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  Fight over N.Y. mosque becomes a partisan wedge issue

  What started as a local zoning debate about an Islamic center near Ground Zero morphed into a fight over religious expression, and now it has turned into an election-year political brawl.

  08/19/2010 - By admin

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  Poll: More confused about Obama’s faith, oppose church politicking

  A new poll released by the Pew Research Center Aug. 19 shows a sharp uptick in the percentage of Americans who are confused about President Obama’s faith. It also shows that a slight majority of Americans don’t want churches involved in politics.

  08/19/2010 - By Administrator

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  Analysis: Mosque decision leaves religious pluralism status unclear

  The emotions and rhetoric surrounding the project suggest Islam’s role in the United States may be the latest battle front in an increasingly diverse society’s culture wars.

  08/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  Controversial theologian Clark Pinnock dies

  Clark Pinnock, an influential theologian whose spiritual pilgrimage led from a fiery fundamentalism as a young professor to an openness that caused some to brand him a heretic, died Aug. 15 of a heart attack.

  08/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  Members of Austin church use family vacation to distribute Bibles

  Families from The Church at Canyon Creek in Austin partered with the Southern Cross Project to hand out Bibles to Chinese tourists in Southeast Asia.

  08/18/2010 - By admin

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  Mexican family takes pride in new home CERI provided

  When a team from Children’s Emergency Relief International—the global arm of Baptist Child & Family Services—led a fact-finding mission to Mexico to assess humanitarian needs in Chiapas, one family captured their attention.

  08/18/2010 - By admin

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  Hispanic evangelicals warn GOP against alienating Latino voters

  Leaders of the nation’s largest Hispanic evangelical organization warned leaders of the Republican Party Aug. 17 that their increasingly strident rhetoric on immigration puts the party at risk of losing an entire generation of Latino voters.

  08/17/2010 - By Administrator

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  Texas WMU unanimously elects new leader

  The Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas board of directors unanimously elected Sandy Wisdom-Martin Aug. 14 as the organization’s next executive director- treasurer.

  08/17/2010 - By admin

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  Exiled pastor returns from ministry in Gaza

  The exiled pastor of Gaza Baptist Church began teaching Aug. 16 at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary following a three-week visit to his homeland to preach, teach and distribute food and medicine to the poor.

  08/16/2010 - By Administrator

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  Baptist leader says Obama wrong about Ground Zero mosque

  The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's moral concerns agency said Aug. 14 that he disagreed with President Obama's assessment that Muslims have a constitutional right to build the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City.

  08/16/2010 - By Administrator

• Baptists respond to massive Pakistan flooding

  Baptists around the globe are responding to the floods that have afflicted Pakistan for two weeks, sending money and resources in the aftermath of what could become the nation’s biggest natural disaster in modern times.

  08/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  Washington in a war of words over how to label terrorists

  In addition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration is fighting on another front—a domestic war of words over how to describe the threat posed by militant Islamic terrorism.

  08/12/2010 - By admin