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Former Preacher Accused of Molestation May Face More Charges
A former Southern Baptist pastor charged with molesting a youth in his church may face additional charges, according to media reports in Memphis, Tenn. The Commercial Appeal reported last week that detectives are...
Is Culture an Ally or Enemy of the Church?
The relationship of church to culture is a fascinating study that has caught the attention and analysis of serious scholars during the last generation. Ever since the "Word of God became flesh," God has been interested...
Baptist Leader Accused of Hiring Prostitute
A longtime champion of family values once nominated as chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention's moral-concerns agency surprised citizens of North Carolina with his arrest last week on multiple charges of aiding...
What Would Jesus Do?
The language of my faith is replete with appeals for believers to "be faithful to Jesus." Other words include "faithful follower," "loyal disciple" and "let Jesus be Lord of your life." The theology behind the language...
A Dangerous Justification by Faith
President Bush has invoked God to explain his warfare, according to Robert Parham on EthicsDaily.com. It appears, then, that the tragedy occurring on the world stage at the moment is being directed by the Almighty, and...
Racial Reconciliation Is Not a Past Event
I often have college students do an essay on race relations and the Christian heritage in light of reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Most students express an appreciation of King's life and work but many add: "We are...
From Ghanaian Slave Castle to 2008 Gathering, Goodwill Baptists Try to Dislodge Racism
Race is the bone lodged in the throat of Baptists, affecting every utterance, every action. Baptists tried yet again to dislodge the obstruction, which for centuries has choked whites and blacks in the tortured...
Christian Right Leaders Stand by Vitter
Christian Right leaders who applauded Louisiana Republican David Vitter's election to the United States Senate as a major win for family values are standing by their man caught in a sex scandal that threatens his...
Bush Makes God an Argument for Iraq War
When all the arguments for a failed war collapse, make God your argument. After no weapons of mass destruction, no mission accomplished, no functional democracy, no progress in Iraq, no stopping Al Qaeda from...
John McCain Tells Zionist Group He is Christian, ‘Proudly Pro-Israel’
U.S. Senator John McCain, who has had problems winning over religious conservatives in his run for the GOP presidential nomination, showed up Tuesday at a meeting of Christian Zionists to declare himself a Christian...
Australian Baptists Lobby Leaders to End Poverty
More than 180 Christian "prophets" recently descended on Australia's capital for advocacy and lobbying training to fight global poverty. The "Voices of Justice" campaign June 16-19 was sponsored by Micah Challenge,...
Religious Leaders Call for Just Farm Bill
A Baptist leader said Tuesday that the United States' farm policy is unfair to African-American farmers and disadvantaged farmers in Africa, the Caribbean and the developing world. Earl Trent, executive director of...
Christian Zionists Gather in Washington
Thousands of Christian Zionists are meeting this week in Washington in a second annual gathering to bolster evangelical support for Israel and fan opposition to radical Islam. San Antonio mega-church pastor and author...
Prayer for Henri
I was going to write today about the long and funny boat ride from Goma yesterday, about arriving in Bukavu, about how much nicer everything is in a place that hasn't had a volcano go down its main street. I want to...
Black Baptist Church in UK Suffers Racist Attacks
A predominantly black Baptist church in England has been pelted with eggs, had windows broken and staff verbally abused in a series of racially motivated attacks. Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church is a 300-member...
Pentecostal Youth Movement Sparks Abortion Protests
Abortion protestors rallied this weekend in Wichita, Kan., outside the clinic of a late-term abortion provider made famous with help from Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. About 300 of a reported 570 people at a...
The Mantra For 2007: Just Have A Little Patience
We keep being told that if the American forces pull out of Iraq, that part of the world will simply cave in and never be found again. It will sink into more of a civil war, eventually kill everybody, and then come...
‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth movie in the series, sets the stage for the end of the franchise, which has only two more installments. At the end of the last one, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of...
Clergy Sex-Abuse Scandals Hit Baptist Churches in Tennessee, Louisiana
Southern Baptist churches in Cordova, Tenn., and Slidell, La., are the latest to receive unwanted publicity after their current or former ministers were arrested on charges of sexual abuse of minors. Steven Haney, 46,...
Who Would Jesus Stone?
A tragedy of biblical proportions occurred in Iran this past week, according to an Associated Press report. A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death in a village in the northern part of the country.A tragedy of...
What Should Marlo Do?
Marlo Rodriguez is a 24-year-old illegal immigrant in Virginia--euphemistically called "undocumented" by the press and other politically correct operatives. He came to Northern Virginia 16 years ago, when he was only...