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‘Joshua Convergence’ Joins SBC Fracas
New battle lines are being drawn in the Southern Baptist Convention, this time between younger conservatives who agree on both biblical inerrancy and need for the "conservative resurgence" against perceived liberalism...
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Church Politics
With midterm elections just around the corner, political activity is rumbling towards a resounding crescendo. Included among this political chorale are voices from various elements of the faith community. The political...
Baptist Foundation of Arizona Executives Sentenced to Prison
Two former Baptist Foundation of Arizona executives were sentenced to prison Friday and ordered to pay $159 million in restitution in a fraud case involving what is thought to be the largest non-profit bankruptcy in...
DVD Urges Baptists to Open Their Hand to the Poor
Christians who feel overwhelmed by the scope of global poverty sometimes seek consolation in Jesus' words in Matthew 26:11, "The poor you will always have with you," while neglecting a commandment that goes...
What is Our Generation?
My friend and I were talking and she mentioned something about how our generation is unconventional. When I got home from her house I started thinking: what is our generation? We are a different generation. The old has...
Cool People Care–Why I Did It
It started innocently enough. It was a phrase I saw randomly that I thought would make a neat T-shirt for the college crowd. I saw it in my mind's eye, emblazoned in white across black T-shirts the world over. It was a...
Southern Baptist Leaders Challenged to Get Tough on Sex Abuse by Clergy
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Alleged survivors of clergy sex abuse gathered in front of headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday, calling on the nation's second-largest faith group to take concrete steps to protect...
CBF, Baptist Press Numbers Flap Unnecessary, Misguided
Poet and novelist Victor Hugo once remarked, "The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height." Southern Baptist leaders, on the other hand, seem to believe...
Major Studio Launches ‘Faith’ Brand for Christian Consumers
When sizing up which movie to see, buy or rent, some cinephiles might bypass the PG and look instead for the FF: Fox Faith. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced its Fox Faith brand and label Sept. 20,...
‘Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers’
If you're not familiar with this movie, you can probably guess by the title it's not exactly a love letter to Halliburton. "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" is the latest film from Robert Greenwald--the man who took...
New American Baptist Association in the Works
American Baptists disagreeing with a May vote by a region to sever ties with American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. over homosexuality are scheduled to meet Sept. 30 in an informational gathering in anticipation of...
Republican Leader Accuses Christian Right of Republican Party Takeover
Former Republican Senator John Danforth has done what very few Republican Party leaders are willing to do--take on the Christian Right and criticize their own party for allowing itself to be taken over by the Christian...
Baptist Press Columnist Berates Public Schools
A Southern Baptist columnist dismissed a recent magazine cover story suggesting that schools are pushing children too hard and too soon toward academic achievement but bashed public education as hostile to...
Marks Of An Authentic Church
Jesus said that we would be known by our love. Lately though, we people of faith, Christians in particular, are better known for our politics. Admittedly it is the political season and candidates grab for whatever...
Hillary Would Outdraw Satan, Falwell Says
Conservative evangelical voters fear a President Hillary Clinton more than the devil, Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell said in remarks reported Sunday. "I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate," Falwell said...
Change Dividing Southern Baptist Mega-Church
Rick Warren's "Purpose-Driven" church model is being blamed in a developing split in one of the Southern Baptist Convention's most prominent churches. Two weeks ago the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story...
‘Flyboys’
The World War I aircraft in "Flyboys" fill the European skies with a wobbly grace. No wonder, for though the airplane—as a modern invention—was still finding its wings, some young Americans had already found aerial...
Baptists, Jews and Witness
Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish year 5767, begins at sunset Friday, Sept. 22. It is the first of 10 days of repentance, leading up to the holiest of days, Yom Kippur, sunset Oct. 1 through nightfall Oct. 2....
Coulter Big Draw at Georgia Christian Coalition
Conservative author and television pundit Ann Coulter helped the Christian Coalition of Georgia raise $150,000 at a weekend fund-raiser, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Saturday evening...
Judge Strikes Down Georgia Voter ID Law
An Atlanta judge on Tuesday struck down the latest version of Georgia's controversial law requiring voters to show a photo ID, saying it violates the state constitution. "The right to vote is a fundamental right of...
Will Southern Baptists Vote for an African-American Baptist?
No political race is more telling about state of race relations within American Christianity than the one in Tennessee, where an African-American Democratic congressman is running for a U.S. Senate seat against a white...