by Brian Kaylor | Jan 5, 2012 | News
With the help of conservative evangelicals, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum surged to a virtual first-place tie in Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa. Ending with a quarter of the vote and a mere eight votes behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jan 5, 2012 | News
How do you communicate something of the relevance and accessibility of the gospel to people in today’s society? An imaginative church in southwest England has chosen the artistic route as it refurbished its city center building. Believing the visual to be...
by Kimberly Winston | Jan 4, 2012 | News
(RNS) How viable is a political party with the word “atheist” in its name? Troy Boyle, a corporate legal representative for a finance company, thinks very viable. Last March, he and a friend founded the National Atheist Party, which they believe to be the first...
by Bruce Nolan | Jan 4, 2012 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A Catholic high school that was the country’s last refuge of corporal punishment has ended a legal struggle over control of the school and agreed that the days of paddling are over. “There will be no attempt to reinstate corporal punishment,” said...
by David Gibson | Jan 4, 2012 | News
(RNS) American Episcopalians upset with their denomination’s acceptance of gay and female clergy can now convert to the Roman Catholic Church while keeping many cherished traditions in a special new U.S. diocese that was established on Sunday (Jan. 1) by Pope Benedict...
by Brian Kaylor | Jan 4, 2012 | News
As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich jumped to the front of the Republican presidential polls last month, he found several Southern Baptist leaders ready to support him despite his affairs and divorces. The treatment of Gingrich, who left his Southern Baptist...
