Obama And Two Types of Marriage
Posted Friday, May 18, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
In the wake of President Obama's declaration of his personal support for the right of same-sex couples to marry under civil law, the nation is understandably focused on debating the merits of this position. Three related poin…
FIRST PERSON: A Debt-free Degree
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
Outstanding college loan debt is nearly $1 trillion, as students increasingly borrow to pay education costs. Chuck Bentley of Crown Financial Ministries explains how to get a marketable, debt-free college education.
ANALYSIS: Feds’ ‘blind Eye’ to Obscenity
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
As the Supreme Court has ruled, obscene pornographic material is not protected by the First Amendment. Yet at the behest of the current administration, federal prosecutors — whose job it is to help quarantine the infectious and illegal porn pandemic f…
Chen Expects Passport ‘within 15 Days’
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
Chen Guangcheng, who remains under virtual house arrest in a Beijing hospital, told reporters he expects to receive passports for his family in less than two weeks so that they may travel to the United States.
In Europe, 2 Churches Begin Efforts for Unreached Peoples
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
Two churches — one with 80 members, the other with 1,100 — begin their work through Southern Baptists’ Embrace initiative to reach one of the world’s 3,800 unreached, unengaged people groups, 500 of which can be found in Europe, and establish an acti…
Ezell Announces Full-time Northeast Missionaries, Hails Bivocational Pastors
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell has announced new missionary placements for five several states in the Northeast — Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, South New Jersey and Vermont — that have not had a full-time missionary fully fund…
2012 Task Force Report Now Online
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
The final report of a blue-ribbon task force appointed two years ago to chart a future for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is now available online, giving Fellowship Baptists a month to digest the 24-page document before it comes to a vote June 21 a…
Baptist Dean Eulogizes Chuck Colson
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
A Baptist divinity school dean eulogized former Watergate henchman and Prison Fellowship founder Chuck Colson as a man who was not perfect but forgiven and who never forgot Jesus’ words, “I was in prison and you visited me.&…
There’s a New World Coming
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
There’s a new world coming, it’s already here,
There’s a new world on its way,
There’s a new world coming, it’s already here,
Let’s begin to live that way.
FIRST-PERSON: Antibiotics & Our Future
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in Baptist News, Denominations, Top Religion News
Southern Baptist pastor Steve Willis, author of “Winning the Food Fight,” warns of ties between Americans’ meat-driven diet and the overuse of manmade antibiotics in animals.