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Television program profiles friendships between Muslims, Baptists

{youtube}9M_KIOG7s04{/youtube} NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — One thing Muslims and Baptists have in common is they are often identified by their extremists, according to a documentary airing on ABC television stations in January and February. "Different Books, Common Word" offers an…

FAITH DIGEST

Number of female senior pastors doubles in 10 years. One in 10 U.S. churches employs a woman as senior pastor, double the percentage from a decade ago, according to a new survey by the Barna Group. Most of the women—58…

Meals on Wheels: A mission trip in your neighborhood

Clement “Mickey” Woodward is a member of First Baptist Church in Richmond; and for more than 10 years he’s made a mission trip once a month. His mission experience (or more like over 5,000 mission experiences) has typically taken him…

Blessed are the Persecuted: SBC resolutions noting persecution

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — While staunch defenders of human rights and religious liberty for all, Southern Baptists rarely mentioned religious persecution in convention resolutions until the 1990s. That coincides with increased calls by social conservatives, including the newly conservative leadership…

Blessed are the Persecuted: Where persecution is real, it’s intense

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Some Christians in the United States are quick to cry “persecution” if courts, schools or businesses fail to favor their religion above others. But in places around the world where Christians face beatings, economic reprisal, imprisonment or…

Blessed are the Persecuted: Defining, and responding to, persecution

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Baptists generally prefer to handle violations of religious freedom through quiet diplomacy instead of media headlines denouncing “persecution” of Christians, said a freedom-and-justice specialist for the Baptist World Alliance. Christians in Tehsil Gojra, Pakistan, examine…

2009: The year in newsmakers

(ABP) — Here are some of the top newsmakers in 2009 as reported by Associated Baptist Press. 1. The Baptist movement turns 400 Baptists gathering in 2009 celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Baptist tradition. While there are different theories…

2009: The year in Baptist newsmakers

(ABP) — Here are some of the top newsmakers in 2009 as reported by Associated Baptist Press. John Upton 1. The Baptist movement turns 400 Baptists gathering in 2009 celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Baptist tradition. While there are…

2009: The year in deaths of prominent Baptists

Paschal Dan Goodman, 40, a professor at Gardner-Webb University's M. Christopher White School of Divinity, unexpectedly Jan. 13. Oscar Romo, 79, a pioneer in starting ethnic Southern Baptist churches, Jan. 16 from complications related to Parkinson's disease. Millard Fuller,…

The holidays, family dysfunction and familiarity

By Amy Butler Like many of you, I had the opportunity to spend significant time with my family this holiday season. By “family,” I mean not my immediate family with whom I live everyday, but those whom I only get…

RIGHT or WRONG? Emerging Church

By Michael Clingenpeel Our church just hired a pastor who is young enough to be the child of many members. His language about “the emerging church,” “postmodernism” and “interfaith dialogue” distresses older members. Communication and context seem to be the…

Religious games and toys more than child’s play, authors insists

BOSTON (RNS) — On the first day of her introductory religion class at Merrimack College, professor Rebecca Sachs Norris put her students to work at having some fun. She assigned teams of three or four students to play some of the…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war