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Onward Christian Warmongers
A faith-based group calling itself "Christians Reviving America's Values," or CRAVE, is concerned about the way the war in Iraq is being fought. As a Christian group we might think they are alarmed by the level of...
Doing the Right Thing
What would you do if you learned that three of your friends were planning to do something criminal? Matt Atkinson, a high school senior at East High School in Green Bay, Wis., was told by three of his friends that they...
Former Baptist Foundation of Arizona Official Sentenced to Prison
A third former Baptist Foundation of Arizona official was sentenced to prison Friday for his role in a half-billion-dollar affinity fraud. Donald Dale Deardoff, 49, the BFA's former treasurer, received four years in...
After Refusing to Hear the Bible, Will We Listen to God Through Science?
The Bible spoke first about humans guarding garden Earth from harm, but Bible listeners did not hear. The Bible said God entrusted us with the assignment to be responsible for the earth, but Bible interpreters did not...
NEA President Terms Education/Faith Summit ‘Beginning of Something Big’
The head of the nation's largest teacher union hailed a summit meeting for clergy and educators initiated by the Baptist Center for Ethics an historic first step toward building bridges between public schools and...
Seeing Worlds beyond the Sky
Early this morning some men in top hats and tuxedos pulled a groundhog from a plush burrow in Punxsutawney, Pa. In the glare of cameras, the leader of the group pronounced whether or not "Phil" had seen his shadow....
Does Jesus love Osama?
Scores of churches around Australia this week are displaying large posters with the words, "Jesus loves Osama." The poster is part of a series of advertisements designed by Outreach Media to promote what it sees as...
Conference Examines Relationship Between Churches and Public Schools
Christians should support public education not as mission field for conversion, but out of a commitment to the common good, Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics told a Thursday gathering of educators and...
Losing Organized Labor
Organized labor, on its best days, attempts to do what Martin Luther King encouraged us all to do: develop a kind of "dangerous unselfishness." Organized labor, on its best days, attempts to do what Martin Luther King...
Refusing to ‘Get the Gay Out’ of Senior Gathering, State Leaves Baptist Venue
New Mexico's state department on aging is moving its annual conference away from Baptist-owned LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center rather than accepting restrictions on discussion of gay issues. The New Mexico Aging and...
Huckabee Pressed on ‘Take This Nation Back for Christ’ Comment
Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told NBC's Tim Russert he wouldn't "replace the Capitol dome with a steeple" but made no apologies for past statements saying America needs to turn to...
LifeWay Sanitizes Online Catalogue
LifeWay Christian Resources removed a number of books from its online bookstore after EthicsDaily.com reported Monday that a number of titles were written by pro-homosexual authors. Rob Phillips, LifeWay's director of...
Losing Organized Labor
Why do so many Christians in the U.S. despise organized labor? Today, only 12.5 percent of the American workforce is unionized, whereas in 1954 nearly a third of all working Americans were members of a union. Nearly 4...
Comments on Presidential Libraries
The New York Times Jan. 21 opinion piece by Stanley Fish of Duke University commended the George W. Bush's Presidential Library be housed at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Writing opinions can be dangerous....
Strong to the ‘Finich’
This month one of my childhood heroes marked his 78th anniversary in the entertainment business—Popeye the Sailor. Popeye made his debut on Jan. 17, 1929, in a comic strip in the New York Evening Journal. I got to know...
Victims’ Advocates Criticize Bellevue Response to Minister’s Sexual Abuse
Victims' advocates of clergy sex abuse cut little slack for leaders of Bellevue Baptist Church, who said mistakes were made in failing to disclose a former long-time minister's admission that he molested his son 17...
Bellevue Report Faults Handling of Minister’s Sexual Abuse
Bellevue Baptist Church was "ill-prepared on several fronts" to handle a long-time staff member's confession that he sexually abused his son 17 years earlier, according to an investigative team report delivered to the...
Luke 4:18-19 Is Greatest Challenge Facing New Covenant Baptists
The new Baptist covenant group faces no greater challenge than the Bible, specifically the chosen text of Luke 4:18-19, around which we will organize the 2008 celebratory gathering. That text makes all other issues...
Gay-Friendly Authors Populate SBC’s LifeWay Site
In 2005 the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution urging churches to be on guard against homosexual influences in public schools. But a conservative Web site says the nation's largest Protestant body might...
Building a Big Baptist Tent
The word "Baptist," and especially Southern Baptist, is for many a synonym for Republican politics. Many Baptist leaders such as Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, have enjoyed...
The Season of Lent at Watts Street Baptist Church
Ready… set… go!! Using the liturgical calendar encourages me to walk through the "ready, set" part of the spiritual journey. Keeping the liturgical seasons gives me a sense of rhythm and encourages me to set aside time...