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Meeting God in Virtual Reality: Using Spiritual Practices With Media
Some books do more than simply convey information; they help readers see the world with a fresh set of eyes. Meeting God in Virtual Reality: Using Spiritual Practices With Media, by Teresa Blythe and Daniel Wolpert, is...
Meeting God in Virtual Reality: Using Spiritual Practices With Media
Some books do more than simply convey information; they help readers see the world with a fresh set of eyes. Meeting God in Virtual Reality: Using Spiritual Practices With Media, by Teresa Blythe and Daniel Wolpert, is...
Teaching Outside the Ivory Tower
Teaching Christianity is useless if it is restricted solely to the classroom. A relationship needs to develop between the disenfranchised and intellectuals aware of the structural crises people of color face. The...
Unto the Third and Fourth Generation
The founding vision of a corporation is not easy to sustain, especially unto the third and fourth generation. Take, for example, the Norstan Corporation. Thirty-two years ago, Paul Baszucki and Sid Cohen gathered...
‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’
Tony Campolo once said that parents' greatest desire is that their children be happy. Our culture is obsessed with wanting to be happy, and much of our unhappiness could be attributed to our bad experiences in...
Bread for the World Asking Congress to Keep Its Promise on Hunger
"Many promises have been made to hungry and poor people around the world," said Shawnda Eibl, religious press secretary for Bread for the World. One of those promises is the Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000 by...
An Ethics of Continuity
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun." So the author of Ecclesiastes speaks his weariness and disillusionment. Call me crazy, but I find it...
’21 Grams’
In I Corinthians 13, Paul makes this statement: "We don't see things clearly. We are squinting in a fog, peering through a mist." It seems that no matter how sure we are, there are times in which the vision of God...
Devolution and Sanitized Secularism
A recent note on the business page of our daily newspaper sent my mind racing back across more than 50 years to Vacation Bible School. Among the character stories I heard was one about James L. Kraft. It went something...
Restoring Others Gently
Restoration is a ministry initiative that is often neglected. Due to brokenness, miscommunication, and disconnection, restoration needs to occur in many dimensions of human relationships: Between spouses, between...
A Tale of Three Ordained Women
The ordination of women as ministers--deacons, pastors and others--is controversial in Baptist life. A few Baptists are open, many (especially in the South) are adamantly opposed and some affirm women as ministers for...
Relief Effort Honors Fallen Missionaries
North Carolina Baptist Men and Woman's Missionary Union are mobilizing churches in the state to donate health supplies to Iraqi families in memory of a missionary couple killed March 15 in Iraq. Baptist leaders are...
Taking God’s Name In Vain
After a tortuous legal journey, the United States Supreme Court has finally heard Elk Grove Unified School District versus Newdow--better known as the "under God" case. A decision is expected later this spring. The...
A Tale of Three Ordained Women
The ordination of women as ministers--deacons, pastors and others--is controversial in Baptist life. A few Baptists are open, many (especially in the South) are adamantly opposed and some affirm women as ministers for...
Doing the Right Thing
Take a walk down the hallways at MCI's corporate headquarters and you're apt to be greeted with posters that challenge: "Do the right thing, because it's the right thing to do." Employee badges also carry the "do the...
BCE Sponsoring Luncheon to Foster Baptist-Jewish Relations
Some observers predicted controversy over Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" would set back dialogue between Christians and Jews two decades. For Southern Baptists, however, that wouldn't be much of a setback....
Deaths in Iraq Give Focus to ‘Clandestine’ Missions Approach
The deaths of four Southern Baptist "humanitarian aid workers" March 15 point not only to the danger facing American civilians in Iraq, but also renew questions about methods used by Christian mission groups to...
Metron Press
Christians have increasingly turned to products from popular culture, like books and films, to convey biblical messages. And now a niche product has also gotten some attention from the Christian crowd: comic books....
Harvesting the Tom Turkeys
Redbuds are in bloom. Dogwoods will be in bloom in a few days. Irises, daffodils, and many other flowers adorn yards. Peach trees are blooming. Hummingbird and Martin scouts have arrived. Bluebirds are setting up...
Mission Agencies Differ on Deploying Missionaries in War Zone
Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board officials indicated they have no immediate plans to change their strategy of providing "humanitarian aid" in Iraq despite the shooting deaths of four missions...
‘Hangman’s Curse’
Sex and gore are about as basic to teen thrillers as guns and horses are to westerns. But Twentieth Century Fox is gambling with "Hangman's Curse" that the thriller genre can be redefined with a family-friendly...