Bush Sides with Religious Right on Intelligent Design

by | Aug 3, 2005 | News

President Bush on Monday said schools should teach both evolution and “intelligent design,” siding with conservative Christians involved in controversies over science textbooks in school districts across the nation. Responding to a question in a...

Frist Breaks With Religious Right Over Stem Cell Research

by | Aug 1, 2005 | News

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist risked alienating the religious right, a constituency many say he needs to carry to be elected president in 2008, by announcing on the Senate floor on Friday that he supports federal funding for medical research using frozen human...

Carter Decries Discrimination Against Women in Church

by | Aug 1, 2005 | News

This story updates and replaces an earlier report posted Sunday as part of developing coverage of the 2005 Baptist World Congress in Birmingham, England. “Despite the fact that Jesus Christ was the greatest liberator of women, some male leaders of the Christian...

Joel Gregory Joins Faculty at Truett

by | Jul 29, 2005 | News

Joel Gregory, a two-time Baylor graduate best known among Baptists as successor to legendary pastor W.A. Criswell at First Baptist Church in Dallas, is returning to the campus in Waco, Texas, as professor of preaching at the university’s George W. Truett...

Survey says Muslims Nearly as Popular as Evangelicals

by | Jul 28, 2005 | News

Evangelical Christians are less popular in America than Catholics or Jews, and are viewed with only slightly more favor than Muslims, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by the Pew Research Center For The People & The Press and the Pew Forum on...