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Why Some People Like Sports
Near the end of the movie "Field of Dreams," when James Earl Jones' character explains the movement of time and history as guarded and guided by the movements of baseball, not everyone buys it. I did, because I like...
Holy Terror and Halloween
Halloween is here and as always there seems to be something for everyone. Kids get candy, big kids get beer and folks of all ages give expression to their alter egos by means of outrageous costumes. Of course, not...
Southern Baptists Deny Water Donated by Beer Company to Hurricane Victims
Matthew 10:42 says, "If anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward." But Hurricane Wilma victims at one...
Churches Use Scare Tactics on Halloween
For most Americans, Halloween means trick-or-treating, watching horror movies or at worst stringing toilet paper in trees. For many fundamentalist churches, however, 'tis the season for hellfire and brimstone, with...
Bush’s New Court Pick Praised, Pilloried For Conservative Record
President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court drew quick praise from religious conservatives. That includes some who were unconvinced that Bush's first choice, Harriet Miers, had the...
God Used Rosa Parks to Help Us Change Our Ways
Earlier this week, someone asked me a piercing question about the Sermon of the Mount: "Where is the line between turning the other cheek and being someone's doormat?" I found part of the answer later that day, when I...
Why Some People Like Sports
Near the end of the movie "Field of Dreams," when James Earl Jones' character explains the movement of time and history as guarded and guided by the movements of baseball, not everyone buys it. I did, because I like...
Abramoff Ties Could Hurt Ralph Reed in Georgia Race
Reports that a GOP lobbyist being investigated by federal officials for possible fraud sought the help of conservative strategist Ralph Reed could prompt political backlash for the former Christian Coalition head now...
Moral Reflections on the White House
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted today in a federal grand jury investigation into the disclosure of a CIA agency's identity. Cheney's long-time aid submitted his...
Miers Withdraws as Supreme Court Nominee
The White House on Thursday accepted Harriet Miers' withdrawal as a nominee for the Supreme Court, after weeks of attempting to shore up support for her confirmation among religious conservatives. Miers, 60, President...
Fox Markets Christian, Family Films at Faith Site
A major studio division is now setting up online shop for Christian consumers. Fox Home Entertainment recently launched www.foxfaith.com, a Web site promoting Twentieth Century Fox films with Christian and/or family...
What Praising Rosa Parks Should Mean
Nothing costs less than courage in the rearview mirror of history. Nothing is easier than praise for the departed. Nothing is more hypocritical than celebrating a virtuous life without seeking to live more virtuously....
Baptist Ministers Split on Moderate Drinking, Study Says
Baptists have long viewed drinking as a sin--publicly if not always in private. But a new study suggests ministers of the denomination are not of one mind when it comes to moderate consumption of alcohol. Fifty-three...
Italian Baptists Look to U.S.
I represent a small convention of Baptist churches, the Italian Baptist Union, around 120 churches more or less. Sociologically speaking in Italy we are a small minority. For us it is important, therefore, to look at...
Southern Baptists Slow to Embrace Rosa Parks
Baptist Press on Tuesday devoted a 1,770-word tribute to Rosa Parks, a black Christian woman credited with starting the civil rights movement in 1955. Commenting on her death at age 92, several Southern Baptist leaders...
Making Lemonade to Fight Cancer
You might think that 3-year-old children are too young to learn about cancer. You might think that cancer is a topic too heavy and deep for a teacher to be discussing with 3-year-olds. Under most circumstances that...
Senate Panel May Call Dobson to Testify
The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon James Dobson--and perhaps other evangelical leaders--to ask whether they received private assurances that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would vote to end...
South Carolina Church Avoids Ouster Over Homosexuality
A Baptist association in South Carolina averted a public battle over gay marriage when its executive committee reversed an earlier recommendation to remove a church whose pastor created controversy by testifying before...
Global Baptists Support the Micah Challenge, Will U.S. Baptists Get on Board?
Will Baptists in the United States join global Baptists in active support of the Micah Challenge? Will we do our own thing? Will we do anything at all? The Micah Challenge is a movement determined to make the 191...
‘Christian Exodus’ Seeks Biblically Based Government
The "Christian Exodus" has begun, albeit slowly, with a handful of families moving to South Carolina in hopes of leading thousands of other evangelicals to relocate and establish what founders envision as a...
A Campaign of Faithfulness
The decision by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore to enter the race to be Alabama's next governor ensures that the campaign will be filled with lots of God talk. Though Moore has stated the Ten Commandments will...