by Baptist Times Staff | Mar 27, 2014 | News
Churches are calling for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense to clarify its deployment of drones in Afghanistan after a defense committee report confirmed the likelihood that U.K. drones were being used by U.S. drone operators. Leaders of the Methodist...
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 19, 2014 | News
More than 600 Christians from around the world gathered last week in the Bethlehem to consider how to live out biblical teachings in today’s Israeli-Palestinian context. On the eve of the conference’s start, Israel Today published an attack on the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 18, 2014 | News
A new study has raised concerns about the connection between e-cigarette use and conventional smoking, particularly among adolescents. “The Journal of the American Medical Association: Pediatrics” (JAMA) released on March 6 a report from researchers at...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 17, 2014 | News
A new documentary on prisons and faith – “Through the Door” – will be shown at First Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C., on March 28 during the annual meeting of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC). Cliff Vaughn,...
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 14, 2014 | News
Pope Francis has repeatedly talked about the need for Christian unity, but Baptists have offered divergent responses. Elected a year ago, Pope Francis often frames his message of Christian unity with the biblical metaphor of the Body of Christ and as a practical need...
by Chris Hall | Mar 11, 2014 | News
We often start things without knowing how they are going to end. But God knows. In 1812, a Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) missionary arrived in Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon then) and planted a church the next year. Little did they know then that, 200 years on, it...
