Christian Media: More Clergy than Lay People Use It

Usage of Christian media is much higher for Protestant clergy than for Protestant lay people, a new survey shows. The survey, by Phoenix-based Ellison Research, found that 78 percent of Protestant churchgoers listen to music that is specifically Christian, and...

Study Questions Private School Advantage

Students in public schools performed nearly as well as those in private schools, while eighth graders in conservative Christian schools were actually behind their public school counterparts in math, according to a new study. The U.S. Education Department report...

Southern Baptist Group Promotes Christian Schooling

An organization promoting Christian schooling among Southern Baptists has a new program to help pastors and church leaders organize a viable alternative to public schools. “Christian Schooling 101,” a workshop that moves beyond the “whys” to...

Baptist Peacemaking Group Condemns Violence in Middle East

A Baptist peacemaking group on Friday called on both sides of mounting tensions in the Middle East to back down from the brink of war and to negotiate toward a peaceful resolution. A caucus of members of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, meeting in an...

Blogger Shines Light on Baptist ‘ValleyGate’

David Montoya made a name for himself in the 1980s for secretly tape recording a private meeting to expose a fundamentalist political machine intent on influencing the election of a Baptist state convention president in Arkansas. No longer a fundamentalist and now a...

Judge Blocks Georgia Voter ID Law

The same federal judge who last year blocked enforcement of a law requiring Georgia voters to present picture IDs to go the polls on Wednesday also said a new law aimed at fixing constitutional problems in the old one cannot be used in next Tuesday’s primaries....