by BWA Staff | Mar 19, 2004 | Opinion
(BWA) Bekim Beka, pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church in Prishtina, Kosovo, has asked Baptists around the world to pray for the ethnic fighting that has erupted there with 22 people killed and more than 500 injured.Started with help from Baptist World Aid, the...
by Jim Wallis | Mar 19, 2004 | Opinion
Nearly 600 American soldiers have died in Iraq–six more just last weekend. More than 3,000 have been wounded or maimed. Reliable accounts say more than 10,000 Iraqi civilians have lost their lives. No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. U.S....
by Dwight A. Moody | Mar 18, 2004 | Opinion
The religious history of America is best understood if we talk about four traditions that have characterized the life of believers: Spiritual, Evangelical, Sacramental and Plural. For 500, these have shaped our nation, but each in its own time and in its own way. They...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 16, 2004 | Opinion
I recently watched Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion,” a powerful interpretation of the last hours of Jesus’ human life, which I’m sure will resonate with the dominant culture. Yet for some, the movie has become inerrant. It is true that the...
by Michael Helms | Mar 16, 2004 | Opinion
According to Genesis, a marriage is the coming together of a man and a woman in a “one flesh” relationship. “A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh” (Gen 2:24). This one-flesh...
by Jim Ball | Mar 15, 2004 | Opinion
I still haven’t forgotten a casual remark made by a Baptist pastor friend of mine about 10 years ago. He wanted to communicate to me how “environmental” issues can get out of hand, how “enviros” can go overboard. The example he used was...
