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Baptists Speak With Unified Voice in New Baptist Covenant
The end of this month marks an historic event for Baptists in North America. Gathering leaders from the National Baptist Convention, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., and some...
SNAP Calls for Suspension, Investigation of Seminary President’s Link to Accused Predator
An advocacy group has called on Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to suspend its president and investigate newspaper reports from 1991 that he ignored allegations of sexual misconduct by a preacher friend now...
Why do younger Baptists avoid the SBC?
A new study from LifeWay Christian Resources notes that the percentage of younger adults attending the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting has declined significantly for the past 27 years, with an even steeper...
Christian Delegation Says Recent Attacks on Indian Christians Worst in History
Recent violence in Orissa, India, was the worst ever targeting the Christian community in democratic India, according to a fact-finding report by the All India Christian Council." We are saddened to acknowledge the...
Huckabee’s Religious Views Worry Jews
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's fundamentalist Christian credentials may be winning him votes among conservative evangelicals, but they are backfiring with another important voting demographic--liberal...
A Position Opposing Abortion Does Not Make One Pro-Life
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most memorable decisions in the Roe v. Wade case. That decision viewed laws that banned abortion as violations of constitutional rights to privacy and gave women...
Lessons from the swamp
A recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed the surprise results birdwatchers found on a trip to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.Last spring, wildfires consumed 115,000 of the South Georgia...
Did ’60 Minutes’ Toss Roger Clemens a Softball?
Did you watch Roger Clemens on "60 Minutes" Sunday night? I was at a meeting, but I caught the highlights on various news channels later on. What did you think: guilty or not guilty? I want to believe Roger. He is a...
Blog Solicits Reports About Accused Preacher Predator
A woman who says she resisted unwanted advances 17 years ago by a pastor now under investigation for allegedly sending lewd text messages to two underage girls believes there are other victims and has started a blog...
Alabama CBF Host for Screening of ‘Good Will for the Common Good’
The Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is host for the first public screening of the new Baptist Center for Ethics DVD "Good Will for the Common Good," aimed at improving relations between Baptists and Jews. The...
Starry Eyes
In honor of Epiphany (January 6), which marks the traditional date of the wise men's arrival in Bethlehem, I thought I would post an unusual interview I was able to obtain with one Mr. Gaspar, despite his having been...
Baptist Center for Ethics DVD Promotes Good Will Between Baptists and Jews
Better relations between Baptists and Jews will be achieved not by denominational leaders but from person-to-person and congregational relationships built on wisdom, balance, courage and justice, according to the...
Christians Should Respond to the Immigration Debate with the Compassion of Christ
The Christmas Season has once again come and gone. Presents have been opened and exchanged, decorations have been stored for another year, and resolutions have been made to start the New Year. The ever-familiar...
Baptist World Aid Seeks Funds for Kenya Relief
Baptist World Aid, the relief-and-development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, is seeking funds to aid Kenyans suffering from violence that erupted after a disputed presidential election Dec. 27. More than 360 people...
Wisdom from Warren
The holidays created more television time than usual. While channel-surfing often left me in the cold, I did pick up a few jewels along the way.For example, I caught part of a CNBC report on gazillionaire Warren...
The presidency is decided?
The Iowa caucuses brought some surprises to the U.S. presidential campaign and established Barak Obama and Mike Huckabee as the early front runners in the world beyond opinion polls.They did not, however, decide the...
Christmas Star Gets Its Due on Epiphany
(Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly) Christmas, despite what the calendar says, isn't over. And the star--"star of wonder, star of night, star with royal beauty bright"--that shone over Bethlehem won't go dim until it...
New Year Hopes and Wishes
I don't do New Year's resolutions anymore. However, I do have a few New Year's hopes and wishes. For instance, I hope that some time in the coming year we can find a way to get our troops out of Iraq. They should never...
Pat Robertson Predicts Stock-Market Crash, Rising Gold Prices and Spiritual Breakthrough in China
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted global violence and chaos in 2008, along with economic recession in the United States, in annual prognostications broadcast on Wednesday's "700 Club" television program. In...
Attend Lunch with Nobel Laureate
Nobel Peace Laureate Al Gore will speak at a luncheon scheduled for Jan. 31, 2008, from noon to 2 p.m., in Atlanta, in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom at the Georgia World Congress Center.The $35 ticket is pricey. The...
Not all ‘reality’ deserves public viewing
On Jan. 1, Court TV became truTV. The network specializes in video recordings of real-life law enforcement and rescue activities. A few episodes of "COPS" or similar shows can make me believe my late father was right...