More than 10,000 Southern Baptists gathered in Indianapolis last week for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC was confronte...
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Herman Cain "suspended" his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on Saturday, ending one of the most interesting political campaigns of recent years. Cain's energy and ideas had catapulted him into the front ranks of Republican ca ...
No one thought it would end this way. Joe Paterno, the legendary head football coach at Penn State University heard of his firing by the school's board of trustees by phone last night. Just two weeks after achieving the most wins of any NCAA Division ...
This is the season of commencement. High schools, colleges, and universities mark graduation at the end of the academic year. Auditoriums, chapels, convention centers, stadiums, and campus lawns are filled with graduates, family members, faculty, and ...
By the late 1960s, liberal Protestants began asking a rather difficult question. Why were the conservative churches growing? In retrospect, one aspect of the liberal Protestant crisis was reflected in that very question. The mainline Protestant denom ...
The church is known as Shouwang, or the Lighthouse. It is located in Beijing, but it does not have a building. What it does have is enemies -- and chief among them is the Chinese government. As The New York Times reports, the Shouwang Church is a so ...
Is marriage a requirement for pastoral ministry? That question is not new, having been a major focus of debates at crucial points in church history, but it is being asked once again. Erik Eckholm of The New York Times asked the question in a news st ...
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