by Linda Brinson | Feb 20, 2009 | News
The symbolism was obvious: President Obama went to the rooftop ”the roof of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado, with its solar panels for heat ”before he signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package into law Tuesday. And even as analysts,...
by Baptist Union of Australia Staff | Feb 19, 2009 | News
The National Director of the Baptist Union of Australia, the Rev. Brian Winslade, has denounced the latest hate speech from Westboro Baptist Church, which yesterday claimed that God hated Australians and was directly responsible for the tragic Victorian bushfires....
by Carla Wynn Davis | Feb 18, 2009 | News
ATLANTA — Last summer Matt and Melanie Storie moved to rural Perry County, Ala. Statistics say it’s one of the nation’s poorest counties, but these Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel believe it is a place where hope and the presence of Christ are...
by Brian Kaylor | Feb 17, 2009 | News
A motion made at last year’s Southern Baptist Convention to remove Ft. Worth’s Broadway Baptist Church from membership in the SBC over the issue of homosexuality was discussed today by the denomination’s executive committee, which delayed action...
by Baptist Times Staff | Feb 15, 2009 | News
Employment is a moral issue which involves issues of justice and fairness, according to a Baptist pastor and chaplain to the Christian Socialist Movement. The Rev. Ian Tutton, pastor of Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, was speaking to The Baptist Times about the...
by David McCollum | Feb 12, 2009 | News
Showings of Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism in two tiny south Arkansas towns hit home. Chester Thompson, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Camden, Ark., and moderator-elect of CBF of Arkansas, helped host presentations of the DVD on racial attitudes,...
