Today we have the privilege of bringing you this interview with Pastor Johnny Hunt who recently has announced his willingness to be... | Friday May 09, 2008
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Our kids were really wanting a donut, so we obliged. I really don't like sweets very much, but that Chocolate Kreme really hit the spot. The... | Friday May 09, 2008
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Pastor Dan of Street Prophets, a progressive religious group blog, parses the Wall Street Journal's coverage of a Christian Right group's... | Friday May 09, 2008
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The economy is big news these days. The rising gas prices and increasing number of foreclosures are important stories throughout the... | Friday May 09, 2008
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It really is impossible to stress too often that there isn’t one “Catholic vote” in American politics, right now. When... | Friday May 09, 2008
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According to Wikipedia, the roots of Mother's Day may go all the way back to celebrations of motherhood by the ancient Greeks. In 16th... | Friday May 09, 2008
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A political impasse and related violence has created a humanitarian and spiritual crisis in Zimbabwe, says a Baptist pastor there contacted... | Friday May 09, 2008
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Kenyn Cureton is vice president for church ministries for the Family Research Council. The FRC is a right-wing religious organization that... | Friday May 09, 2008
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(RNS) A rabbinic call for Jews to boycott the Olympic Games in China has spawned a backlash by major American Jewish organizations. by... | Friday May 09, 2008
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NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) A top U.S. archbishop, recently named to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, said the panel of... | Friday May 09, 2008
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NEW ORLEANS (RNS) About two dozen parishioners from five Catholic parishes that are scheduled to be closed within the year conducted their... | Friday May 09, 2008
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A group of mainly conservative Evangelicals has recently promoted an " Evangelical Manifesto " that appears to be designed as a voice of... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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In the comment section to yesterday's post regarding the resignation of IMB Regional Leader Rodney Hammer, IMB trustee Hershael York ... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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One of the young pastors I have come to know over the last couple of years is Alan Cross. He blogs at Downshoredrift. Alan has led his... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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Yesterday's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reports on what to expect at the next round of hearings, scheduled to begin May 19, in the cases of... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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Jeff Weiss of the Dallas Morning News wonders if Hillary Clinton's Doug Coe connection is as troubling to her campaign as Obama's "pastor... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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In March, an article in The New Yorker made some pretty big waves in Episcopal circles. As we discussed at the time, the article was... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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There they go again.
As I keep mentioning, no organization in Washington, D.C. | Thursday May 08, 2008
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The staggering tragedy in Myanmar (Burma) continues to unfold. Some estimate the death toll could climb from more 20,000 to 100,000. The... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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News reporters are starting to step up to the challenge of exploring the complicated issue of why a person joins a church. A pair of... | Thursday May 08, 2008
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What do you do when someone changes the definition of the words you've been using all your life to describe yourself? Evangelicals have... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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While most of us have been giving our primary attention to primary election results, hundreds of thousands of people along the coast of... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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Rodney Hammer is one of the finest missiologists ever employed by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He has... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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In 2004 Jimmy Draper sensed the graying of the SBC. He called leaders to take an initiative to engage and encourage young leaders. Intent to... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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In Orange County, California, an interfaith religious group, Welcome INN (Interfaith Needs Network), has filed a federal lawsuit challenging... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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Demography is destiny. For the most part, this apothegm has defined this year’s Democratic presidential election results. It sure... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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Why did Mildred Jeter Loving take the risky stand that she did, fighting the Commonwealth of Virginia’s law that said it was illegal... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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Since 2004, eight Episcopal congregations have split apart or left the Central Florida Diocese because of the direction of the national... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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My good friend C.B. Scott has been on the opposite side of the fence in various debates. Each time he has truly been one that openly looks... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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Kate Moran of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans produced a tremendous story for the Religion News Service, which was subsequently picked... | Wednesday May 07, 2008
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In popular Catholic piety, Padre Pio Pietrelcina is still a revered figure, if not to the extent that he was for decades after World War... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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I'm really sick at the moment (102 temp) and I thought a lots-o-links post would be therapeutic. And away we go. A Cubs website: Just One... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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The the Los Angeles Times reported May 2 that a lecturer at California State University at Fullerton got the ax because she refused to... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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The following email was received from one of our missionaries on the field. I do not know this person, nor have I ever correseponded with... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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Pathways is reporting Avery Willis will be nominated by John Marshall in Indiana to be the next President of the SBC. No wait, word is out... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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Today's Wall Street Journal reports that Alliance Defense Fund is attempting to create a constitutional test case to challenge the tax... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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We have been privileged to learn that another candidate will be nominated for SBC President when the convention’s messengers meet in... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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Hear me, people, I am very familiar with the competing truth claims connected with the great barbeque churches of the American... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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Ever since I saw the documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed last month, I’ve been waiting for some mainstream media coverage of... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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When the voice on the radio alarm this morning said the polls open at 6:30 I jumped out of bed and started the coffee pot. I was going to be... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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Delegates to the United Methodist Church General Conference held recently in Fort Worth, Texas, debated among other things the role of... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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The University of Tennessee’s men’s basketball program now has a couple of religion ghosts following its rather successful... | Tuesday May 06, 2008
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As noted previously , LifeWay Resources' annual statistical study of the Southern Baptist Convention demonstrated in rather clear... | Monday May 05, 2008
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A few months ago Business Week published an article entitled "How Do Companies Respond to Blog Attacks?" Writer Stephen Baker predicted: ... | Monday May 05, 2008
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1985. Some mark 1985 as something of a watershed in the survival of the Conservative Resurgence. It was the year of the Peace Committee... | Monday May 05, 2008
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In Nakashima v. Oregon State Board of Education , (OR Sup. Ct., May 8, 2008), the Oregon Supreme Court clarified the test that is to be... | Monday May 05, 2008
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It’s no secret that the U.S. Catholic church has comparatively fewer priests than it had 40 years ago. | Monday May 05, 2008
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Ecumenicals and the Narrowing of Parameters
I am not a blue blood in the SBC. I was raised in the Church of Christ and the Disciples of... | Monday May 05, 2008
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Gavin DeGraw's new album comes out tomorrow, I think. I thought Chariot was really fun pop music with a fairly unique sound. Watch the first... | Monday May 05, 2008
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Down in the ultra-conservative southwest corner of Louisiana, Democrats are celebrating the special election that will send State Rep.... | Monday May 05, 2008
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You can visit many churches that show no signs of awareness that we live in a digital age, awash in multiple media venues and online... | Sunday May 04, 2008
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