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Bloggers Weigh in on EthicsDaily.com Story Quoting Falwell
Links to a Friday story in EthicsDaily.com popped up around the Internet, as bloggers from the right, left and middle took exception to Jerry Falwell's assertion that Satan is using global warming to distract...
John Edwards Discusses Faith
Former senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards identified poverty, healthcare, genocide and AIDS as the greatest moral issues facing America in a Beliefnet interview, adding he believes Jesus would...
Lawyer Says Former Southern Baptist Pastor Innocent of Sex Charge
The lawyer for a former Southern Baptist pastor charged with using the Internet to entice a minor for sexual purposes said his client is looking forward to his day in court. "My client maintains that he didn't do...
Credit Cards Continue To Eat Us Alive
On the subject of those well-known plastic credit cards, I discovered that even if you make your payments on time, the credit card bank can raise your interest rate automatically. If you're late on payments...
Agility Key to Missions in New Era
I recently blogged about the baggage we can carry into missions planning and execution that becomes an impediment to carrying out effective missions work. Agility is the key, and I listed some mindsets, or baggage, I...
Moderate Baptist Lay Leader John Baugh Dead at 91
John Baugh, a business entrepreneur and major supporter of moderate Baptist causes, died Monday after several years of declining health. He was 91. The founder of SYSCO, the leading supplier to...
Evangelical Leaders Call for Ouster of NAE Staffer for Views on Global Warming
Evangelical leaders including James Dobson and Rick Scarborough signed a March 1 letter calling on the National Association of Evangelicals to remove a staff member they blame for dividing conservative Christians over...
BCE Directors Endorse ‘New Baptist Covenant’
Baptist Center for Ethics directors adopted a resolution of support for a "New Baptist Covenant Celebration" scheduled in Atlanta Jan. 30-Feb. 1 in 2008. Robert Parham, executive director of the Nashville-based BCE and...
Coulter Slurs Homosexuals, Smears John Edwards
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has once again slurred Democrats and homosexuals. Her hate speech on Friday drew forthright disavowal from three Republican presidential candidates--Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and...
Former SBC President Defends Denomination’s Record Against Clergy Sex Abuse
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Jerry Vines defended the denomination's current leaders against charges they are being soft on sexual abuse by clergy. Despite "genuine concern" by SBC leaders, the former...
Baptist Democrats Are ‘Doers of the Word’
Three Baptist Democrats are "doers of the word," what Jesus' brother James commended Christians to be. James wrote, "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." When these three Democrats are...
Living in a New Light
Our Lenten journey corresponds to the lengthening of days now that the rotation of the earth around the sun has given our planet a new orientation toward our mother star whose light and heat makes life possible. Our...
Falwell Says Global Warming Tool of Satan
Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell, who has worked for decades to involve conservative Christians in politics, said Sunday the debate over global warming is a tool of Satan being used to distract churches from their...
A Faithful Response to the War
Here's what we know. First, our reasons for going to war in Iraq were almost entirely based on fabrications and fantasies. There were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and...
Only in America
The slight young man stood on the dais of the Democratic Convention and began by saying how remarkable it was that he was there. It was July 27, 2004, and the first time the nation had heard from this Kenyan-American,...
Laura Bush Talks about Stress in the White House
First Lady Laura Bush says her husband deals with the pressures of being commander in chief over an increasingly unpopular war by exercise, rest and going to church. Discussing on "Larry King Live" her efforts to alert...
Scholars Dispute Documentary Claiming Tomb Belonged to Jesus Christ
A new book and Discovery Channel documentary airing March 4 claim a 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in 1980 might contain trace DNA remains of Jesus and his family. Archeologists say it may be good TV, but there is...
Faith-based Challenge Headed to Court
The U.S. Supreme Court today hears arguments in the first legal challenge to President Bush's creation of White House and cabinet offices for faith-based initiatives. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion...
Falwell Newspaper Says War with Iran Prophesied in Bible
The March cover story of Jerry Falwell's National Liberty Journal says the world may be on the brink of a major war foretold in the Bible as a precursor to the return of Christ. The story, headlined "Are We on the...
Neighbor-Loving Isn’t Mere Neighborliness
Jesus said that everything normative, all of Christian ethics, hangs on just two rules: Love God, and love your neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40). St. John wrote, in plain and simple Greek, that we can not fulfill the first...
Lawyer Seeks Dismissal of Lewdness Charge Against Former SBC Leader
A former pastor and Southern Baptist Convention leader arrested a year ago in a gay-sex sting operation shouldn't be punished, because the act he proposed to an undercover police officer in Oklahoma City isn't against...