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EDITORIAL: The dilemma of reporting the facts

Dear Reader, Have you ever been caught in a no-win situation? If so, you can perhaps identify with my position currently. A few weeks ago, we reported that the board of the Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia had, partly in…

Lebanon

How shameful it is that our secular media blames President Bush and our country for causing nearly every hostility that occurs almost anywhere in the world and at the same time blames us for interjecting ourselves in others quarrels and…

Now it can be told

About 100 years have passed since the following story took place. Maybe now it can be told! “Pastor John” had been at the country church for seven years and had earned the respect of the congregation. At age 65, he…

ANALYSIS: Gore documentary film exposes diversity in evangelical opinion on environment

A recent movie by Al Gore has helped reveal a diversity of opinion among Christians when it comes to the environment. While in recent years some evangelical and conservative groups have begun to acknowledge the case for environmental concern, the…

International student workers connect at the Internet Café

Each year there are an estimated 5,000 international students who come to Virginia Beach to work during the summer. These students come from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and China. They are usually A-B students, who are studying in the sciences as…

Muslim refugees say goodbye to Lebanese Baptist shelters

BEIRUT, Lebanon (ABP) — Hundreds of Lebanese Muslims who had taken refuge in Lebanese Baptist institutions said good-bye to their hosts Aug. 17. Meanwhile, Lebanese Christian leaders continued to care for refugees still in Beirut. As a cease-fire took hold…

Winkler’s case shows pastors’ wives often fight unknown pressures

SELMER, Tenn. (ABP) — Mary Winkler allegedly killed her husband, a 31-year-old pastor, because of financial and familial problems — problems often present but undetected in the lives of pastors' wives. After posting her $750,000 bond, Winkler's lawyers said, she…

Texas author pioneers new genre: Christian ‘graphic novels’

FLOWER MOUND, Texas (ABP) — Robert Luedke loved drawing and reading comic books when he was a boy. Years later, he became a Christian. Now Luedke is bringing both passions together for a career. Luedke, president of Texas-based Head Press…

Bush’s reference to ‘Islamic fascism’ raises question of term’s usefulness

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush's use of the term “Islamic fascism” to describe the conspirators in a foiled London airline bombing plot echoes many conservatives who have employed versions of the term in recent years to discuss Islamic-based terrorism. But…

Correction

In the Aug. 15 story “Are secular newspapers ready for Christian cartoons?” please change the name of the comic strip to “Heaven's Love Thrift Shop.” It was initially listed as “Heaven's Love Gift Shop.”

The Church as a Community of Peace

The carnage in the Middle East has moved me toward the breaking point on the entire business of war. I am genuinely wondering whether as a Christian moral thinker, it is my place to offer support for war, even in…

Churches transformed by Katrina help rebuild New Orleans — house by house

Robert Marus/ABP Steven Meriwether, pastor of St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, places prefabricated flooring in a flooded home that volunteers from the church and others have worked to gut and renovate. NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Hurricane Katrina…

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children