by Brian Kaylor | Jun 10, 2010 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention’s leader on public policy issues claimed that environmentalists and President Obama are mostly to blame for oil devastation in the Gulf of Mexico. Richard Land, head of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,...
by David McCollum | May 19, 2010 | News
A new hope, inspired by an energetic new generation of leaders, is springing from Helena, Ark., a once-vibrant river town now in the middle of one of the poorest economic regions in the country. Success stories in Helena were celebrated at two recent events: the Delta...
by Baptist Times Staff | May 19, 2010 | News
An international development charity has turned its focus on soccer clubs to highlight the tax-haven secrecy that is costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in poor countries. Twenty-five clubs are now based offshore, including 15 in the English Premier...
by Brian Kaylor | May 14, 2010 | News
A former president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. has lost his lawsuit against the convention, months after overwhelmingly losing his attempt to regain the presidency. The lawsuit was dismissed by a Superior Court of the District of Columbia judge on...
by Brian Kaylor | May 3, 2010 | News
The interim president of Criswell College recently used the ethnic slur “wetbacks” prior to teaching Sunday school at First Baptist Church of Dallas. Lamar Cooper’s statement on April 25 was picked up live on a local Christian radio station...
by David McCollum | Apr 28, 2010 | News
Leena Lavanya awakens at her home in India about 4 a.m. each day after a four-hour sleep. She prays for two hours, then makes her rounds from 7 to midnight. Rounds include a leper colony, a hospice home for HIV patients, a home for the elderly, an orphanage, a prison,...
