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Southern Baptists Reject Scientific Consensus About Global Warming
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant body, passed a resolution Wednesday questioning whether human activity contributes significantly to global warming and urging governments to weigh...
I Remember the Alamo
The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention continues today in San Antonio, Texas. I am writing in Augusta, Ga., and I'm OK with that. Oh, I'd like to visit San Antonio again. It's a beautiful city, and the...
Debate Reveals Fault Lines in Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday previewed new fault lines developing between factions for exclusivity and accommodation in America's largest Protestant religious body. Tuesday night messengers in San...
Southern Seminary Dean Testifies before Senate about Global Warming
Russell Moore, dean of the school of theology for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the executive director of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement, testified last week about global warming...
‘Exit Strategy’ Advocate Wants to ‘Bankrupt’ Public Schools
An advocate of a Southern Baptist "exit strategy" from public schools says he wants to "bankrupt the American educational establishment one student at a time," because otherwise true educational reform is impossible....
Apology for Slavery Just a Step
The decision by the Alabama Legislature to pass a resolution apologizing for our state's role in slavery has provoked mixed responses. Some hail it as a step forward in healing a wound from our troubled past. Others...
For Southern Baptists, Racial Reconciliation Must Go Beyond Words to Deeds
Racial reconciliation can never be confused with the white dominant culture shedding crocodile tears while offering deep felt apologies. Unfortunately, this has been the pattern employed by my denomination, the...
SBC to Consider National Clergy Sex-Offender Database
A support group for victims of clergy-sex abuse welcomed a motion expected at this week's Southern Baptist Convention to study the feasibility of developing a database listing Southern Baptist ministers who have been...
Colson Warns Southern Baptists About Islam, Atheism
Prison Fellowship founder and Watergate hatchet man Charles Colson termed Islam "a vicious evil" and "Islamofascism"--a blending of religion and ideology present in the world today--"evil incarnate" in a message Sunday...
Overcoming the Politics of Fear with Faith
The politics of fear afflicts our culture and infects our congregations. "We have become a nation consumed by fear, worried about terrorists and rogue nations, Muslims and Mexicans, foreign companies and free trade,...
Pro-Life Leaders Accuse Dobson of Misleading Public About Supreme Court Ruling on Partial-Birth Abortion
A group of anti-abortion activists accuse Focus on the Family founder James Dobson of selling out the pro-life movement by applauding an April Supreme Court ruling upholding a federal ban on "partial-birth" abortion....
Victims’ Father Urges SBC President to Lead Fight Against Clergy Sexual Abuse
A father of two sons sexually abused by a youth minister at a Southern Baptist church in the 1990s encouraged Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page in an April e-mail to take a leadership position in...
SBC Leader Terms Theistic Evolution a Lie
Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler said last week on his call-in radio show that theistic evolution--the middle ground between belief in evolution and that God created the world directly--is a "lie"--and that...
Pride Comes Before a Fall
One Saturday night that seems like centuries ago, a phone call came from a woman who said she was secretary to Col. Harlan Sanders. I thought it was a joke by one of my colleagues. She went on to say the colonel was in...
Religious Leaders Label Immigration Bill Anti-Family
Progressive Christian leaders voiced moral outrage at Senate rejection of a plan to shorten the time legal immigrants must wait to bring their spouses and children to live with them and called on conservative groups...
Unofficial New Baptist Covenant Blog Launched
A moderate Baptist leader and communications co-chair for the New Baptist Covenant Celebration has volunteered to publish an unofficial Web log monitoring news and views about the confab scheduled early next year in...
Cluster Bombs and National Interest
At the same time as the Australian government is engaged in international talks aimed at securing a global treaty banning cluster bombs, the Defense Department has claimed that limitations on the Australian Defense...
Democratic Presidential Candidates Discuss Faith, Values on CNN
Former First Lady Hillary Clinton said Monday on national television she is unsure she would have gotten through her highly public marital problems without depending on her faith. As someone "tested in ways that are...
Congress Set to Vote on Relocating U.S. Embassy in Israel
The House of Representatives votes today on a resolution calling on President Bush to move the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem that a Christian Middle East peace group says could jeopardize an...
Is There A Future For The Free Churches?
I have been able during the past 16 years to witness at close hand the state of church relations in the United Kingdom, and for the past four years as moderator of the Free Churches Group have enjoyed an even closer...
LifeWay Study Finds Acceptance of Private Prayer Language
Half of Southern Baptist pastors believe God gifts some people with a "private prayer language," according to poll results released Friday by LifeWay Christian Resources, fueling a minor controversy ongoing on Baptist...