Kentucky Debates Religious Dates in Classroom

Critics of plans by Kentucky’s school board to add secular references B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Area) to historical dating in social studies textbooks appealed at a public hearing for reversal of the decision and continuing to use only B.C....

Baptist Doctors Treat Earthquake Victims

Hungarian doctors and paramedics from Baptist World Aid operated on and treated patients one day after Saturday’s 6.7 Richter scale earthquake in Indonesia. Indonesia’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami, Saturday’s quake near Yogyakarta on the...

Committee Member Supports ‘Exit Strategy’ Resolution

A member of the Southern Baptist Convention resolutions committee says he believes the convention ought to consider a resolution calling for an exit strategy from public schools. According to Agape Press, Darrell Orman, pastor of First Baptist Church in Stuart, Fla.,...

Baptists Respond to Indonesian Quake

Baptist World Aid sent an initial $20,000 grant for immediate relief of people suffering from Saturday’s earthquake in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as aid started to trickle into the island of Java, where more than 5,000 were killed and tens of thousands are left...

Bush Says He Regrets Tough Talk on Iraq

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, President Bush on Thursday said he regrets using tough talk in the early stages of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Appearing before reporters with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush was asked which mistakes and missteps in the war...