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SBC President Says Denomination Looking Into Sex Offender Registry
Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page said in an interview aired Friday on network television the nation's largest Protestant organization is looking into creating a national registry of clergy sex...
Bush Models Giving, Cheney Shows Scrooge Nature
Dick Cheney made more than twice what George Bush did in 2006 and gave half as much as a percentage of income to charity as his boss. President Bush and his wife, Laura, gave over 12 percent to charity, according to...
Mr. De La Torre Goes to Washington
I am honored today to participate in a press conference in our nation's capitol. Basically, I, along with several hundred clergy from around the nation, gather to urge Congress to pass two pieces of legislation before...
Senate Passes Stem-Cell Measure; Bush Promises Veto
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to allow federal funding of research using embryonic stem cells. President Bush said he would veto the bill, just as he did in July. Nineteen Republicans joined 44...
Pastors Seek Action on Clergy Sexual Abuse
Two reform-minded Southern Baptist pastors said Thursday they plan to ask the nation's largest Protestant denomination to get tougher on the problem of clergy sexual abuse. Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist...
’20/20′ Airs Report on Predator Preachers
A story about a six-month investigation by ABC News on preacher predators in Protestant churches--including the Southern Baptist Convention--aired Friday on "20/20." While not interviewed on camera, EthicsDaily.com...
New Baptist Covenant Web Site Launched
Organizers of next year's New Baptist Covenant Celebration unveiled a new Web site Wednesday promoting "an authentic and genuine Baptist voice in North America." "Our goal is to have a major demonstration of harmony...
Thompson Says Lymphoma Won’t Affect Decision About Running for President
Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson said Wednesday he was diagnosed with lymphoma more than two years ago, but he is in remission and doesn't expect the cancer to shorten his life expectancy. Thompson, 64, lesser...
Seminary Seeks Dismissal of Gender Lawsuit
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary filed a motion April 9 asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed a month earlier claiming gender discrimination. Sheri Klouda, now a professor at Taylor University in Upland,...
BCE Offering Luke 4 Bible Study to Support ‘New Baptist Covenant’ Gathering
June 1 is target release date for an online Bible study produced by the Baptist Center for Ethics leading up to a New Baptist Covenant Celebration scheduled early next year in Atlanta. The eight-week study, to be...
The Moral Dilemma of Homelessness
It is a familiar scene. You are walking along a busy sidewalk when suddenly a shabbily dressed man or woman approaches and asks for any loose change. What do you do? We have all been told that any money we give goes...
Hindu Group Accuses Southern Baptist Web Sites of Hate Speech
An organization claiming to represent 2 million American Hindus includes Southern Baptist Convention Web sites in a report citing "hatred and intolerance" toward the Hindu faith on the Internet. A 52-page report by the...
Bush Pushes Immigration Reform
President Bush on Monday visited a Border Patrol station in Yuma, Ariz., to issue tough talk about border control, an effort to win support for comprehensive immigration reform among conservative members of his own...
Church Arsonists Sentenced to Prison
A federal judge in Birmingham on Monday sentenced three former college students to prison for setting fire to nine rural Alabama churches in 2006. According to the Birmingham News U.S. District Judge David Proctor...
What Will the Hammond Era Mean for the BGAV?
The trustees of the North American Mission Board took an unprecedented step March 19 when they unanimously elected Geoff Hammond to be NAMB's new president. What makes his election interesting to Virginia Baptists is...
Dismantle False Wall of Church Autonomy That Protects Child Predator Preachers
Baptist leaders claim they have no authority over autonomous churches to police clergy who sexually abuse children. "We believe in the autonomy of the local church," wrote Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist...
The Color of Money in America
Just as First World conditions exist among the elite in the Third World, Third World conditions exist in the First World. According to data released from the Internal Revenue Service, the share of U.S. income in 2005...
Baptist Professor Accused of Fraud
A trusted and well-known economics professor at a Baptist university in South Carolina stands accused of swindling an estimated 300 individuals and companies out of $134 million in an investment scheme. The U.S....
Easter Shadows
Our Lenten journey is over. Our pilgrimage of faith merely has reached a resting place. Season by season--Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter--we move through many journeys. Taken together they define our pilgrimage of...
‘A Poor Man’s Field May Produce Abundant Food, But Injustice Sweeps It Away’ (Prov. 13:23)
Ronald Rolheiser tells this story. Once upon a time there was a town that was built just beyond the bend of a large river. One day some of the children from the town were playing beside the river when they noticed...
Gingrich Clarifies ‘Ghetto’ Remark–en Espanol
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich went on YouTube to say--in both Spanish and English--he didn't mean to offend Latinos with his recent remarks criticizing "language of the ghetto." "This past weekend I made some...