A walk-through replica of the tabernacle in Israel is drawing 15,000 visitors a year. Although children in Israel study the tabernacle in school, workers at the site say adults, whether Jewish or otherwise, can learn about the atonement reflected in the tabernacle, which is part of wilderness account in the […]
Daily Archives: April 23, 2012
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Former Watergate felon turned evangelical leader and Prison Fellowship founder Charles W. “Chuck” Colson, 80, died Saturday (April 21) in Fairfax, Va. He had suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage in his brain in late March and was hospitalized ever since. A Southern Baptist and member of First Baptist Church in Naples, […]
Leaders throughout the Southern Baptist Convention say Chuck Colson’s death was a loss for evangelicalism and that his life — particularly his ministry in prisons — had a great eternal impact.
Despite conference organizers’ best attempts to keep the Baptist Conference on Sexuality & Covenant focused on broader issues April 19-21, the conversation routinely centered on the topic of homosexuality.
The New York City ban on religious worship in public schools violates both the free exercise of religion and the prohibition on government establishment of religion, a Southern Baptist entity and other groups contend in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court. The case is Bronx Household of Faith v. […]
The push for immigration reform shows some hopeful signs after years of contentious battle over the issue, a three-member panel said during a conference on cultural renewal in Washington, D.C. “The momentum is in the right direction,” Southern Baptist public policy specialist Barrett Duke said of the prospect of the […]
The Voice of the Martyrs “will continue serving with our persecuted brothers and sisters,” the ministry stated after the death of its executive director in mid-April. Tom White, 64, who led VOM for more than two decades, died in what is being described as a possible suicide on the heels […]