ATLANTA (ABP) – Christians no longer share a consensus that sex outside of marriage is always wrong and must find new ways to deal with that reality besides splitting into smaller and smaller groups over issues like homosexuality and contraception, a keynote speaker said April 19 in the opening session […]
Daily Archives: April 19, 2012
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The North American Mission Board has taken responsibility for funding the multi-state Appalachian Regional Ministry, paying the executive director’s salary and benefits and the ministry’s operational expenses. Begun in 1999 as a partnership of 13 state conventions, the North American Mission Board and Woman’s Missionary Union, ARM focuses on church […]
The teenage birth rate in the United States has fallen to the lowest level since 1946, according to a recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics. An overall rate drop of 9 percent from 2009 to 2010 was accompanied by decreases in the rates of all racial and […]
Comments by Richard Land about the Trayvon Martin killing “have angered many and opened wounds from the past,” the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s executive committee said in a statement released April 18. The ERLC executive committee also registered concern that Land had used sources from other media without proper […]
Upon her retirement, Vivian Buttrey hails Seminary Extension as a great service to those who don’t have the opportunity to attend traditional Southern Baptist Convention seminaries, including bivocational pastors, laypeople and English as a Second Language students. “I appreciate most of all the people I worked with and the people […]
A coalition that includes a Southern Baptist ethicist has written to Congress urging hearings on the harm of pornography and the need to enforce obscenity laws.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney leads President Obama by 53 points among white evangelicals, an advantage that is far ahead of where John McCain stood among that group at this stage in the race four years ago, according to a new Pew poll. The new poll was released the […]