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Lessons learned from the Iraq war

By David Gushee For President-elect Barack Obama, the agreement reached between the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government that sets a December 2011 exit date for American combat troops is a great Christmas gift. Indeed, the fact that this deal…

Kentucky Baptist paper names editor

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Kentucky Baptists have tapped veteran denominational journalist Todd Deaton to become the next editor of their historic newspaper, the Western Recorder. Newly appointed Western Recorder Editor Todd Deaton interacted with mission board members prior to his affirmation…

Ky. church, in Advent tradition, remembers homicide victims

Members of Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., mark the second Sunday of Advent by placing crosses on their church lawn to remember victims of violence. (Photo by Bill Campbell) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Sixty-five crosses dot the front lawn…

‘True Woman’ movement seeks counter-revolution to feminism

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A group of conservative Christian women is seeking 100,000 signatures on a "True Woman Manifesto" aimed at sparking a counter-revolution to the feminist movement of the 1960s. Introduced at a gathering of more than 6,000 women…

President Bush discusses faith in TV interview

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In a television interview broadcast Dec. 8, President Bush said he doesn't know if God wanted him to be president, doubts the Bible is literally true, agrees you can believe in God and evolution simultaneously and believes Christians and…

The Caboose of Christianity

By John Pierce We all have our blind spots. Clarity often comes only from the perspective of hindsight. That’s what leaders of Bob Jones University confessed in apologizing for the independent, fundamentalist Christian school’s past racist policies. A statement on…

Public ban on Christmas symbols may be great faith gift

By Norman Jameson No trees adorned with twinkling lights will bless — or aggravate — visitors to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s two main libraries this year, according to a Dec. 5 story in the Raleigh News…

Mo. appeals court hears latest round in Windermere dispute

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Both sides in the legal dispute between the Missouri Baptist Convention and a breakaway agency faced tough questions at a recent hearing before an appellate panel. The Nov. 25 argument in the Missouri Court of Appeals for the…

Christian leaders urge Obama to make Israeli-Palestinian peace top priority

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A group of Christian leaders in the United States has called on President-elect Barack Obama to make the Israeli-Palestinian peace process an immediate priority during his first year in office. Leaders from a broad spectrum of American…

Russian Baptists mourn death of Orthodox leader

MOSCOW (ABP) — A Russian Baptist leader praised Patriarch Alexey II of the Russian Orthodox Church, who died Dec. 5, as a creator of “peace and consensus” during the post-communist and post-Soviet years in Russia. The Russian Union of Evangelical…

Richard Land compares President Bush to Harry Truman

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A prominent Southern Baptist leader has compared George W. Bush to Harry Truman, another president whose approval ratings dropped to the 20s in his final months in office but is now considered one of the greatest…

Studies show rise in greenhouse gases in 2007

ATLANTA (ABP) — Greenhouse-gas emissions continued to rise in 2007, according to two new studies. But Southern Baptists are still divided over what, if anything, to do about it. The World Meteorological Organisation said Nov. 26 that concentrations of carbon…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear