Mainstream Baptist

Kudos to the Texas Freedom Network for getting educators and scientists out in force to observe and testify at the Texas State Board of Educator's science hearing. They came to oppose teaching...

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Robert Parham has posted a story on Ethics Daily about a shameful split vote among Baptist laymen serving as Supervisors of Henrico County, Virginia that denied a Muslim congregation permission to...

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Raw Story has posted a story and a video about a church sign in Wichita, Kansas denouncing the election of Barack Obama. The pastor of the church knows that Obama professes to be a Christian, but he...

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Mark Ray has posted an insightful essay entitled "Is the Second Wave of the Conservative Resurgence Coming to Fruition" for the Baptist Studies Bulletin. By "second wave" Ray is referring to the...

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Kevin Mattson hasw posted some valuable book reviews under the title "Has Conservatism Cracked Up?" at the Dissent Magazine website. Here's an insightful paragraph: What makes conservatism so...

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In an essay entitled "Depression Economics Returns", Economist Paul Krugman, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, says the U.S. is already in the realm of depression economics. The size...

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Ethics Daily has posted a story about the plans for New Baptist Covenant Regional meetings. In January 2008 more than 15,000 Baptists from across the United States, Canada and Mexico met for the...

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The Supreme Court heard arguments today for the Summum Vs. Pleasant Grove City, Utah case. Hollyn Hollman, representing the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, presented a...

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When I was a teenager at a Baptist church, preachers were constantly telling boys and girls not to hold hands during church services. Naturally, we perceived that as a challenge to do so and couples...

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Bill Berkowitz has done a masterful job of summarizing the work of the Bush administration's faith-based initiatives. Here's the paragraph that leads into more detailed discussion of six of the...

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The New Republic has posted a valuable essay by Damon Linker, author of The Theocons, discussing why the religious right will not fade quietly into the sunset after this election. The single issue...

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Last week, a journalist asked me for a comment on an article in the Baptist Times last week about Christian leaders urging world leaders not to forget the poor in the midst of the ongoing global...

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