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Southern Baptists take a stand: The SBC removes an historic church and passes an historic statement on IVF

More than 10,000 Southern Baptists gathered in Indianapolis last week for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC was confronte...

July 17, 2024

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When the Lights Go Out: The Death of a Denomination

Adrian Hamilton is concerned that the Church of England "will not survive my children's lifetime and quite possibly not even my own." Writing in The Independent [London], Hamilton writes of a Church of England that remains established as the national ...

May 4, 2011

The Briefing

Yet another rally in Washington... The New York Times claims a victory for families... A prominent abortion doctor dies... The Supreme Court looks again at free speech... Ted Haggard makes an odd argument... And the Reformation is reconsidered ...

September 28, 2010

What Would Luther Say? — A Church Apologizes for Church Discipline

The great moral revolution on the issue of homosexuality collides with the total surrender of a liberal denomination, and the result is the church's apology for having once stood on biblical grounds. That was the picture just a few days ago, when the ...

September 23, 2010

Real Enough? — Relics, Gopher Wood, and the Sufficiency of Scripture

For centuries, an inordinate and unhealthy attention has been directed to certain items claimed to be relics of Christ, Christian leaders, or illustrious Christians. The veneration of relics has been a major feature of Roman Catholic popular piety si ...

May 13, 2010

This Man Was No Moderate: The Legacy of Cecil Sherman

Some men leave an indelible mark on their times. Cecil Sherman was one of those men. Sherman died April 17 at age 82, just two days after suffering a massive heart attack in Richmond, Virginia. He lived long enough to be almost unknown among a genera ...

April 23, 2010

“The Year of Our Lord” — Diploma Trouble in Texas

A group of students at Trinity University in San Antonio is petitioning the administration to remove the words "in the year of our Lord" from the school's diplomas. Senior Sidra Qureshi said she started the petition in order to assure the school's co ...

April 21, 2010

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