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The Grace of Saying ‘I Don’t Know’
Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged Tuesday that the violence in Iraq is not yet abating, and that the process of handing over security to Iraqi forces has "a long way to go," according to an NPR report. The...
Holy Terror and Halloween
Halloween is here and as always there seems to be something for everyone. Kids get candy, big kids get beer and folks of all ages give expression to their alter egos by means of outrageous costumes. Of course, not...
Dobson Reaches New Low in ‘Godless’ Interview
In their book "Blinded by Might" conservative Christians Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson chided Religious Right leaders for becoming too involved in politics. In one chapter entitled "Focus on the Family, Not on Politics,"...
BGCT Officials Step Down Amid Spending Probe
Two Baptist General Convention of Texas staff members have stepped down following a five-month investigation into possible misuse of funds. Abe Zabeneh, a church starter and former director of the BGCT Church Starting...
SBC Clergy Predators ‘Wolves’ in the Church
When congregational autonomy becomes an excuse for failing to protect kids against sexual predators, then it is part of an immoral construct. That is the perversion I see in the country's largest Protestant...
Baptist Obesity
The table was laden with sausage, fried bologna, bacon, from scratch biscuits, flour gravy, cheese grits, scrambled eggs, assorted jellies and jams and slices of cantaloupe. The hot topic of the day was the news of a...
Baptist Confessions of Faith: Use and Abuse
LEARNING FROM BAPTIST HISTORY Editor's note: As part of an emphasis leading up to Baptists' 400th anniversary in 2009, EthicsDaily.com is running a series of columns by staff of the Baptist History and Heritage Society...
‘My Country, My Country’
The PBS documentary series "P.O.V." concludes its 2006 season tonight with "My Country, My Country," which chronicles the run-up to the 2005 Iraqi elections. The genius of filmmaker Laura Poitras' approach, however,...
Supporters of BGCT Leadership Launching Blog
A group of Texas pastors plans to launch a Web log next week defending current leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas accused in an existing blog of mismanagement. David Montoya, pastor of Calvary Baptist...
Their Terrorists and Ours
A bomb explodes aboard a plane, downing the airliner and killing all on board. At a hotel in a busy tourist section of the city another bomb explodes, killing and wounding vacationing Europeans. These acts were...
The Last Temptation of the Church
A new book out claims the Bush administration has used its unique and highly visible connections to conservative evangelicals merely for political gain. David Kuo, author of Tempting Faith, served for three years as...
Public Education Has Advocate with Mercer University’s First Lady
As first lady of Mercer University, Lesli Underwood is most closely identified with Christian higher education. But she also is a strong advocate for public schools. "Public education advances democracy because it...
Seminary Professor Extols ‘Violence of God’
Christians should not return evil for evil, because they can rely on the "violence of God" to exact justice on Judgment Day, a Southern Baptist seminary professor and administrator said in a recent chapel service....
SBC Officer Supports Exodus from Public Schools
The second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention is a strong supporter of a movement to urge parents to pull their children out of public schools in favor of homeschooling or private Christian schools....
‘Black Gold’
The black gold of this new documentary isn't oil. It's coffee. British filmmaking brothers Marc and Nick Francis have fashioned a gripping work about this most precious of commodities, and they've done so by tracing...
Bush Denies that Iraq Policy Is Stay the Course, Misleads Public
President Bush gave a stunning disclaimer when asked Sunday on "ABC's This Week" to explain the difference between "stay the course" and "cut and run" in the war in Iraq. "We've never been stay the course, George!"...
Evangelist Says Hastert Broke Promise to Resign
An eccentric and controversial evangelist has claimed that House Speaker Dennis Hastert broke a promise to resign within seven days after they met and prayed together Oct. 10 at the speaker's home. The Associated Press...
Clergy Predators Are As Crafty As Cyber-Predators
In the wake of the Foley scandal, parents feel more vulnerable about their kids' cyber-safety. Sales are soaring for software that can track kids' online activity. As parents, we want to know who the predators are, and...
‘Flicka’
I tend to compare all horse movies to "The Man from Snowy River." That 1982 Australian film offers not only beautiful horses but also breathtaking scenery, a solid coming-of-age story, an engaging familial conflict,...
SBC Officer Decries Appointment of ‘Sodomite’ AIDS Ambassador
A Southern Baptist Convention official criticized the White House for putting an openly gay physician in charge of the United States policy to combat global AIDS. "I think it's a tragedy to have a sodomite living with...
‘Exit Strategy’ Resolutions Submitted to Record Number of State Conventions
Resolutions calling for an "exit strategy" from public schools will be submitted at every state and regional convention in the continental United States this fall, advocates of the "exodus" movement announced...