• Most evangelicals, Baptists tolerant, even universalist, survey suggests

  WASHINGTON (ABP) — A massive survey of Americans’ religious views shows that Baptists, like the overall population, generally are socially tolerant of other faiths.

  06/25/2008 - By Administrator

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  Before you get married: Loving your in-laws

  Before you get married: Loving your in-laws is the fifth in a five-part series by retired pastor and director of missions Wade Paris to assist pastors in helping couples begin Christian marriages through premarital counseling.

  06/23/2008 - By admin

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  Before you get married: Marriage and sex

  Before you get married: Marriage and sex is the fourth in a five-part series by retired pastor and director of missions Wade Paris to assist pastors in helping couples begin Christian marriages through premarital counseling.

  06/23/2008 - By admin

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  Before you get married: Marriage and money

  Before you get married: Marriage and money is the third in a five-part series by retired pastor and director of missions Wade Paris to assist pastors in helping couples begin Christian marriages through premarital counseling.

  06/23/2008 - By admin

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  Before you get married: Four myths of marriage

  Before you get married: Four myths of marriage is the second in a five-part series by retired pastor and director of missions Wade Paris to assist pastors in helping couples begin Christian marriages through premarital counseling.

  06/23/2008 - By admin

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  Before you get married: Questions that need answers

  This is the first in a five-part series by retired Missouri pastor and director of missions Wade Paris to assist pastors in helping couples begin Christian marriages through premarital counseling.

  06/23/2008 - By admin

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  No easy answers dealing with religious, civil dimensions of marriage

  When it comes to pronouncing a couple “husband and wife," how did the government get into the sanctification business? And if the government has a legitimate right to define and regulate marriage, should it also offer incentives to promote healthy marriages?

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  Legal scholar looks at prohibition on polygamy

  John Witte, a scholar of marriage law and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory Law School in Atlanta, responded to questions about why prosecuting adults for polygamy is so difficult and whether the practice may one day be legalized in the U.S.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  Sex & Sects: Why does sex play such a large role within fringe religions?

  Why do people join or remain members of a group that practices unusual sexual behaviors? And what’s more, what kind of sexual power do the leaders of these religious movements hold over their followers?

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  Couples consider ‘Countdown’ time well spent

  Countdown to Marriage, a program designed by Byron and Carla Weathersbee of Legacy Family Ministries in Waco, prepares engaged couples for marriage through seven weeks of topical discussion of common marital issues.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  State offers incentive for premarital education

  Texas has joined a growing number of states that waive or reduce the costs of marriage license fees to couples who complete premarital education courses. And the Baptist General Convention of Texas is launching an initiative to enlist churches as providers of the educational program.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  Building relationships is key to ministry to nontraditional families

  How should a congregation respond to an unmarried cohabitating couple’s request to join the church? Churches likely will face this and other tough questions as society’s definition of family continues to change.

  06/20/2008 - By admin