Most community foundations fund faith-based social services, study shows_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Most community foundations fund
faith-based social services, study shows

By Adelle Banks

Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS)–Most U.S. community foundations fund faith-based social services but don't permit their grants to support explicit religious activities, a new study shows.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Call to kill terrorists ‘in the name of the Lord’ sparks outcry_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Call to kill terrorists 'in the name of the Lord' sparks outcry

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP)–If American troops kill Osama bin Laden, a Southern Baptist ethicist insists it should be “in the name of justice,” not “in the name of the Lord” as televangelist Jerry Falwell suggests.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Nov. 14: The Creator rules the whole of his handiwork_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

LifeWay Family Bible Series for Nov. 14

The Creator rules the whole of his handiwork

Psalm 33:6-17, 20-2

By Angela Hamm

First Baptist Church, Lewisville

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptist Missions Foundation marks 20 years of mission funding_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Texas Baptist Missions Foundation
marks 20 years of mission funding

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

It started as a two-year Baptist General Convention of Texas fund-raising emphasis to encourage church starting. Thousands of changed lives later, the Texas Baptist Missions Foundation has blossomed to touch many aspects of the convention's ministry during the past 20 years.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Evangelical women begin to speak out about depression_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Evangelical women begin to speak out about depression

By Dorianne Perruci

Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS)–Like her famous father, Ruth Graham knows how to deliver an uplifting and honest message.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Hispanic McAllen church launches English-speaking mission_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Hispanic McAllen church launches English-speaking mission

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

MCALLEN–Congregations struggle with worship style preferences. Like many other Hispanic churches, Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel throws language, culture and generational preferences into its balancing act.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Christian tourists begin returning to Holy Land after four-year hiatus_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Christian tourists begin returning to
Holy Land after four-year hiatus

By Michele Chabin

Religion News Service

JERUSALEM (RNS)–After a nearly four-year hiatus sparked by the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, Christian tourists are coming back to the Holy Land.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptist Forum_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM

Freedom 'restraints'

The Texas Baptist Forum in the Nov. 1 Baptist Standard is an interesting cross-section of the contemporary views on church and state in Texas and beyond.

Several letters rightly expressed the reasons the United States may appropriately be called a secular nation. One lamented perceived hostility from the government toward religious expression.

Believers in the first century would laugh at today's Americans complaining of restraints on our religious freedom. Most likely, believers in the Two-Thirds world would take offense at the same.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Louisiana College violated accrediting body’s standards and internal policies, study says_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Louisiana College violated accrediting body's
standards and internal policies, study says

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP)–Citing “a general climate of fear” and “pervasive mistrust” among faculty, administrators and trustees, a special team of investigators has concluded Louisiana College violated principles of academic freedom and proper board governance.

The report came from a specially appointed study team from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, sent to investigate several recent controversies over academic freedom and other issues at the Louisiana Baptist institution. The study concluded the school had violated both standards set by the regional accrediting body and its own stated college policies in several areas.

“The committee concluded, based upon extensive interviews … that a significant portion of the board of trustees of Louisiana College are influenced if not controlled by the agenda of the Louisiana Inerrancy Fellowship and the Louisiana Baptist Convention,” the report stated.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Voters in 11 states approve bans on same-sex marriage_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Voters in 11 states approve bans on same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON (ABP)–Opponents of same-sex marriage got a clean sweep in the Nov. 2 elections, with voters in 11 states–from Michigan to Oregon and from Georgia to North Dakota–passing constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage.

Most of the proposals carried by large margins, according to the most recent figures available. In Mississippi, voters passed their state's ban by an 86-to-14 percent margin. In several other states–Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, North Dakota and Oklahoma–similar bans passed by margins of about three to one.

The amendments in Utah and Montana passed by 66-to-34 percent in each state. Even in Michigan and Oregon–states carried by Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry–similar bans passed by wide margins (59 to 41 percent in Michigan's case, and 57 to 43 percent in Oregon's).

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Midland missionary serves in Uganda _110804

Posted: 11/05/04 Midland missionary serves in Uganda John Witte of First Baptist Church in Midland, an International Mission Board worker in northern Uganda, says Bible stories in the heart language…

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge

Missouri Baptist Convention files new suits against five agencies than changed charters_110804

Posted: 11/05/04

Missouri Baptist Convention files new suits
against five agencies than changed charters

By Vicki Brown

Missouri Word & Way

RAYTOWN, Mo. (ABP)–On the same day it opened its 170th annual session, the Missouri Baptist Convention filed new legal action against five related agencies.

11/05/2004 - By John Rutledge