by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 30, 2004 | News
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” hits theaters in less than a month. It will open Feb. 25—Ash Wednesday—on 2,000 screens, finally giving audiences a look at one of the most controversial films in recent memory. Gibson’s interpretation...
by Bob Allen | Jan 30, 2004 | News
Southern Baptist leaders don’t need to look for heresy in the Baptist World Alliance. It’s right under their noses in the form of fundamentalism, suggests a former seminary professor and longtime BWA leader, now a pastor in Australia. Thorwald Lorenzen,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 29, 2004 | News
Clergy are coming to the aid of striking grocery workers in Southern California, preaching that affordable health insurance is a moral issue. Religious groups have joined 70,000 striking grocers with “walking prayer” to picket lines in the Los Angeles...
by Bob Allen | Jan 28, 2004 | News
The “conservative resurgence” continues to gain ground in Baptist state conventions, according to a fundamentalist editor analyzing developments in 41 state and regional bodies affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. “With the passing of...
by Bob Allen | Jan 27, 2004 | News
Moderates in North Carolina didn’t take a formal vote on starting a new organization but began what is likely to be a continuing conversation about finding ways to cooperate apart from the conservative-led Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. About 500...
by Bob Allen | Jan 23, 2004 | News
The Baptist World Alliance was formed in a “steamship age” and has outlived its purpose, says seminary president Albert Mohler. “Now we’re in an age of instant communications, Internet, air travel,” Mohler told the Louisville...
