by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 21, 2002 | News
“Heaven and hell for Amish people are as real as New York and Chicago,” said Lucy Walker, the director of a new documentary that airs tomorrow morning on Cinemax. “Devil’s Playground” chronicles rumspringa for Amish teenagers—a period...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 21, 2002 | News
The White House finally moved to distance itself from anti-Islamic statements made at the Southern Baptist Convention meeting last week in St. Louis. Speaking to pastors at the conference, Jerry Vines, former SBC president, condemned American pluralism and charged...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 21, 2002 | News
During a press briefing yesterday afternoon, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush “definitely disagrees with” Jerry Vines’ anti-Islamic statement. Speaking to the pastors’ conference, Vines, a former SBC president, condemned...
by Jodi Mathews | Jun 18, 2002 | News
As news spreads throughout the Islamic world via IslamOnline.net, MuslimNews.co.uk and Islam.org about the Rev. Jerry Vines’ anti-Islamic remarks at last week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, many fear his words may make an already...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 17, 2002 | News
Vacation season is here and Americans’ vacation plans for this year are consistent with the past several years, according to a recent Gallup poll. More than half of adult Americans (55 percent) plan on vacationing this summer and the average number of vacation...
by Jodi Mathews | Jun 13, 2002 | News
President Bush’s recent praise of Southern Baptists as champions of religious tolerance seemed tarnished in light of anti-Islamic comments made by the Rev. Jerry Vines of Florida during his June 10 address to pastors. Vines told the audience, “Islam was...
