Southern Baptist Disaster Relief feeding units are in place more than 24 hours ahead of schedule, with plans to begin no later than Saturday serving 225,000 meals a day in Louisiana and Mississippi. The response adds to the goodwill Southern Baptists planted during Katrina and other disasters.
Daily Archives: August 31, 2012
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New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary escaped Hurricane Isaac’s winds and rain with damage estimated at less than $300,000. The slow-moving storm raged on throughout the day Aug. 29, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But this storm was no Katrina and NOBTS officials expect to have the campus fully operational […]
An Internet video by the former PBS “Science Guy” attacking creationism as “unfit for children” has stirred both creation scientists and intelligent design theorists to counter what they see as Nye’s misunderstandings.
An advisory team on the issue of Calvinism met “to listen, to learn and to hope,” SBC Executive Committee President Frank Page reported after the 16-member group met Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn. The goal for the meeting, Page said in an Aug. 31 statement to Baptist Press, “was not […]
Mitt Romney accepted the Republican nomination Thursday night (Aug. 30), delivering an acceptance speech that was dominated by the economy but that also included a defense of the unborn, traditional marriage and a rare mention of his Mormon religion.
Oklahoma’s Landry Jones enters his senior season as one of the best quarterbacks in school history. But he says his first identity is as a follower of Christ who happens to play football.
A Kansas prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against a Kansas City-area Planned Parenthood facility accused of performing illegal late-term abortions. The decision ended a nine-year legal battle initiated by then-Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline to prosecute the abortion giant in criminal court.