by Robert Parham | Apr 1, 2009 | Opinion
Why are American Christian fundamentalists waging a war on science? They wage war against the science of climate change. They battle stem cell research. They fight the teaching of the theory of evolution in public school science classes, treating Intelligent Design as...
by Linda Brinson | Mar 18, 2009 | News
One of the oldest Protestant mission organizations has become one of the most forward-looking religious groups when it comes to fighting climate change. BMS World Mission in Great Britain, the world’s oldest Baptist missionary-sending organization, is taking direct...
by Bob Allen | Mar 17, 2009 | News
Many Christians say grace at mealtime, but that shouldn’t be the extent of the relationship between their faith and their food. So says Debra Kolodny, executive director of ALEPH, a Jewish Renewal group that recently launched an interfaith Sacred Foods Project...
by Baptist Times Staff | Mar 11, 2009 | News
The European Union’s plans for tackling climate change are inadequate, and the UK Government should take a lead in revising them, according to Church leaders in this country. Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Church leaders have written to the prime...
by Linda Brinson | Mar 6, 2009 | News
There is coal, and then there is mountaintop-removal coal. Many environmentalists and political leaders concede that it will take years to wean the nation away from its heavy dependence on coal-fired power plants as a major source of electricity. In the meantime, they...