Westerners tend to assume most Muslims are strongly committed to the Quran and to establishing Islamic republics, but that isn’t an accurate picture of Islam’s global populace, Mike Edens, a professor of theology and Islamic studies, tells Baptist Press concerning a Pew Research Center study of more than 38,000 Muslims […]
Daily Archives: August 28, 2012
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Jim Haney, director of global research for Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board, commenting on the recent Pew survey on the world’s Muslims, notes that the Muslim world “challenges Christians to carefully translate their faith so that it is good news for Muslims of all expressions and levels of commitment.”
A respected businessman in one of the Muslim world’s most traditional regions weighs the cost of following Christ.
With Isaac taking aim on southeast Louisiana, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief “as ready as we can be at this time,” Louisiana leader reports.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary closed the main campus and the Baton Rouge extension center Tuesday, Aug. 28, through Thursday, Aug. 30, in advance of Hurricane Isaac. Students who are able to leave were encouraged to do so, but the seminary stopped short of calling for a mandatory campus evacuation.
In a move that gives religious organizations some wiggle room but doesn’t solve the larger issue, the Obama administration has broadened its health care law guidelines so that all nonprofit religious organizations are exempted — for one year — from being penalized for not carrying insurance plans that cover contraceptives […]
Seattle native Warren Mainard is returning home to plant a church where only 4 percent of the people attend an evangelical church on a given Sunday. “It’s not that most people in Seattle have any animosity toward Christ or the church, they just don’t consider Him essential to their lives,” […]