by Brian Kaylor | Mar 4, 2009 | News
Chuck Colson, the former Watergate felon who is now a Baptist author and speaker, recently misrepresented evidence about global warming and even suggested that global cooling was occurring. Colson’s BreakPoint commentary on the topic last month was picked up by...
by Baptist Times Staff | Mar 3, 2009 | News
Listening to the voices of the marginalised, opposing discrimination of women and noting the impact of climate change were among the commitments made by Baptists around the world in Rome as part of the ‘urgent Gospel task of being justice seekers and...
by Linda Brinson | Mar 1, 2009 | News
The worse the recession gets, the more desperate many people and families become. And the more desperation people feel about their finances, the more urgent it is for legislators to find a way to crack down on the perennial problem of predatory lending. Predatory...
by Carla Wynn Davis | Mar 1, 2009 | News
ATLANTA — When many wouldn’t, Angel and Jason Pittman believe—in their neighbors, in the community, and in what God can do. After years of living that message in Overtown, the poorest neighborhood in Miami, the local community is starting to believe, too. The...
by David McCollum | Feb 27, 2009 | News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—New fruit is budding from a previous dying-on-the-vine event, which originated from some tiny seeds planted here in 1971. That year, two Baptist congregations—one white, one African-American—began worshiping together once a year. In the 1980s, the...
by Brian Kaylor | Feb 23, 2009 | News
The forthcoming book by a former trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board exposes several ethical shortcomings in the management approach of IMB trustee leaders. Wade Burleson’s book, Hardball Religion: Feeling the Fury of...
