by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 28, 2004 | News
Baptist relief agencies were among organizations scrambling to provide relief to victims of Sunday’s tsunami that killed thousands and destroyed coastlines in South and Southeast Asia. Baptist World Aid and Hungarian Baptist Aid sent a medical and relief team to...
by Bob Allen | Dec 28, 2004 | News
A Baptist minister and father of Canada’s socialized medicine was named “the Greatest Canadian” in a contest run by Canadian public television. Tommy Douglas, who died in 1986, served five terms as premier of Saskatchewan, forming North...
by Bob Allen | Dec 28, 2004 | News
The Missouri Baptist Convention will reportedly be asked to amend a $2.75 million contract of sale for its office building to ensure that county taxpayers will not have to pay for any removal of asbestos or to get out of a 20-year lease with a convention agency that...
by Bob Allen | Dec 21, 2004 | News
This year will go down as the fourth-hottest year on record, and the last 10 years are among the warmest since record-keeping began in 1861, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization reported last week. The global mean surface temperature dropped...
by Bob Allen | Dec 20, 2004 | News
A lawsuit alleging religious discrimination deep in the Bible Belt proves Southern Baptist leaders were wrong to oppose a resolution this summer calling for an exodus from public schools, says the statement’s co-author. Lawyers in Plano, Texas, filed a...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 17, 2004 | News
This year, no “Lord of the Rings” installment awaits moviegoers at the cinema. Next year, however, another literary behemoth will explode onto screens worldwide. “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” the first in C.S. Lewis’ beloved...