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Carter Decries Discrimination Against Women in Church
This story updates and replaces an earlier report posted Sunday as part of developing coverage of the 2005 Baptist World Congress in Birmingham, England. "Despite the fact that Jesus Christ was the greatest liberator...
Jesus at the OK Corral
Pat Robertson, founder and host of the "700 Club," demonstrated this past week just how far right wing Christianity has drifted from the teachings of Jesus. During a recent telecast, Robertson said that he believes the...
Joel Gregory Joins Faculty at Truett
Joel Gregory, a two-time Baylor graduate best known among Baptists as successor to legendary pastor W.A. Criswell at First Baptist Church in Dallas, is returning to the campus in Waco, Texas, as professor of preaching...
It’s Time to Admit Error, and Find a New Path in Iraq
Bush led the world to war on the wings of a falsehood. He and his administration asserted mistakenly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was close to having nuclear weapons. Their specious claims resulted in...
BWA Focus Group Calls for Focus on Addressing AIDS
This story updates and replaces an earlier report posted Thursday night as part of developing coverage of the 2005 Baptist World Congress this week in Birmingham, England. Noting there are 39.4 million HIV-positive...
Will Belmont’s Fisher Speak Up for Alcohol-Free Sports TV?
As a member of the executive committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Robert Fisher, president of Belmont University, has a unique opportunity and responsibility to speak up for alcohol-free sports TV...
Survey says Muslims Nearly as Popular as Evangelicals
Evangelical Christians are less popular in America than Catholics or Jews, and are viewed with only slightly more favor than Muslims, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by the Pew Research Center For The...
‘Mr. Moms’ Actually At-Home Dads
The notion of a father staying home to care for children burst onto the national consciousness in 1983 when Michael Keaton played an at-home dad in the movie "Mr. Mom." Its tagline read, "When mom goes to work, dad...
Churches Made Up Lost SBC Funding, BWA Head Reports
Baptists in North America more than made up for funding lost when the Southern Baptist Convention left the Baptist World Alliance last year, BWA General Secretary Denton Lotz told the group's General Council Wednesday....
Baptist World Centenary Congress Opens
This story updates and replaces the earlier report posted Thursday morning as part of developing coverage of the 2005 Baptist World Congress this week in Birmingham, England. "Every person needs the Living Water from...
Rethinking Missions in the 21st Century
Prior to a February trip to the tsunami-affected nations of Sri Lanka and India, Paul Montacute, director of Baptist World Aid, explained to me that the Baptist World Alliance has a threefold strategy for meeting human...
Title for Spielberg’s Film Hopes to Quell Controversy
Steven Spielberg's most controversial film to date has a name after all: "Munich." The film, about Israel's counter-terrorism initiative after 11 of its athletes were killed in an attack at the 1972 Munich Olympic...
Former Communist World No Longer ‘Unreached,’ Professor Says
Old-fashioned Western missionary organizations still classify the former communist world as "unreached," a designation which is no longer true, according to Romanian Baptist scholar Otniel Bunaciu. Christian...
BWA Speakers Create Conundrum for SBC
Brave Baptists meet this week in Birmingham, England, for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Baptist World Alliance, despite two terrorist attacks on London in recent weeks. These folk are certain to learn...
BWA Speaker Says War in Iraq is Just
A featured Bible study leader at this week's Baptist World Centenary Congress is on record as saying the war in Iraq is justified and that he agreed with President Bush that Saddam Hussein posed a destructive threat to...
What You Tell Me, Stays With Me
An unnamed source told me of an experience on a golf course. This came to my attention when my trustworthy confidential source returned from San Antonio with the tale. My unnamed informant's report went something like...
Trying To Find A Place For Jesus In The Church
Theological competition between Christian groups has been part of the faith landscape from the beginning. From Gentiles to apostolic authority, from Latin to Greek Bibles, Christians have always been able to find stuff...
Shaking Off the Dust
"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, and has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor, proclaim freedom to the captives, provide sight to those who cannot see, bring liberation to the oppressed, and proclaim the...
Pastor Labels Most Southern Baptists ‘Unregenerate’
Southern Baptists are sometimes accused of believing they are the only people going to heaven, but if one author and pastor is correct, most of them are in trouble as well. A "point of view" column in the Florida...
Baptist Leader Speaks Out on Second London Attack
A British Baptist leader expressed "continuing sympathy" for victims of London's July 7 bombings after similar blasts this Thursday produced panic but no new fatalities. "We express our continuing sympathy to those who...
‘The Island’
"Everyone wants to live forever. It's the new American dream." So says a character in "The Island," the latest pyro-fest from Michael Bay, director of "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor." But this film, which opens...