by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 5, 2004 | News
Researchers say the average American spends about seven hours a day in front of some sort of screen: television, movie, computer. Acknowledging this reality, Abingdon Press is releasing a new book aimed at helping people use media to enhance their spiritual life....
by Bob Allen | Apr 5, 2004 | News
Moderate Baptist publisher Cecil Staton, who two years ago ran unsuccessfully for Congress on a platform reaching out to the religious right, is re-entering politics, thanks to a court-ordered redistricting that puts his Georgia state Senate district up for grabs....
by Bob Allen | Apr 2, 2004 | News
Sending Christian missionaries into Iraq along with U.S. troops “was exactly the wrong thing to do,” an expert on the Middle East and Christian/Jewish/Muslim relations said this week at a conference sponsored by the Baptist Center for Ethics. Charles...
by Chasity Ann Gunn | Mar 31, 2004 | News
“Many promises have been made to hungry and poor people around the world,” said Shawnda Eibl, religious press secretary for Bread for the World. One of those promises is the Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000 by 189 nations including the United...
by Bob Allen | Mar 29, 2004 | News
North Carolina Baptist Men and Woman’s Missionary Union are mobilizing churches in the state to donate health supplies to Iraqi families in memory of a missionary couple killed March 15 in Iraq. Baptist leaders are hoping to provide 16,000 kits containing...
by Bob Allen | Mar 26, 2004 | News
Some observers predicted controversy over Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” would set back dialogue between Christians and Jews two decades. For Southern Baptists, however, that wouldn’t be much of a setback. Many have observed that...
