by Bob Allen | Jun 21, 2007 | News
A Southern Baptist theologian said future growth of the Southern Baptist Convention must come not only from the baptistery, but also the bedroom. Citing a study that for the first time compares birth rates of religious denominations, Southern Baptist Theological...
by Bob Allen | Jun 21, 2007 | News
Despite a year of political instability and strife, Baptists in Lebanon are proceeding this week with an annual conference aimed at bringing Christians from North America, Europe and the Arab world together to better understand Islam and the Middle East. Sponsored by...
by Bob Allen | Jun 21, 2007 | News
Vision America founder Rick Scarborough and two-time presidential candidate Alan Keyes are kicking off a 70-week series of one-day crusades to “save America” beginning the week of the Fourth of July and ending the week of national elections in 2008....
by Bob Allen | Jun 20, 2007 | News
A Christian Web site criticized a Southern Baptist mega-church’s enshrining of cheerleading and beauty-pageant memorabilia to honor the senior pastor’s wife as an example of modern-day idolatry. “How do you build a ‘Cult of Personality’...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 20, 2007 | News
“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor,” writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson has observed. “You can’t think without metaphors.” One example of a toxic metaphor came during a recent address by former...
by Bob Allen | Jun 19, 2007 | News
PBS officials defended the decision to air a documentary on Thomas Jefferson’s metaphor of a “wall” of separation between church and state against accusations the film is a propaganda tool for the Christian Right. In a June 8 blog cross-posted at...
