by Bob Allen | Sep 22, 2005 | News
Electing leaders with poor records of Cooperative Program support has had a negative impact on the Southern Baptist Convention’s fiscal health, according to a task force report released Saturday. An eight-member group of SBC and state convention leaders found...
by Bob Allen | Sep 21, 2005 | News
Southern Baptist Convention leaders are recommending the denomination’s two mission boards jointly study the possibility of establishing a formal mission to Jews. “Inasmuch as we are grabbing the challenge of Acts 1:8–to go to Jerusalem, Judea,...
by Bob Allen | Sep 20, 2005 | News
Leaders meeting Friday and Saturday in Atlanta denied that American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. condones homosexuality, but said the denomination lacks authority to dictate theology to local churches. “We grieve and are profoundly saddened by the decision of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 19, 2005 | News
More important than the question “What do you believe?” are the questions “Who are you?” and “What do you do as a Christian?” That concept forms the foundation of The Practice of Living Faithfully, an undated Bible study curriculum...
by Bob Allen | Sep 19, 2005 | News
Great Britain’s Baptist newspaper is credited with winning a late-hour reprieve for a family of six threatened with deportation to Rwanda, where friends say the husband and father faced certain prison or death. Jean-Paul Habamenshi, 40, is a Christian Hutu who...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 17, 2005 | News
EthicsDaily.com has carried several news and commentary items related to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Here are links, which may be useful to preachers and Sunday school teachers preparing for church services this Sunday. News: Christian Leaders Speak of God’s...
