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Here’s why the new Texas school curriculum is so very, very bad

Last week I spent a day in Austin, Texas, to testify for the second time against the new (and newly named) “Bluebonnet Learning K-5 Reading Language Arts” curriculum. Despite significant opposition, the Bible-infused curriculum was approved, which should be unsurprising...

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Virginia Baptists on alert

The Virginia Baptist Mission Board's disaster relief ministries are on alert for potential tropical storms, says Terry Raines, the board's disaster relief coordinator. Tropical Storm Gustav is expected to return to hurricane status and make landfall somewhere on the Gulf…

EDITORIAL: The fires of persecution

Iindex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133). Survivors watched helplessly from a distance as their homes and churches burned. The most recent attacks were in reaction to the murders by suspected Maoists of a Hindu Leader Laxmananda Saraswati and four of his disciples on Aug. 21….

Helping the generations

There scarcely has been a time in Rob Sandford's life when he was not associated with Baptist student ministry. “Born and raised in a Baptist church,” he became involved in campus ministry at the age of 18 when he entered…

OUT LOUD

“The fact is that megachurches aren't — and never have been — solely grandiose political pens in which only Republican elephants lumber about.” Scott Thumma The co-author of Beyond Megachurch Myths was writing in a commentary in USA Today following…

FAITHSHAPERS: Giving to God

Money is a tricky topic in our society, and we have to be careful how we handle it, because our children are watching. If we act like money is the answer to everything, what will they learn? It is important…

Is voting a Christian rite or right?

Jason Ford, 29, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., will be spending Election Day at home this year. A self-identified evangelical Christian, Ford cast his vote for President Bush in 2004, but says he and his wife plan to stay away from the…

FAITH DIGEST

Church bells a nuisance? A town hall in southern England has ruled its 14th century village church has just as much right to ring its bells as the villagers have to operate their noisy lawnmowers and hedge trimmers. Some residents…