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Young conservatives rap SBC leadership as arrogant, isolationist: The Memphis Declaration
About 30 Southern Baptist conservatives from diverse backgrounds are repenting of the triumphalism, arrogance and isolationism they say threatens the integrity of the 16-million-member denomination...
Daughter, dad sing for UMC despite protest: A professor and an Indigo Girl
The United Methodist father and daughter—he a seminary professor and she one-half of the Grammy-winning folk rock Indigo Girls—performed and shared experiences in a featured appearance at the denom...
Towey leaving helm of faith-based initiatives: Garners both plaudits and criticism
President Bush’s lieutenant for promoting government funding for faith-based social programs has announced that he is leaving his post after the end of this month....
Chasing Jesus: North American Baptist Covenant approved
In a quickly organized meeting, leaders of Baptist conventions and networks comprising more than 20 million adherents in North America explored “additional opportunities for fellowship and cooperat...
Abortion rights: Frontal or piecemeal attack? South Dakota's wide-ranging new ban
A wide-ranging abortion ban recently passed by South Dakota is aimed ultimately at the U.S. Supreme Court....
Baptist ethicist Foy Valentine dies: "A 20th-century prophet"
Pioneer southern ethicist Foy Valentine, who embraced civil rights long before many fellow Southern Baptists did, died January 7 of an apparent heart attack in Dallas at the age of 82....
School district pulls ID course after suit: Philosophy course dropped by California district
Just days after being sued, making national news as a result, a California school district agreed to stop teaching a “philosophy” course that critics said promoted creationism and intelligent desig...
Georgia Baptists, Mercer settle on separation terms: Both sides pledge amicable end to relationship
Mercer University and the Georgia Baptist Convention have agreed to terms that will end their 172-year-old relationship....
Americans idolize model family but see limits, study shows: Recognizing gap between ideals and reality
A new survey shows that even as Americans have become more accepting of nontraditional family structures, their view of the ideal family has remained the same—a heterosexual couple, married for lif...
Senators add torture ban to spending bill: Legislators defy president
The U.S. Senate has defied President Bush, voting overwhelmingly to amend a Pentagon spending bill to ban “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” of anyone in U.S. military custody....
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After Katrina, Bush pushes school vouchers: Church-state separation groups charge political opportunism
In Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, President Bush may be able to push through Congress a pet project that has been stymied for four years now—a wide-ranging federal school voucher program....
Protestant churches adopt new technology: Congregations have growing Web presence
Although churches are frequently viewed as behind the times, a new study shows that Protestant congregations are quickly embracing new technologies....
Churches in Southwest will leave the ABC: May be start of national split over homosexuality
In what may be the beginning of a national split over homosexuality, leaders in a regional group of the American Baptist Churches USA have voted to begin leaving the denomination by the end of this...
Iraqi constitution draft worries minorities: Sunnis fear marginalization
Iraqis will vote October 15 on a proposal for a permanent constitution that many Sunni Muslim leaders, other religious minorities and secularists find deeply troubling....
Black Baptists, college form partnership: Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky
Officials from four leading African-American Baptist conventions gathered at a historically white Baptist college in Kentucky and launched a new partnership....
Bush endorses teaching of 'intelligent design' President supports exposure to different ideas: President supports exposure to different ideas
President Bush has endorsed the teaching of “intelligent design” along with natural selection in a roundtable interview with reporters from Texas newspapers....