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The Challenge of Christian Education: An Interview With Israel Galindo
Following is an interview Acacia Resources conducted with Israel Galindo, professor of Christian education at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond and executive director of Educational Consultants, Inc. Galindo...
Atlanta Cafe Reaches Out to Homeless
Bryce Courtenay wrote a novel, "The Power of One," showing how one person, doing what he or she knows to be right, can change a corner of their world for the better. Ann Connor, an assistant professor at Emory...
Alliance of Baptists Organizes in Brazil
Reacting to fundamentalism in Southern Baptist-influenced state conventions in Brazil, about 60 Brazilian Baptists have started an organization modeled after the Alliance of Baptists in the United States, paving the...
Bush High Court Nominee Member of Conservative Evangelical Church
President Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court is an evangelical Christian and longtime member of a Dallas church whose preaching pastor is arguably the most influential...
Bush High Court Nominee Member of Conservative Evangelical Church (Updated)
President Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court is an evangelical Christian and longtime member of a Dallas church whose preaching pastor is arguably the most influential...
‘Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis’
Few politicians approach their understanding of the role of government in terms of Christian ethics. Jimmy Carter does. This is a powerful book written by one whose political career may suffer from mixed reviews by...
‘Serenity’
I never watched "Firefly," the FOX TV show on which "Serenity" is based. I therefore am not part of the cult following that will flock to this picture, much like X-Philes turned out for the 1998 feature based on the...
‘Oliver Twist’
As far as film adaptations of Charles Dickens go, Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" is a good one. "Twist," which opens nationwide today, features the always lovely Ben Kingsley as Fagin and relative newcomer Barney...
‘The Greatest Game Ever Played’
"The Greatest Game Ever Played" is based on a book … which is based on a true story … which happened in 1913. It's a PG film that could pass as a G, and you may not recognize most of the actors. Whether these are...
European Baptists Endorse Global Anti-Poverty Campaign
European Baptist leaders have endorsed a global campaign aimed at mobilizing evangelical Christians to fight poverty. The European Baptist Federation Council, meeting Sept. 22-25 in Prague, Czech Republic, called on...
Learning From Our Adversaries
Long ago Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Who do you say that I am?" Nothing clarifies a person's thinking on this question like going head to head with an antagonist. And if a single antagonist clarifies, a tag-team...
Bill Bennett’s Remark Criticized as Racist
Former Reagan administration education secretary Bill Bennett refused to back down from comments widely criticized as racist. Bennett, a popular social commentator with the religious right, questioned accuracy of a...
House Action Blurs Line Between Church and State
The U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to allow religious social-service providers that receive federal money to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion. At issue, of course, is current federal law...
World Suffers Consequences of Bush’s Refusal to Heed Wisdom of Christian Leaders
If President Bush had only listened to America's real Christian leaders, then our nation would not have had 1,923 military fatalities and 14,265 soldiers wounded in action. The nation would not have wasted over $200...
Hostage Heroine Admits to Drug Use
Atlanta hostage hero Ashley Smith, who won the trust of fugitive and murder suspect Brian Nichols by reading to him from Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life," reveals in a new book that she also offered and gave her...
‘Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion’
It's hard to say which is bolder—Bruce Feiler's writing or the travels that spark it—but Feiler's courage with pen and passport will roll down on anyone holding a copy of his latest book, Where God Was Born: A Journey...
SBC Leader Says Iraq Continuation of First Gulf War
A Southern Baptist official who claimed theological justification to invade Iraq six months before the war now says he views it as a continuation of the First Gulf War. "For me, the Iraq war was a continuation of 1991,...
A Master of Moral Arbitrage
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is guilty of "insider trading" by requesting the sale of his remaining stock in the Hospital Corporation of America....
Baptists Part of Delegation to Middle East
Two Baptists were among 16 Jewish and Christian leaders returning Friday from a week-long "mission of peace" to Israel and Palestine. John Roberts, a past president of the Alliance of Baptists, was among a delegation...
‘Evangelical’ American Baptists Ponder Future
More than 350 American Baptists attended last weekend's meeting at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary to begin to chart a future course for "evangelicals" frustrated in their efforts to force American Baptist...
European Baptist Leaders Criticize IMB Strategy
Leaders of the European Baptist Federation sharply criticized Southern Baptist mission strategy in a report received unanimously at an EBF Council meeting Sept. 22-25 in Prague, Czech Republic. A resolution accepted by...