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SBC to Study Name Change
Southern Baptist Convention president Jack Graham announced Monday that he is appointing a committee to study changing the name of the nation's largest Protestant body. Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in...
SBC Executive Committee Votes to Withdraw From BWA
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee voted 62-10 to pull out of the Baptist World Alliance Tuesday afternoon. The leadership group approved recommendations of an SBC/BWA Study Committee revised in light...
Is CBF the Center of SBC Complaint Against BWA, Or Scapegoat?
Is the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to blame for the Southern Baptist Convention's proposal to withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance? A recommendation due to come before the SBC Executive Committee today calls on...
Kimmie Weeks Leads a Crusade for Children
Fourteen years ago, the world watched as a once prosperous and stable country of two million souls on the west coast of Africa deteriorated into anarchy, terror and war. What the world does not know is the story of a...
Gibson Discusses ‘The Passion’ on ‘Primetime’
Mel Gibson confirmed reports that he is removing the controversial "blood curse" from his movie "The Passion of the Christ" but said he wouldn't add a postscript saying that Jews are not responsible for Jesus' death in...
Evangelical Leader Hopes Web Site Will Prompt ‘Passion’ Postscript
An evangelical group has now joined the call for Mel Gibson to attach a statement regarding anti-Semitism to his upcoming film, "The Passion of the Christ." Mike Evans, a Texas minister and writer who heads up the...
SBC Vote on BWA Withdrawal Scheduled Tuesday
Anticipation is mounting as a vote on severing ties between the Southern Baptist Convention and Baptist World Alliance draws near. An SBC Executive Committee vote, scheduled Tuesday afternoon, would be a major step...
Children and Crime in American Culture
It was hardly a century ago that social activists launched a crusade to save children from the exploitation of industry. Children, some as young as 9 years old, were often forced to work 10 and 12 hour shifts in...
Floridian Marching to Protest Proposed BWA Pullout by SBC
A retired physician from Florida is staging a one-man protest of the Southern Baptist Convention's expected withdrawal from the Baptist World Alliance by fasting and marching around SBC headquarters carrying a cross...
Trust Me?
We'll turn your house into a home, the slick TV commercial for a national furniture store chain promises. The concept is simple: fill your house with furniture from this store, and your house will become a warm, happy,...
LifeWay Withdraws Quote Endorsing ‘Rickshaw Rally’ VBS Material
LifeWay Christian Resources has withdrawn promotional materials quoting a Texas Baptist leader as endorsing this summer's Asian-themed "Rickshaw Rally" Vacation Bible School curriculum--which some criticize as...
‘The Cooler’
A great many Christians proclaim to those who will listen that there is no such thing as luck; everything happens for a reason. With this kind of philosophy, Buffalo Bills fans must think that God really has it in for...
Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making Your Church a Faith-Forming Community
Robert Webber believes the road to the church's future runs through its past. In the third installment of his "Ancient-Future Faith" series, Webber, the Myers Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary and president of...
LifeWay Withdraws Quote Endorsing ‘Rickshaw Rally’ VBS Material
LifeWay Christian Resources has withdrawn promotional materials quoting a Texas Baptist leader as endorsing this summer's Asian-themed "Rickshaw Rally" Vacation Bible School curriculum--which some criticize as...
‘Will of God’ Foreign Concept to Eastern Religions
Christians, Jews, Muslims and other theists seek to discern and follow the will of God. It may surprise them to learn that there are other religious practitioners who do not believe in a personal deity. How do you find...
‘Miracle’
Langston Hughes wrote of what takes place when a dream is deferred. He used graphic terms, like rotten meat and running sores. But sometimes a dream deferred is a fire that burns in a person. "Miracle" tells the story...
Southern Baptist Doctrinal Study Evades Jesus
The Southern Baptist Convention's 2004 doctrinal study evades Jesus' teachings, skipping his Sermon on the Mount and ignoring his greatest commandment. Simply put, if Matthew, Mark and Luke receive any attention in...
Gibson Says Episcopalian Wife Might Go to Hell, Column Reports
The maelstrom surrounding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has just gotten uglier. MSNBC gossip columnist Jeannette Walls reported Tuesday that Mel Gibson said his wife might be damned to hell because she isn't...
‘Lost in Translation’
Living away from a large urban area can be hard—especially hard when you are a movie buff. Many of the art house films do not come your way. When a movie comes out you cannot get to, you wait with bated breath for its...
The Critical Difference Between Critic and Cynic
"Cynic," and its derivatives, is surely among the biggest "diss" words of this wartime era. While cynicism is real and dangerous, charges of such occur regularly in conversation and print as a means of dismissing the...
Tobacco Use Remains High 40 Years After Surgeon General’s Report
Forty years after the first U.S. Surgeon General's report linking tobacco to lung cancer, a large percentage of Americans are still smokers. When U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the watershed report in January...