportunity for Baptists concerned about the environment. If you want to know more about global warming and what you can do, then attend one of two special screenings of "An Inconvenient...
Iranian Movie Portrays Islamic View of Jesus
Jesus appeared on movie screens four years ago in Mel Gibson's controversial "The Passion of the Christ." Jesus is back at the cinema, but this time Islam—not Christianity—provides the lens. "Jesus, Spirit of God,"...
Blogging at the Celebration
The late Cajun chef Justin Wilson, before explaining one his famous spicy recipes, used to say: "Let me tell ya what I'm gonna did."What Baptists Today is "gonna did" next week, is give significant attention to the...
A Godly Constitution
If elected president of the United States Governor Mike Huckabee plans to bring the U.S. Constitution into alignment with God:" [Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot...
EthicsDaily.com Reaches 10,000 Article Milestone
The article identification number in your browser right now is 10,000, marking a milestone for EthicsDaily.com. Six years ago on Martin Luther King Day, the Baptist Center for Ethics launched a new Web site publishing...
What I Hope in the New Baptist Covenant
For the greater portion of my professional life, I have felt more at home outside of my denomination than within it. I guess it can be expected when you're from a divided family. During the Baptist divorce of the...
Another good label lost
Thirty years ago, most Baptists who would today be labeled as "moderates" considered themselves to be conservative in most matters. They tried to follow the teachings of Christ, believed the Bible was inspired by God,...