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Executive Committee Recommends Tighter Financial Controls
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee on Tuesday called on trustees of all SBC entities to exercise "fiscal responsibility" in setting compensation for top executives, while proposing sweeping policy...
Study Faults Bible Classes in Public Schools
A majority of Bible classes taught in Texas public high schools lack safeguards to protect the separation of church and state, according to a study by the Texas Freedom Network. The report, Reading, Writing and...
Catch an Illegal Alien
Wonder why some of us insist that the present Republican-led debate on immigration is a race-based attempt to win votes during the upcoming close election? Consider campaign activities organized by Morgan Wilkins for...
‘Darfur Diaries’
After the last image was shown of a Sudanese child whose future is uncertain, the theater was completely silent. The few hundred of us who came to watch "Darfur Diaries" were in a place of mixed emotions. On one hand,...
SBC Needs Revival, President Says
Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page told denominational leaders Monday night the nation's second-largest faith group needs God's help to solve its problems. Page, pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors,...
Censored Preacher Calls for Official Position on Speaking in Tongues
A pastor whose Aug. 29 chapel sermon was partially censored by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to add a statement concerning speaking in tongues to its articles...
James Dobson Is No Jesus
Those of us who know Jesus know James Dobson is no Jesus. Jesus warned against the hypocrisy of faulty faith: "Woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint … and neglect justice." "Woe" was a word of censorship that Jesus...
British Evangelical Head Issues Call for Unity
The head of Britain's evangelicals said if Christians allow themselves to become divided over "truth," there is something wrong with the truth they are telling. "Evangelicalism has become a synonym, in popular...
SBC Losing Relevancy, President Warns
Having won the "battle for the Bible" in the last two decades, the Southern Baptist Convention now risks losing a battle for cultural relevancy, the president of America's largest Protestant denomination said last...
‘Jesus Camp’
Becky Fischer believes children can fix a "sick old world." They just have to get on fire for Jesus. Fischer, an ordained Pentecostal minister, founded the "Kids on Fire" camp toward that end, and now that's the...
Can Baptists Save The World?
Is it possible that Southern Baptists could be the key to saving the world? E. O. Wilson seems to think so. Wilson, in case you don't know, is an Alabama native and former Southern Baptist layman. He is now one of...
Smyth & Helwys Owner Host to GOP Rally
Georgia State Senator Cecil Staton, president and CEO of Smyth & Helwys--the curriculum provider and book publisher of choice for theologically moderate southern Baptists--was host for a show of unity by Republican...
Bush’s Claim of a Third Awakening Diminishes His Credibility
President Bush spoke Tuesday about a "Third Awakening," a term tied to Christian revivalism in the United States. Meeting with conservative journalists for an hour and a half in the Oval Office, the president portrayed...
New Documentary Features Kids ‘Taking Back America for Christ’
"Jesus Camp" follows three children who attend Becky Fischer's charismatic "Kids on Fire" camp in North Dakota. What began as a documentary on devout children eventually morphed into a provocative project on how the...
The Armageddonists
I took the teenagers to the movie theater to see "An Inconvenient Truth," the presentation Al Gore has been doing around the world on global warming. We walked the mile and a half to the theater in 110-degree Oklahoma...
Muslim Leader Says Preacher Misunderstands Islam
An American Muslim leader said evangelical preachers would do well to learn about Islam before denouncing it from their pulpits. Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic...
‘Stay the Course’ Doesn’t Cut It, Change Is Needed
President Bush spoke simply and truthfully to the American people on Monday night from the Oval Office: "Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks." He deserves a checkmark for candor. That candor is in...
Seminary Sermon Blasts Islam, Praises Israel
A week after refusing post a sermon on its Web site containing remarks about speaking in tongues the administration viewed as theologically suspect, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary gave its blessing to a...
Ezekiel, Revelation and Iran
Recent end-times writings have been associating the development of nuclear arms in Iran with the depiction of Gog and Magog as found in Revelation 20:7-10. The terms Gog and Magog first appear in Ezekiel 38-39, a text...
Preachers View Middle East Conflict Through Lens of Bible Prophecy
"Is this the beginning of World War III?" queries the cover story in the September issue of Jerry Falwell's "National Liberty Journal." "The crisis in the Middle East is escalating beyond imagination," writes Edward...
The Lasting Effects of September 11
At the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is hard not to ask "What is different now?" Other than the obvious changes brought about by increased airport security, daily "alert updates," and wars in...