The Gospel has swept through a formerly unreached and unengaged people group in the Horn of Africa, with one convert setting a goal of telling four people about Jesus each week, no matter the cost. Her father, a former Muslim sheik, even came to faith in Christ after years of […]
Daily Archives: April 16, 2012
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In the Horn of Africa, Orthodox Christians are counted as “reached,” but they have been known to stone and beat people who carry the Gospel. The faith of their fathers was pure until outsiders wove a macabre legend into their religion. That’s when the Gospel died in this part of […]
His Bible got his children taken away from him, but Beniam thinks everyone in the world should have a copy. “Once you know what is true, you can’t go back,” the believer in the Horn of Africa said. He has been disowned by his Muslim father, but he can’t stop […]
A landmark California law that legalized the teaching of gay history in California’s public school might still be reversed at the ballot, months after an earlier signature drive aimed at overturning it fell short. Opponents of the law are trying once again to collect enough signatures to place the issue […]
Although some religious organizations have said they will not register as campus organizations at Vanderbilt University, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry has applied to remain a registered campus organization. In January officials of Vanderbilt met with students to explain that the university will enforce its non-discrimination policy and a new “all-comers” […]
Richard Land, recently in the news for comments he made about the Trayvon Martin killing, has responded now to charges that he plagiarized those comments by failing to attribute them on air to a Washington Times columnist. In a statement to Baptist Press April 16, Land, president of the Southern […]
The sound of Arabic pop music and the smell of a campfire drew a crowd of faculty, students, trustees and local media to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary April 11 for an event spotlighting the Jordanian Bedouins — the nomadic shepherds who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. The seminary will host […]