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Book Says Churches Add to Victimization of Women in Domestic Violence
A new book by a survivor of domestic violence says churches are failing abused women through a combination of bad advice, faulty theology and a Catch-22 where women are told divorce is not an option and yet held in...
Baptist Press Validates Need for BCE’s Forthcoming DVD
A Baptist Press news story validated the need for BCE's forthcoming DVD on faith and politics. Since EthicsDaily.com editorials often challenge the fundamentalist-controlled Southern Baptist Convention, an editorial...
Living Deliberately
In the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau walked away from his everyday life in Concord, Mass., in exchange for an intentional, uncomplicated life. "I went to the woods," Thoreau wrote in Walden, "because I wished to live...
Cal Thomas Questions Hillary Clinton’s Christianity
Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas declared Sen. Hillary Clinton "not a person who believes in the central tenets of Christianity" based on a recent article profiling the Democratic presidential candidate's faith. A July...
Transplant Tourism Calls for Moral Check
A shortage of human organs and tissues for transplants encourages unethical practices, said Rod Benson, director of the Center for Christian Ethics at Morling College in Sydney, Australia. "The serious shortfall in...
Christian Men’s Magazine Endorses Huckabee for President
A Christian men's magazine publisher challenged readers to donate $1 million to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, doubling the former Arkansas governor's political campaign war chest. New Man magazine...
Rick Scarborough’s New Crusade
Rick Scarborough's new idea of a crusade he launched in Lufkin, Texas, on July 5 is a radical departure from his past. His mentor, the late Jerry Falwell, claimed in the PBS Religious Right documentary that the old...
Gift Symbolizes Leadership Change in Baptist World Alliance
Ghana Baptist Convention president Steve Asante handed a traditional gift--an egg wrapped in a blue-and-white cloth--to Baptist World Alliance president David Coffey on the closing day of the July 2-7 BWA annual...
Africans Vulnerable to ‘Prosperity Gospel,’ BWA Group Says in Forum
"Prosperity gospel" churches compete with Baptist churches in Africa, especially for younger people, with promises of wealth and health, according to participants in a forum discussion Saturday at the Baptist World...
Missouri Passes Law Aimed at Reducing Abortions
Missouri's Southern Baptist governor has signed into law a bill that adds new restrictions to abortion clinics and bars groups that provide abortion services, like Planned Parenthood, from participating in...
We Need Lincoln’s Voice
Our recent trip to the Washington D.C. area did not afford my wife, Janet. and me nearly enough time for seeing historical sites. Since we stayed nearby, we did visit the battlefield at Manassas (or Bull Run, as the...
Florida Baptist Convention Sued Over Clergy Predator
A lawsuit filed last month claims the Florida Baptist Convention, a local Baptist association and a sponsoring mother church were negligent in recruiting a church planter now in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. The...
From Faith Comes Certainty
A thoughtful piece on President Bush's present state of mind caught my attention this past week. Written by Peter Baker, a staff writer at the Washington Post, the title asserts "a president besieged and isolated, yet...
Global Baptists Pledge to Fight Racism at Historic Site Related to Slave Trade
Gathered last Thursday on the Ghana coast at a former slave castle, global Baptists struck yet again at the manacles that have chained together for centuries whites and blacks in the tortured heritage of slavery,...
BWA Speaker Urges Reparations for Descendants of African Slaves
A Jamaican Baptist pastor forced the controversial question of compensation to modern-day African descendants for the imprisonment and forced labor of their ancestors at the annual gathering of the Baptist World...
Insurance Companies Shed Light on Extent of Sex Abuse in Protestant Churches
The Associated Press reported recently that three insurance companies receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused by Protestant clergy, challenging the assumption that clergy...
Democracy in the Dust: A Letter to George Bush
It's a little dangerous for the preacher to get political, I know. It's risky to speak truth to power, but the fact of the matter is, while government needs to keep itself out of institutional religion, our faith...
A Family Affair
Last Friday night the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. held a joint service in Washington, D.C. It was the closing session of the CBF General Assembly and the opening session...
Cal Thomas Compares Muslims to ‘Cancer’
Conservative commentator Cal Thomas compared Islam to a "slow-spreading cancer" in a Monday radio commentary about recent terror attacks in Scotland and London. The Council on American-Islamic Relations termed Thomas'...
Conservatism Not a Choice
A recent study released by the Baptist Journal of Behavioral Science concluded that conservatism is not a choice, but rather a genetic trait. Dr. Quack is quoted as saying: "For centuries, liberals have imposed their...
BWA Speaker Describes Suffering of Liberian Civil War
Liberia must unearth "deep remembering" to move toward reconciliation and healing after a 14-year civil war that killed more than 200,000 and displaced nearly everyone in the West African nation, a war victim turned...