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Study Says Teens Who Take Virginity Pledges at Risk of STDs
Teenagers who take pledges to abstain from sexual intercourse are more likely to engage in other sexual activity that carries a higher risk of sexually transmitted disease, according to a new study. While teens who...
Poker on TV Continues Popularity
"Texas Hold 'em" is now as trendy as Britney Spears due to the popularity and proliferation of poker on television. In yet another sure sign of Americans' increasing devotion to leisure activities, watching poker on...
Rejected Church Ad Turns to Blogs
Spurned twice by the major TV networks, the United Church of Christ has taken its famous "bouncer ad" to nearly 50 of the most widely read Weblogs. Leaders of the 1.3-million-member denomination said an estimated 1...
Company Hired by Southern Seminary Supports Diversity
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has outsourced maintenance of its Louisville, Ky., campus to a company recognized for efforts to increase diversity, including providing domestic partner benefits and celebrating...
Jesus Might Star in NBC Series
CBS has God in its primetime lineup, and NBC might get Jesus. The peacock network is developing a drama called "The Book of Daniel"—featuring a modern-day Jesus who helps a troubled minister—as a potential addition to...
Baptist Governor Won’t Veto Gambling Bill
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister and past president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, says he won't veto a bill allowing voters in two communities to decide whether to expand electronic...
Is Biblical Counseling Biblical?
It should come as no surprise that Southern Seminary has announced that the pastoral care and counseling curriculum formed under the direction of Wayne Oates should now be replaced by model known as "biblical"...
Conference on Faith and Politics Postponed
Due to the prolonged illness of Baptist Center for Ethics Executive Director Robert Parham, a scheduled conference on faith and politics has been postponed indefinitely. Parham was diagnosed late last week with acute...
Get a Free DVD of ‘The Dust Factory’
"The Dust Factory" arrives on DVD Mar. 22, and EthicsDaily.com readers can get a free copy of the DVD. "The Dust Factory" is a coming-of-age story starring Ryan Kelley, Hayden Panettiere and Armin Mueller-Stahl. When...
Hostage’s Mention of ‘Purpose Driven Life’ Boosts Sales
Sales of Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life catapulted after the book was credited with helping lead to the surrender of the suspect in an Atlanta shooting rampage. On Sunday evening, the day former hostage Ashley...
BCE Executive Director Diagnosed With Leukemia
Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, was diagnosed last week with acute leukemia. He is undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Gary Burton, vice chairman of BCE's...
Baptist Peace Activist Carman Sharp Dies
Longtime Baptist peace activist Carman Sharp died Monday at a nursing home in Louisville, Ky. He was 87. As pastor of Louisville's Deer Park Baptist Church from 1961 to 1984, Sharp was active in social causes in the...
Seminary Adopts ‘Biblical’ Counseling
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is changing the way it will train ministers to deal with the needs of hurting parishioners. After decades of integrating secular psychology and biblical training in a course of...
God Loves Gays as People
To my gay bothers and sisters, may the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. I've received numerous communiques demanding an apology for a previous column I penned. And I agree. But if any apology is due, it should be...
Church Where Shooting Occurred Fosters Paranoia, Professor Says
A man who went on a rampage last Saturday, killing seven members of a suburban Milwaukee congregation meeting in a hotel before committing suicide, belonged to an unusual, cult-like denomination that fosters a sense of...
The Good Life: Genuine Christianity for the Middle Class
Charles Talbert often noted to his students that when a scholar looks for a picture of Jesus he often comes back with a portrait that looks much like himself. The same could be said for modern depictions of the...
Georgia Church Votes Formally to Align with Virginia Baptists
First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., voted Sunday to join the Baptist General Association of Virginia and leave the Georgia Baptist Convention. The 321-16 vote followed a study by the church's denominational relations...
Southern Baptist Leader Criticized for Comment About Pope
A Southern Baptist opponent of ecumenical dialogue has criticized a denominational leader for contradictory statements against joining one ecumenical group while telling a national magazine that he has more in common...
Spirituality Site Launches ‘Narnia’ Coverage
A popular Web site dedicated to spirituality and popular culture is following its extensive coverage of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy with in-depth treatment of C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia." The Hollywood...
Evangelicals, Catholics Release Statement on Holiness
A group of Catholic and evangelical scholars that has been in dialogue for more than a decade has issued a new statement condemning spiritual sloth. The statement, published in the Catholic journal First Things and the...
Sheep in a World of Wolves
The faith tradition I love and have given the last 25 years of my life to serve is under assault. Wolves in sheep's clothing have slipped into the fold and are systematically shearing the faithful to the bone. Not just...