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More on the Prayer Study Question — A Good Word From Mark Coppenger

My colleague, Professor Mark Coppenger, has contributed a good word on the prayer "research" controversy. His commentary is available at Baptist Press. Here are a few excerpts: So what shall we make of the intercessory prayer test? Well, first, I as ...

April 4, 2006

What to Make of ‘Scientific’ Studies on Prayer?

When studies in recent years purported to show that prayer "works," quite a few Christian leaders championed the research as evidence that prayer can be scientifically and medically verified and validated. I did not join in that celebration for three ...

April 4, 2006

A Death Wish for Humanity?

News reports indicate that University of Texas zoology professor Eric Pianka suggested that the vast majority of human beings should die in order to establish an ecological balance on the planet. According to the Gazette-Enterprise of Seguin, Texas, ...

April 4, 2006

Now They Are Afraid of the Students — The Intellectual Anxiety of the Evolutionists

Given the public bluster of the evolutionary establishment, one would think that these scientists and teachers of science would be up to any challenge to their cherished evolutionary orthodoxy. If they are so certain that their theory is correct and ...

April 3, 2006

Matthew Fox and the Limits of Audacity

Today's commentary deals with Matthew Fox and his new book, A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity. Matthew Fox is really not much of a direct threat to historic Christianity. His heretical teachings are so ex ...

April 3, 2006

Is the New Testament Text Corrupted on Questions of Gender?

Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina and Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary engage in a vigorous on-line exchange over the question of the New Testament text at Beliefnet.com. Professor Ehrman, who has made rejecting the New Test ...

March 31, 2006

Methodists, Mascots,and Morality — What’s Going On Here?

In 2004, Richmond, Virginia was host to the national denominational meetings of the Presbyterian Church USA, the Pentecostal Church International, and the American Baptist Churches USA. In 2012, the United Methodist Church was to hold its General Con ...

March 31, 2006

Why Are There No Disabled Persons in North Korea?

Reuters is reporting a genuinely frightening story out of North Korea. According to the respected news agency, a recent North Korean defector claims that the killing of newborns seen to be defective is now common in what is often called the "Hemit Ki ...

March 31, 2006

The Abortion of Baby Girls in India — At Long Last an Abortionist is Convicted

Dr Anil Sabhani, a physician and abortionist in India's northern state of Haryana has been convicted, along with his X-ray technician, of offering to perform a sex-selection abortion after an ultrasound test indicated that the baby would be a girl. ...

March 30, 2006

Prosperity Theology With a Smile

The New York Times profiles Houston pastor and mega-author Joel Osteen in today's edition. The article, written by Ralph Blumenthal, features Pastor Osteen in his most positive mode: After a warm-up of rousing original rock and gospel hymns with lyr ...

March 30, 2006