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Author Accuses Democrats of Faking Faith to Win Votes
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter accused Democrats of faking belief in God to win votes and claimed response to her most recent book proves that liberals admit they are godless. Most negative reaction to Coulter's...
45 Years of Isolation and Poverty Has Worked
We can tell when election year is at hand. The air has a certain stench about it. This is how the stench pot is fueled. Find an underpowered non-threatening enemy. Find some cluster of people powerless and...
American Baptist Leader Calls for Ceasefire in Lebanon
A U.S. Baptist official has added his name to the list of religious leaders calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East. Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., wrote...
‘The Tailenders’
The PBS documentary series "P.O.V." debuts its fifth film tonight with "The Tailenders," by filmmaker Adele Horne. Horne meshes "essay filmmaking" with an observational approach in her analysis of how a group of...
Christian Leaders Call on Political Leaders for Ceasefire in Lebanon
A Lebanese Baptist leader questioned how much longer Christians can continue to meet growing refugee demands in a country descending into a worsening war in an e-mail request for Sunday prayers. The United Nations...
Seminary President Says He Also Changed Mind on Women Pastors
Frank Page isn't the only Southern Baptist Convention leader to change his mind about women in ministry. In a Weblog last Wednesday commenting on a story in EthicsDaily.com revealing the newly elected SBC president's...
Baptist Foundation Officials Found Guilty of Fraud
Two former executives of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were convicted Monday on three counts of fraudulent schemes and one count of conducting an illegal enterprise. But a jury found them innocent on 23 counts of...
Baptist Leaders Ask for Prayers for Peace, Ceasefire in Lebanon
We invite you to pray for peace today. We specifically ask you to pray for three urgent needs: We invite you to pray for peace today. We specifically ask you to pray for three urgent needs: Pray for an end to the...
New Reality Show Searches for Inspirational Speakers
The Learning Channel's new eight-part reality series, "The Messengers," begins this Sunday with a "simple yet lofty goal: to find America's next great inspirational speaker." Ten individuals from various backgrounds...
Support an Immediate Ceasefire in Lebanon, All Noncombatants Are Equal
Instead of the United States exerting full diplomatic and political pressure on all parties to end hostilities, the Bush administration has turned a blind eye to noncombatant casualties in Lebanon and has blamed others...
The Voice of Faith Necessary in Social Issues
Christian groups in America have a long history of political activism. The issues may change from one generation to the next, but the impulse to reform society seems a constant feature of faith. The issues Christians...
Global Baptists Condemn Violence in Intensifying Middle East Crisis
Global Baptist leaders began speaking out late this week against the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, as the military and humanitarian crises worsened. "We condemn both terrorism and state-sanctioned violence,...
Partisan Politics Have No Place in Houses of Worship
Participation in our electoral process is a great privilege and responsibility for all citizens, including people of faith. Increasingly, however, politicians are intruding upon our houses of worship to appeal for our...
‘Unlikely Movie Star’ Gore Nabs Entertainment Mag Cover
Al Gore nabbed this week's cover of Entertainment Weekly. Surely, some will say, strange things are afoot on Planet Earth. "An Inconvenient Truth"—a documentary about global warming starring Al Gore presenting his...
SBC President Once Endorsed Women’s Ordination
The Southern Baptist Convention's new president says he agrees with the denomination's six-year-old statement that the Bible forbids women from serving as pastors, but his 1980 doctoral dissertation put forth a...
“An Inconvenient Truth”
"An Inconvenient Truth" is a riveting journey into one of the most ignored issues on the American landscape, one that demands our immediate attention, especially for those who belong to the community of truth. I needed...
Christian Media: More Clergy than Lay People Use It
Usage of Christian media is much higher for Protestant clergy than for Protestant lay people, a new survey shows. The survey, by Phoenix-based Ellison Research, found that 78 percent of Protestant churchgoers listen to...
Arab Baptists Help in Lebanon’s Worsening Humanitarian Situation
Lebanese refugees are increasing, civilians deaths are climbing and an Arab Baptist is speaking out as Israel and Hezbollah continue fighting. The Beirut Baptist School sheltered on Tuesday 760 Lebanese fleeing from...
Faith Versus Science, The Latest Chapter
Ever since Copernicus proposed that the earth was not the center of the universe, people of faith have been at odds with people of science. Whether true or not, the story of Galileo challenging the church's official...
Study Questions Private School Advantage
Students in public schools performed nearly as well as those in private schools, while eighth graders in conservative Christian schools were actually behind their public school counterparts in math, according to a new...
Mark Twain’s ‘War Prayer’
Mark Twain in March, 1905, was outraged by the American military invasion of the Philippines. So he wrote "The War Prayer" and sent it to "Harper's Bazaar." Being a women's magazine, it was rejected. It wasn't...