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Senate Report Links Ralph Reed to Abramoff, Indian Gambling Interests
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed more than $5.3 million from money Abramoff charged Indian tribes to fight measures that would have cut into their gambling profits, according to a...
Georgia Church Aligns With Virginia Baptists
Our unanimous vote Sunday night to expand our ministry partners to include three new partners, and especially the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV), is a significant and substantial decision. Others may...
American Baptist Board Divests from Sudan
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. National Ministries has voted to divest its Common Investment Fund of corporations doing business in Sudan. Friday's unanimous vote by the finance committee of the board...
‘No More Tears Sister’
The documentary series P.O.V. kicks off its 19th season on PBS tonight with the hour-long "No More Tears Sisters," about slain human rights activist Dr. Rajani Thiranagama. Canadian filmmaker Helene Klodawsky uses...
Gore Speaks about Clergy, Politics
Evangelical clergy are breaking with the Bush-Cheney view on global warming, said Al Gore in response to a question on Friday from EthicsDaily.com. "Eighty-five conservative evangelical ministers joined as a group to...
A Christ-Haunted Culture
Southern literary icon, Flannery O'Connor once said: "By and large, people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."...
Documentary set in Nazi Era Relevant for Church Today, Panelists, Viewers Agree
After viewing a documentary film about Christian acquiescence to and support for Nazi Germany in the 1930s, an audience member noted a startling parallel. "I haven't heard us say anything about the war we're currently...
Gore Stresses Moral Imperative on Global Warning in Interview
Scientific truth about global warming carries a moral imperative for action, former vice president and presidential candidate Al Gore said Friday in an interview with EthicsDaily.com. "The moment you accept what the...
Magazine Says White House Carried Out ‘Secret Campaign’ to Deny Global Warming
"Rolling Stone" magazine has published a 5,000-word investigative story accusing the Bush administration of carrying out a "secret campaign" to deny global warming aimed at misleading the public and to forestall any...
NCC Head Urges Christian Unity Around Teachings of Jesus
The head of America's leading ecumenical group said Christians can learn to live together around values that Jesus taught: peace, poverty, respect for Planet Earth, people's rights and commitment to pluralism. "We are...
Why Do You Stay a Baptist?
I've recently been involved in some leadership coaching training that has taken place in a very ecumenical setting. My fellow students have come from a wide array of denominational groups, and it has been a pleasure....
Women Ministers Make Gains in Baptist Life, But Have Far to Go, Report Says
More women are serving as Baptist pastors and co-pastors than at any time in history, but statistically the vast majority of even progressive churches have not yet opened their pulpits to females, according to an...
‘Cars’
Hybrids are the latest technology in automobiles, pairing the power of a gasoline engine with the smooth economy of an electric motor. But "Cars," the latest offering from Disney/Pixar, is a hybrid of a different and...
Baptist Congressman Can’t Name Ten Commandments
A Baptist Congressman who wants to require displaying the Ten Commandments in the U.S. Capitol couldn't name them when put on the spot by Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert. Appearing on "The Colbert Report," a satire...
Leaders Laud Robert Parham on 15 Years Leadership of BCE
Thursday's celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Baptist Center for Ethics is also a milestone for its founder and executive director, Robert Parham. Parham's 15th anniversary with BCE coincides with the...
CBF Appointment Service Represents ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Missions
For the first time, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship isn't appointing any new career missionaries this year. Nineteen new field personnel are scheduled to be commissioned at the close of this week's CBF General...
The Myth of Color-Blindness
For the past half millennium, racial and ethnic forms of economic oppression were normalized and legitimatized in the eyes of the overwhelming majority of Euroamericans, an entrenched understanding that found legal...
Trial Nears End for Baptist Foundation of Arizona Execs
Arizona's assistant attorney general said Monday in closing arguments that neither defendant in the 10-month Baptist Foundation of Arizona fraud trial committed their crime for money. William Pierre Crotts, the BFA's...
Churches Toll Bells to Remember War Dead
Thousands of American churches will ring their bells next weekend to mark a mournful milestone. The Pentagon announced June 15 that the 2,500th U.S. military volunteer had died in Iraq. "This is a tragedy that...
Raising Minimum Wage Is a Moral Issue
Editor's note: The following is the text of remarks prepared by Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, for delivery at a "Raise Oklahoma Rally" Monday on the steps of the Oklahoma State...
School Reform Won’t Work, Author of Failed SBC Resolution Contends
A Southern Baptist Convention resolution urging reform of public education by calling for church members to run for school boards might have been an effective strategy for changing schools in 1906, but not 2006, says a...