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Italian Baptists Criticize War in Iraq
Leaders of the Italian Baptist Union have sent an open letter to Baptists in the United States criticizing the war in Iraq. The letter, approved by vote of Italian Baptists in October and delivered Friday to Baptist...
Personal Word About the Future
This is the first of a series of personal editorials to the readers of EthicsDaily.com. As the executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, I need you to know where I am and where I think BCE ought to go. I...
‘Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason’
Bridget Jones—poster girl for weight watching, relationship troubles and career fallout—is back in this serviceable sequel to 2001's "Bridget Jones' Diary." Since "Diary," Renee Zellweger (Jones) has picked up an Oscar...
Anti-Public School Effort Remains Controversial
Five months after it was discussed but not voted on at the Southern Baptist Convention, a grassroots effort calling on Southern Baptists to remove their kids from public schools remains controversial. The Tennessee...
Making the Big Jump
Last Jan. 28, Justin Gregorich joined other potential football players in his school's weightlifting room for a scheduled conditioning practice. He was hoping to try out for the junior varsity football team this fall....
The Birthing of an African-American Rural Church
The greatest story of "church planting" in America may never be told. We have waited too late to gather the data. I am talking about the explosion of new African-American congregations in the rural South in the decades...
Bush Pick for Attorney General Controversial Among Conservatives
President Bush's pick to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft may not sit well with religious conservatives, whose turnout at the polls is credited as playing a major role in the Bush's re-election. Wire services...
Jewish Foundation to Sponsor Graphic History of Israel
A Chicago Jewish foundation has recruited top talent in comics to tell the history of the State of Israel in the increasingly popular graphic book format. Homeland is tentatively set for release in mid-August 2005,...
‘Good News’ Dolls Hit Market
A series of character-building dolls inspired by a Muppet-like TV show will soon hit the market. Good News Toys, a series of 16 hand-crafted dolls, are a creation of the Chrisagis Brothers, whose TV show and tour...
A Legacy
Henlee Barnette's death at 93 silences one of the last great voices of a generation of Baptist ethicists in the South. They made Christian ethics a discipline both for Baptist seminarians and educators and for the...
White House Dodges Question About ‘God Bless’ Arafat Comment
A White House spokesman on Monday refused to say whether President Bush's premature comment last week about Yasser Arafat's death implied the president believes the Palestinian leader is going to heaven. Erroneously...
‘The Incredibles’
If you love James Bond and Jonny Quest, you will love "The Incredibles." Brad Bird, who worked on "The Simpsons" and made one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, "The Iron Giant," creates a universe where...
Dobson Turns Focus to Judiciary
People of faith who helped re-elect President Bush now expect him to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who will oppose abortion, religious leader James Dobson said Sunday. Interviewed by George Stephanopoulos...
A Post-Election Prayer
Oh Lord, my Lord, how majestic is your name in all of the earth. For it is you and you alone, my God, to whom all power and honor and glory belongs. In obedience to your Holy Word, I lift up this prayer as a sweet...
Evangelical-Catholic Coalition Recalled in Wake of Bush Win
Did President George W. Bush's re-election have roots in a statement signed by 40 conservative Protestant and Catholic leaders 10 years ago? UPI guest columnist Martin Sax observed that goals of a groundbreaking...
The Voice of the Prophet
I awoke Wednesday morning to hear my radio announcing the morning news. I thought to myself, "What have my people done?" As I drove to my church, I heard the voice of the prophet. But the question is: Should I listen?...
God is not a Republican … or a Democrat
As a born-again evangelical who believes the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, I am troubled by the assertions I have heard throughout this campaign season that God is a Republican, or that one cannot be a...
Bush Second Term Draws Mixed Reviews Overseas
President Bush's "mandate"--signaled by clear re-election wins in both the popular vote and electoral college—drew mixed reviews from overseas, especially among countries that opposed the war in Iraq and removal of...
Brick by Brick
The music has stopped for too many public school children, particularly those on the lower end of the economic scale. And that's just not acceptable for people like David Wish. As an elementary school teacher in 1996,...
‘Alfie’
"Alfie" is what Paramount calls a "stylish reinvention" of the 1966 original starring Michael Caine. It isn't clear that "Alfie" needed updating. Jude Law as Alfie is fine, but the story itself—womanizer can't stop...
Mending the Breach
Voter turnout this past Tuesday reached record numbers. Clearly Americans have demonstrated a vigorous interest in the outcome of this presidential election. They may have been motivated by different issues, but voters...