Hebrew University scholar Shalom Paul delivers the opening lecture of a series complementing the six-month Dead Sea Scrolls & the Bible exhibition at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Daily Archives: July 13, 2012
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The North American Mission Board’s executive director for chaplaincy, Douglas Carver, is reiterating that Southern Baptist military chaplains endorsed by NAMB on behalf of the convention do not support same-sex civil unions that might take place on some military installations. Carver’s statement follows a news article published by the Associated […]
LifeWay Research surveyed 7,000 churches in 2008 to discover the principles involved with healthy congregations. Last year, LifeWay’s researchers went back into the field to focus on individual believers, asking more than 4,000 people about their spiritual lives and level of maturity. The project has produced eight biblical factors that […]
The U.S. Episcopal Church has become the largest American denomination to put its stamp of approval on same-sex unions, as delegates at its triennial convention adopted a provisional liturgy for such occasions. Meanwhile, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has narrowly rejected a proposal to abandon the traditional definition of marriage.
Mississippi’s only abortion clinic remains open for now because of a federal judge’s extension of an order preventing enforcement of a new state law.
Church ministry assistants feel affirmed by “respect, appreciation and common courtesy,” says Lana Rose, ministry assistant (MA) specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Convention who leads MA training events for LifeWay Christian Resources.
Abortion clinics are beginning to offer monetary discounts to women who get the lethal procedures on Sundays, when protesting Christians are in worship. Also in Culture Digest, read about a persecuted Christian, pornography, Planned Parenthood funding and the closing of a stem cell bank.