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‘Sophie Scholl–The Final Days’
In modern times, there has never been so grand a stage for the battle between good and evil as World War II. Great leaders and common soldiers amassed for epic battles and bold gambits that would rewrite world history....
Is America Ready For A Mormon President?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, is America's own home grown religion. Founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, the Mormon movement began by embracing all that was already...
‘Failure to Launch’
"Failure to Launch," which opens nationwide today, stars Matthew McConaughey as Tripp, a 30-something slacker who refuses to leave his parents' home. When mom and dad (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw) decide enough is...
Some Religious Leaders Still View Church Fires as Attack on Christianity
While federal investigators described the motive behind last month's cluster of church fires in Alabama as a prank that got out of hand, some religious leaders were unconvinced. "When a church is burned and attacked in...
College ‘Pranksters’ Charged with Alabama Church Fires
Nine fires set at Baptist churches in Alabama last months apparently were neither racially motivated hate crimes nor attacks on organized religion or the Baptist faith, but instead a prank that got out of hand,...
Selling Civil Rights
Andy, say it isn't so! Tell us you didn't sell your legacy for a pot of pottage! I simply cannot believe that you, who had walked with Martin Luther King, who had fought for justice, who had defended the marginalized,...
Adrian Rogers’ Son Speaks Out on IMB Policy Changes
The son of Adrian Rogers, a 16-year missionary with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, says in an open letter to IMB trustees he does not believe his father would agree with new policies regarding...
‘Crash’
Scientists use a machine called a particle collider to smash atomic particles at a high speed to break them into smaller, more elementary parts, thus allowing study of even simpler, more basic parts of physical matter....
Article Says ‘Arminians’ Don’t Have Place in SBC
Would Herschel Hobbs have a place in today's Southern Baptist Convention? In an article reportedly due out in an upcoming issue of SBC Life, Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Seminary, dismissed statements...
The Budget’s Bottom Line
In his State of the Union address, President Bush said: "Our greatness is not measured in power or luxuries, but by who we are and how we treat one another. So we strive to be a compassionate, decent, hopeful society,"...
Missionary to Jews Leaving NAMB
The Southern Baptist Convention's coordinator of Jewish ministries is leaving his post at the North American Mission Board after 10 years to direct a program at Criswell College training Christians in "Jewish...
Remembrance
We gathered at 43rd and Market in Louisville, Ky., for the second time in the past several years to mark another senseless murder. This time a 23-year-old man's life was ended forever because of a disagreement, or a...
Majority Rules
In George Orwell's classic novel "Animal Farm," we are introduced to the saying, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Changing "animals" with "religions" could describe the sentiment of...
Faith-Based Initiative Five Years Old
President Bush's faith-based initiative, launched as a centerpiece of his administration's domestic agenda, recently passed its five-year anniversary without notice. A few weeks after he took office in January 2001,...
Another IMB Trustee Wades into Blogosphere
A trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board has started a Web log to counter criticism that the board acted improperly in calling for removal of a fellow trustee. Jerry Corbaley, an IMB...
Magazine Profiles ‘Home-Church’ Movement
Best known for drawing multiple thousands of people to high-profile worship services, one secret to the success of the megachurch, the dominant model for church growth in the 1990s, experts agree, is the less-noticed...
Ecumenical Leader Says Southern Baptist Prof Limiting God
A Southern Baptist seminary professor who challenged a World Council of Churches leader for saying the Holy Spirit "reaches in mysterious ways to people of all faiths" is guilty of placing limits on God, a U.S....
Lent Is a Time for Restoring Authentic Faith
For millions of Christians this past week marked the beginning of our most Holy season--Easter. We start with Ash Wednesday, a day devoted to recalling God's embrace of our humanity. Many believers wear the mark of the...
Connecting Your Faith With Your World
We're in a celebratory mood today for two good reasons: The Centre for Christian Ethics has turned two, and the so-called Breen Bill has been defeated. Yesterday [March 1] marked the second anniversary of the...
Southern Baptist Professor Denounces Ecumenical Group
A Southern Baptist professor quoted in Baptist Press denounced an ecumenical body that includes nearly all the world's Orthodox and numerous Protestant denominations as a "boutique of paganism in Christian garb" with...
‘Walk the Line’
Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon literally light up the screen in "Walk the Line," bringing to vibrant life Johnny Cash and his great love, June Carter. "Walk the Line," just released on DVD, tells...