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  • Abortionist who knows he is ‘killing’ returns late-term abortions to Dallas

    11/09/2009 9:58:09 AM PST · by NYer · 11 replies · 281+ views
    cna ^ | November 8, 2009
    The new late-term abortion clinic / Pro-life leader Karen Garnett Dallas, Texas, Nov 8, 2009 / 07:12 pm (CNA).- An abortionist who says he know he is “killing” has opened a late-term abortion clinic in North Texas, prompting local pro-lifers to express their dismay that such a clinic was absent for only 14 months. However, they also affirmed their resolve to peacefully end the “grave evil” in their community. Dr. Curtis Boyd, who opened the first abortion clinic in Texas in 1973, is the only doctor in North Texas who will perform abortions on women up to six months...
  • (Christian) Grandmother who objected to gay march is accused of hate crime

    10/26/2009 10:28:22 AM PDT · by onehitfrag · 30 replies · 1,434+ views
    Mail Online ^ | 10-26-09 | Andrew Levy
    After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian Pauline Howe wrote to the council to complain that the event had been allowed to go ahead. But instead of a simple acknowledgement, she received a letter warning her she might be guilty of a hate crime and that the matter had been passed to police. Two officers later turned up at the frightened grandmother's home and lectured her about her choice of words before telling her she would not be prosecuted Mrs Howe, 67, whose husband Peter is understood to be a Baptist minister, yesterday spoke of her shock at the...
  • Bureaucratic Boondoggle (Gardasil Proves Stumbling Block to Girl’s Immigration)

    10/21/2009 3:31:14 PM PDT · by NYer · 16 replies · 598+ views
    NC Register ^ | October 25, 2009 | Jeff Gardner
    PORT ST. JOE, Fla. — Seventeen-year-old Simone Davis of Port St. Joe, Fla., is like most teenage girls. She enjoys school and is active in her church’s youth group. But while her senior class peers at Port St. Joe High School fuss over which club to join or who will be elected homecoming queen, Davis is battling for her religious freedom and the right to stay in the country.Born in Colchester, England, she has lived in the U.S. for the last 10 years as a resident alien and recently applied for full U.S. citizenship. This summer the Bureau of Citizenship...
  • Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Says Teach Respect for Homosexuality in Kindergarten

    10/20/2009 3:37:36 AM PDT · by Man50D · 29 replies · 932+ views
    CNSNews.com ^ | October 20, 2009 | Fred Lucas
    The Obama administration’s safe schools czar, Kevin Jennings, has accused the Baptists, the Boy Scouts and sports fans of anti-gay bias, and he has advocated a special high school for gay teens as well as gay-straight alliance clubs for every high school in America. Jennings, who was a prominent homosexual activist before being named director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education, also has called for kindergarteners to be taught to respect all sexual orientations, while insisting that “ex-gay messages” and “Christian values” are ‘misused to isolate or denigrate lesbian, gay, bisexual...
  • Twiddling the knobs (evolution wrong: biological change more like turning knobs on complex machine)

    10/19/2009 9:39:38 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 36 replies · 950+ views
    Creation Magazine ^ | Don Batten, Ph.D.
    Complex machines often have lots of knobs provided for adjustment: think of a jumbo jet, a television set or a DVD player. With a radio set you can twiddle the knobs to tune a different station or increase the volume or adjust the tone. But you can twiddle the controls on your radio as much as you like, it won’t change into a TV set. The natural changes we see in living things are like twiddling the knobs on a complex machine: they can fine-tune the settings, but cannot create something completely new. For example, an enzyme in a bacterium...
  • Ancient Amber Discovery Contradicts Geologic Timescale

    10/19/2009 8:32:17 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 334 replies · 4,141+ views
    ICR News ^ | October 19, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.
    Newsweek magazine recently published a commentary by atheist Richard Dawkins containing some of his arguments against “creationists.” Therein he admitted, “What would be evidence against evolution, and very strong evidence at that, would be the discovery of even a single fossil in the wrong geological stratum.”[1] Out of place fossils are actually common, despite Dawkins’ claims regarding the “massive numbers” of fossils documenting evolutionary history. ICR News has reported on several over the last 12 months [2,3,4,5,6] and another one has surfaced recently...
  • Baptist Official Apologizes For Nazi Comparison

    10/16/2009 1:35:16 PM PDT · by markomalley · 13 replies · 278+ views
    WSB TV ^ | 10/16/2009
    ATLANTA -- A key Southern Baptist official has apologized for comparing proposals to overhaul the nation's health care system with Nazism. Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, also apologized for bestowing a "Josef Mengele Award" on President Barack Obama's chief health care adviser. He said in a letter dated Wednesday that he did not intend to "actually equate anyone in the Obama administration with Dr. Mengele." The Anti-Defamation League had criticized Land's remarks, calling them "inappropriate, insensitive and unjustified."
  • NJ city councilman: Sex was last thing on my mind

    10/15/2009 2:13:32 PM PDT · by llevrok · 24 replies · 1,891+ views
    Philly.Com ^ | 10/15/09 | WAYNE PARRY
    MAYS LANDING, N.J. - Eugene Robinson said sex was the last thing on his mind as he drove the pretty young woman who had asked for a ride to her motel. "I was waiting for God to send me the one that's supposed to be my Christian wife," he said. "That's what it says in the Bible." Yet within minutes of taking the woman to a cheap motel in neighboring Absecon, the 67-year-old Atlantic City Councilman and Baptist minister was receiving oral sex. "I was so surprised," he testified Wednesday in an Atlantic County courtroom. "I, um, hadn't really had...
  • One Baptist Church To Celebrate Halloween By Burning Bibles

    10/14/2009 12:34:30 PM PDT · by Between the Lines · 177 replies · 3,191+ views
    CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible. According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop,...
  • Baptist, Brethren, Lutheran, Methodist Churches Ask Senate for Abortion Funds

    10/02/2009 4:46:22 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 101 replies · 2,093+ views
    Life News ^ | 10/2/09 | Steven Ertelt
    Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A coalition of mainline Protestant churches have authored a letter to members of Congress asking them to make certain the health care bills they are considering contain taxpayer funding for abortions. The letter comes from a group of churches that have long advocated the pro-abortion position. Under the umbrella of the Religious Institute, the church denominations and more than 1,100 pastors and church staff from the denominations endorsed the letter. The letter calls abortion a “morally justifiable decision” and opposed any amendments to the House and Senate bills, which current contain massive abortion funding, to strike...
  • Church mixes politics, prayer on 'Obama Sunday'

    09/26/2009 10:22:59 AM PDT · by Coleus · 34 replies · 1,426+ views
    northjersey.com ^ | 09.20.09 | SHAWN BOBURG
    Prayer was mixed with a dose of politics at Passaic’s largest black church on Sunday as congregants donned Obama T-shirts in a show of support for a president they say has been unfairly criticized after only eight months in office. The Union Baptist Church held a “Support Obama Sunday,” asking members to “turn the script” on the “wicked and nasty” reaction Obama has received in some quarters as he pushes for health-care reform. The church’s pastor, Rev. Ronald W. Johnson, said he rarely brings politics into the church but was moved to do so because he is concerned that some...
  • A GREAT EXPLOSION OF PURITY IS ABOUT TO COME \O/ HALLELUJAH

    09/14/2009 4:51:57 PM PDT · by Jedediah · 24 replies · 1,216+ views
    The Joshua Chronicles ^ | Jesus the author and finisher
    A great explosion of purity is about to come , But "not" as before(as Katrina) ,something straight from my kingdom , The heavenlies are about to applaud , I AM The Lord behold I alone am God ! Yet for my children of my rod and staff , They shall rest in my bossom of Zion and laugh , For the Joy of The Lord is their strength , And these are my children of victiory that have gone the full length , Obedience to me has become their rod , My staff is their com(fort) for I AM their...
  • Survey Reveals Prevalence of (Protestant) Clergy Sexual Misconduct

    09/12/2009 6:44:04 AM PDT · by NYer · 142 replies · 1,834+ views
    Christian Post ^ | September 11, 2009 | Audrey Barrick
    Findings from a nationwide study reveal that clergy sexual misconduct is more prevalent than many people believe.According to research by Baylor University, 3.1 percent of adult women who attend religious services at least once a month have been victims of clergy sexual misconduct since turning 18. In other words, seven women in every congregation of 400 adults have been victimized.Ninety-two percent of the sexual advances were made in secret and 67 percent of the offenders were married to someone else at the time of the advance."Because many people are familiar with some of the high-profile cases of sexual misconduct, most...
  • An American founding father got saved

    09/04/2009 11:54:59 PM PDT · by BGHater · 30 replies · 1,239+ views
    Examiner ^ | 04 Sep 2009 | Steve Simms
    Robert Carter III of Virginia was one of the richest men in Revolutionary America. (He would have ranked near the top of the Forbes 400 List if they would have had one then.) He owned 16 plantations, 70,000 acres, numerous mansions, and several companies involved in shipping, manufacturing, and banking. He was the second largest slaveholder in Virginia owning almost 500 slaves. Robert's fortune had been handed down to him from his grandfather and then his father. His grandfather had been so rich and powerful in Virginia that he had been given the nickname King Carter. Robert was born in 1728....
  • THE CHURCH FATHERS: A DOOR TO ROME (fundamentalist warns saying they sound too Catholic)

    08/30/2009 2:03:16 PM PDT · by NYer · 317 replies · 3,282+ views
    Way of Life ^ | August 18, 2009
    Updated August 18, 2008 (first published June 4, 2008) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) - Many people have walked into the Roman Catholic Church through the broad door of the “church fathers,” and this is a loud warning today when there is a widespread attraction to the “church fathers” within evangelicalism. The Catholic apologetic ministries use the “church fathers” to prove that Rome’s doctrines go back to the earliest centuries. In...
  • Two by two: Missionaries teach the Word of God in Lufkin (TX) Mormon (OPEN)

    08/22/2009 8:42:42 AM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 100 replies · 1,617+ views
    The Lufkin Daily News ^ | August 15, 2009 | BRITTONY LUND
    Two by two: Missionaries teach the Word of God in Lufkin By BRITTONY LUNDThe Lufkin Daily NewsSaturday, August 15, 2009In his first week in Lufkin, LDS missionary Elder Josh Nielsen, 19, of Moses Lake, Washington, has had doors slammed in his face, people tell him he doesn't believe in the Bible and has rescued his companion missionary, Elder Sawyer Prestwich, 21, of Orem, Utah from getting punched.The Lufkin Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints welcomed four new missionaries to Lufkin this past week. Elder Justin Esplan, 19, of Nephi, Utah and Elder Matthew Bird, 21, of Wenatchee,...
  • Scholar says Baptists neglect lessons from Virgin Mary

    08/01/2009 1:51:11 PM PDT · by NYer · 442 replies · 4,000+ views
    ABP ^ | July 30, 2009 | Robert Marus
    EDE, Netherlands (ABP) -- A Latina theologian says overreaction to Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary has caused Baptists to miss important biblical teaching associated with the mother of Jesus. Nora Lozano Nora Lozano, associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Baptist University of the Americas, found potential liberation for women -- both Protestant and Catholic -- in Latin America and elsewhere by taking another look at the biblical story of Mary, Jesus' mother. Lozano, a participant in theological conversations between the Baptist World Alliance and the Vatican, made the remarks in a presentation to the BWA Commission on...
  • Jimmy Carter vs. Christianity

    07/21/2009 4:15:18 PM PDT · by NYer · 44 replies · 829+ views
    ncr ^ | July 21, 2009 | TOM MCFEELY
    Jimmy Carter has announced he is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention because of his opposition to the church’s attitude toward women. One can certainly empathize with Carter’s legitimate concerns about the mistreatment women endure in many societies. But he makes it clear he isn’t just taking issue with the Southern Baptists or their contemporary views on this issue; in the commentary he published July 15 in Australia’s The Age newspaper about his decision, he attacks other religions for their positions regarding the equality of women. And his article, titled “Losing My Religion for Equality,” also implicitly attacks the Catholic Church...
  • I Fall To My Knees (A Reflection on Eucharistic Adoration)

    07/15/2009 10:43:00 AM PDT · by NYer · 11 replies · 605+ views
    CE ^ | July 6, 2009 | Randy Hain
    In the True Presence of Christ, I fall to my knees. I am humbled to be so near Him in the form of the Eucharist.A feeling of peace and joy comes over me.I start to pray in earnest because our Lord hears our prayers.I offer Him my sincerest gratitude for the many blessings in my life.I ask His forgiveness for the sins I have committed.I promise our Lord that I will go to Reconciliation soon.I unburden myself to Him and share all of my stress and anxiety as He asked us to in the Gospel.I pray for others-family, friends,...
  • Baptist, Catholic Bodies Settle on 'Interchurch' Marriage

    07/05/2009 7:14:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 1 replies · 452+ views
    Christian Post ^ | 7/5/2009 | Ethan Cole
    After years of discussion, the Baptist and Roman Catholic bodies in Italy signed an agreement on “interchurch” marriage this week. The agreement, called “A Common Document for a Pastoral Approach to Marriages between Catholics and Baptists in Italy,” addresses issues encountered by such mixed church couples. In Italy, there are only about 6,400 Baptists who are members of one of the 116 churches of the Christian Evangelical Baptist Union of Italy (UCEBI). By comparison, more than 87 percent of Italy’s 60 million population identify themselves as Roman Catholic. “As the number of Baptists in Italy is very small, only in...
  • Marriage is a cultural thing (Wacked out preacher)

    07/03/2009 11:50:01 AM PDT · by AlaskaErik · 3 replies · 378+ views
    Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman ^ | July 2, 2008 | Howard Bess
    “Marriage is a cultural thing.” So began a very good sermon that I recently heard. My mind was set in rapid motion as I considered the raging arguments that are now taking place all over the country. What is marriage? How should we codify marriage in the laws of our land? The discussions become very sticky when our gay friends enter the debate and ask for equal treatment under the law. The exchanges become very heated when a participant demands that we turn to the Bible for answers that will once and for all settle the issues. Many well-meaning people...
  • Romoeroticism

    06/29/2009 1:48:43 PM PDT · by NYer · 11 replies · 650+ views
    ic ^ | June 29, 2009 | Eve Tushnet
    This year, just like last year, Gay Pride weekend coincided with the feast of Corpus Christi.   Washington, D.C.'s Pride parade was fairly restrained: It featured a cornucopia of Episcopalians, and all the marchers went out of their way to sweetly drape beads over the little elementary-school girls standing in front of me. There were Affirming Baptists; as the parade passed by me, a knot of gay men to my right joked -- in that gay way that is never really joking all the way down -- that maybe they could be Baptists again now. There were strollers, lots...
  • The Priesthood, Old and New (explained by a Baptist Sunday School and Bible study teacher)

    06/15/2009 1:42:58 PM PDT · by NYer · 187 replies · 2,864+ views
    Catholic Exchange ^ | June 15, 2009 | Sonja Corbitt
    As a Baptist Sunday School and Bible study teacher, one of the questions that used to nag at me incessantly was this: Why, after such painstaking deliberation in dictating an institutional religion that pleased Him in the Old Testament and that was designed to lead the people to recognize the Messiah when He came, would God then introduce a system in the New Testament Church that was so completely unlike the one He established in the Old? There are innumerable examples of how ridiculous this complete “change” would be, but take the priesthood, for instance.Priests were the officiators of worship...
  • A Closer Look At Stephen Covey And His 7 Habits -LDS- (OPEN)

    06/15/2009 10:22:41 AM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 27 replies · 857+ views
    A Closer Look At Stephen Covey And His 7 Habitsby Bill Gordon, Interfaith Witness Department Link Home Mission Board, SBCOne of the most popular personal development training programs today is The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. Many church and religious organizations are using this program to train ministers and leaders. One of the reasons they find this program attractive is because it gives a prominent place to spirituality in personal growth. However, most of those who take this training are unaware of the specific religious beliefs that are behind many of Covey’s principles.Covey has...
  • Obama more than tolerant of homosexual lifestyle

    06/06/2009 7:33:22 AM PDT · by GonzoII · 36 replies · 2,202+ views
    One News Now ^ | 6/5/2009 | Allie Martin
    A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention says President Barack Obama's recent proclamation designating a homosexual "pride" month goes beyond mere tolerance. ...snip "The United States federal government, now by executive order, signed by the President of the United States, is declaring national pride in these lifestyles," he contends. "This is not mere toleration; it's not calling for legalization, an end to criminal sanctions. It's not calling even for something like civil unions...it's calling for pride."
  • Pastor proposes SBC resolution celebrating Obama's election

    06/04/2009 7:18:04 PM PDT · by markomalley · 29 replies · 961+ views
    Associated Baptist Press ^ | 6/4/2009 | Bob Allen
    RLINGTON, Texas (ABP) -- A prominent African-American pastor is urging the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution celebrating the election of President Obama when the denomination meets June 23-24 in Louisville, Ky. A resolution submitted for consideration by Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, acknowledges policy differences with Obama, but terms election of America's first African-American president "a tremendous moment in our nation's history." McKissic's resolution, referred to a committee that will decide whether to bring any or all of it to the convention floor, "celebrates the historic nature of the election of President Barack...
  • The Southern Baptist Convention is Finally 'Throwing in the Towel' on Government Schools

    06/02/2009 7:28:14 AM PDT · by achilles2000 · 123 replies · 2,812+ views
    Exodus Mandate via Christian Newswire ^ | June 2, 2009 | Exodus Mandate
    The Southern Baptist Convention is Finally 'Throwing in the Towel' on Government Schools President and Executive Director of the SBC Executive Committee Proposes Major Expansion of Christian Schools by Churches COLUMBIA, SC, June 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- In 2004 Brig. Gen. T.C. Pinckney, USAF Ret. and former 2nd Vice President of the SBC, and Dr. Bruce Shortt, Houston attorney, opened a debate over education by submitting a resolution to the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention urging Baptists to remove their children from government schools and, instead, give them a Christian education. Although the Pinckney/Shortt Resolution was met with...
  • Pastor Says: 'I Saw Catholics Arrested for Being Catholic at a Catholic University' -- Notre Dame

    05/15/2009 12:14:46 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 213 replies · 4,744+ views
    Christian Newswire ^ | 5/15/09 | Christian Newswire
    Contact: Catherine Rouse, Vision America, 936-560-3900, Catherine@visionamerica.usSOUTH BEND, Ind., May 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- Vision America President Pastor Rick Scarborough said he was sickened by what he saw when those protesting Obama's speech at Notre Dame were arrested on the campus. "I wept when I saw my friends arrested and taken to jail," Scarborough disclosed. "They almost broke the arm of a priest who appeared to be in his 80s, by dragging him on the ground." Scarborough, who's a Southern Baptist preacher, said he was in South Bend in solidarity with Catholics who are protesting the upcoming commencement speech at...
  • Baptists Begin Process of Throwing In The Towel on Government Schools

    05/12/2009 6:26:28 PM PDT · by achilles2000 · 45 replies · 1,396+ views
    Morrischapman.com ^ | May 5, 2009 | Morris Chapman
    ...But in celebrating accomplishments like these [the SBC's success in creating colleges and universities], I now wonder if our focus in the evangelical community should shift at least in part from training our children during the transition to adulthood to placing greater emphasis on training up a child in the way he should go. I'm not advocating the neglect of what we have already established in higher education, but simply a course correction in an area that seems to have suffered neglect -- the protection and nurturing of the spiritual health and growth of children and adolescents. In far too...
  • (Prayer thread) Aunt passed away from brain tumors

    05/03/2009 12:53:29 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 26 replies · 727+ views
    May 3, 2009 | 2ndDivisionVet
    My Aunt Violet Alexander passed away Friday. She was a giver, a good Christian, mother of three boys (all adults now) grandmother, and a long-time babysitter in her community. She even provided daycare to the members of the famous rock group "Slipknot" when they were tikes. A very good country cook, a warm, "diamond in the rough" type person, she was really there for me when my dad passed away in 2002. Our family and Des Moines has lost a good woman. We will miss her.
  • A History of the Baptists - Preface (Ecumenical)

    04/27/2009 10:06:50 AM PDT · by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus · 35 replies · 969+ views
    Providence Baptist Ministries ^ | 1919 | John T. Christian
    In attempting to write a history of the Baptists no one is more aware of the embarrassments surrounding the subject than the author. These embarrassments arise from many sources. We are far removed from many of the circumstances under survey; the representations of the Baptists were often made by enemies who did not scruple, when such a course suited their purpose, to blacken character; and hence the testimony from such sources must be received with discrimination and much allowance made for many statements; in some instances vigilant and sustained attempts were made to destroy every document relating to these people;...
  • Carter asks for unity from fellow Baptists [barf alert]

    04/26/2009 2:46:58 AM PDT · by Slings and Arrows · 29 replies · 2,045+ views
    WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Former President Jimmy Carter implored fellow Baptists on Saturday to look beyond a range of doctrinal disputes that have split the denomination, and urged them to focus on reconciling under a common cause. Expanding the focus of a Baptist alliance he helped found, Carter said disagreements over many issues, including abortion, homosexuality and the role of women in the church, have divided Baptists and hampered the denomination.
  • COMPUTER EXPERTS, REFUGEES, MARATHON RUNNERS, WIDOWERS –NEW U.S. PRIESTS MIRROR AMERICA

    04/20/2009 11:23:40 AM PDT · by NYer · 10 replies · 725+ views
    USCCB ^ | April 20, 2009
    WASHINGTON—The ordination Class of 2009, with computer experts, refugees, marathon runners and second-career men, mirrors the United States today.  The men from dioceses nationwide show that the call to serve God is heard at all ages. Respondents include attorneys, financiers, teachers and farmers.             Justin Minh Nguyen, of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, a skilled tailor, was a refugee from Vietnam. He was a parishioner of the only Vietnamese parish in Austin and is one of five men to be ordained for the diocese. Quy Vo, a refugee from the Philippines, is being ordained for the Diocese of Albany, New...
  • EWTN - The Journey Home - April 20 - Msgr. Keith Barltrop, former Baptist

    04/20/2009 9:12:51 AM PDT · by NYer · 13 replies · 881+ views
    April 20Msgr. Keith Barltropformer Baptist CONVERSION STORY - August 2004 I was brought up in a very strong faith environment where I was taught bible stories from an early age and where personal commitment was taken so seriously that I wasn’t even allowed to be baptised until I was old enough to decide for myself, at fourteen. Not long after this I began to experience severe doubts as to whether God existed, was the bible true, had I really made a true commitment to Jesus , etc. At the time I found this very uncomfortable, and thought it was...
  • Obama to attend D.C. church for Easter

    04/09/2009 6:06:52 PM PDT · by Red Steel · 58 replies · 1,785+ views
    Politico ^ | April 9, 2009 8:42 PM EDT | NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON
    Come Easter Sunday, President Barack Obama will attend a local church for the first time since taking office, but aides say that won’t necessarily be the church he and his family join. The White House wouldn’t say where Obama will be on Sunday – but did say that the Obamas search for a more lasting spiritual home in the capital has been going on for some time. Friends have been quietly checking out churches in the Washington, D.C., area to see which might be a good fit for the family, one aide familiar with the process said. That reflects in...
  • Newt Gingrich on his conversion to Catholicism

    04/05/2009 4:11:27 PM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 249 replies · 4,559+ views
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | April 5, 2009 | Jim Galloway
    Congressional Quarterly has posted a transcript of “Fox News Sunday,” including this exchange between Chris Wallace and Newt Gingrich about the former House speaker’s conversion to Catholicism: WALLACE: Mr. Gingrich, you have been a Baptist most of your life, and last Sunday you converted to Catholicism. Why, sir? GINGRICH: I’m not talking about this much publicly, but let me just say that I found over the course of the last decade, attending the basilica, meeting with Monsignor Rossi, reading the literature, that there was a peace in my soul and a sense of well being in the Catholic Church, and...
  • Churches use movie as teaching tool (Fireproof is Highest grossing Independent Film of 2008)

    03/31/2009 1:58:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies · 1,295+ views
    News-Journal.com ^ | 3/30/2009 | GLENN EVANS
    LONGVIEW — A movie that's being praised as a salvation for relationships drew more than 200 viewers Sunday to First Baptist Church. "I hope that my son gleans something from this," John Jones said, seated in the downtown church's education center next to his son, Jason, and wife, Donna. "We're very grounded, my wife and I. And, with all you see on TV and so forth, this (movie) may allow him to see something that he wouldn't otherwise see on TV — values, commitment, honoring your commitment, honoring your word." The movie is "Fireproof" (2008 Provident Films), its title a...
  • Porn, an old moral threat, finds new ways to worry pastors

    03/22/2009 3:28:08 AM PDT · by GonzoII · 33 replies · 1,508+ views
    STL Today.com ^ | 03/20/2009 | Tim Townsend
    One week from today, the star of "Luau Orgy," "Gazongas" and the ahead-of-its-time "Wanda Whips Wall Street" will walk onto the campus of Truman State University in Kirksville to debate a pastor on the subject most dear to his heart: porn. It will fall to the Rev. Craig Gross to rebut actor Ron Jeremy's arguments that pornography is a harmless activity that most people pursue in the privacy of their own homes. "If Ron was right, I wouldn't have a job," said Gross, founder of XXXChurch.com — a Christian website dedicated to battling pornography. "Porn rips apart homes and families."...
  • Slain pastor's wife: `I refuse to let Satan win'

    03/15/2009 2:41:08 AM PDT · by GonzoII · 17 replies · 829+ views
    AP via Google ^ | JIM SUHR
    MARYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The widow of a pastor killed in mid-sermon urged mourners to reject hate and to take comfort in their faith at his funeral Friday, in the church where he was gunned down five days earlier. "On Sunday, my husband didn't die. He simply got a promotion," Cindy Winters said. She raised a hand to the sky as the "Movin' on Up" theme from "The Jeffersons" blared from the loudspeakers and the standing-room-only crowd rose to its feet at First Baptist Church in this St. Louis suburb. Fred Winters was eulogized as a coupon-clipping brainiac who never...
  • 5 shot at Illinois church, police say

    03/08/2009 9:10:56 AM PDT · by armymarinemom · 181 replies · 10,161+ views
    CNN ^ | 3/08/09 | cnn
    (CNN) -- Five people, including a church pastor, were shot inside the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, a police dispatcher told CNN on Sunday. The shooting occurred during a church service, the dispatcher said. The suspect was stabbed by parishioners who wrestled him to the ground.
  • A Message About Today’s Loss (Church's response to FBC Maryville shooting)

    03/08/2009 4:31:39 PM PDT · by Blogger · 13 replies · 1,278+ views
    http://www.fbmaryville.org/ ^ | 3-8-09 | Pastor Mark Jones
    A Message About Today’s Loss Today, a little after our 8:15 service began, a man entered First Baptist Church and fired several gunshots at our Senior Pastor, Dr. Fred Winters. Pastor Winters was taken to the hospital but died of his wounds. Please pray for Dr. Winter’s family, our two brave members who were injured when they stopped the assailant, for the assailant himself and his family, and for our church members as they deal with this tragic loss. In this day, where uncertainty seems to abound creating an environment in which people are vulnerable in doing things they might...
  • Other Christians embrace Lent: "We are reclaiming a sense of history"

    02/25/2009 11:27:24 AM PST · by NYer · 24 replies · 4,890+ views
    Deacon's Bench ^ | February 24, 2009 | Deacon Greg Kandra
    As we get ready for another Ash Wednesday, and another 40-day sojourn into the desert, the Arkansas Catholic has this intriguing item reminding us that Lent is not just a Catholic thing anymore: Beginning Ash Wednesday, Catholics enter the 40-day penitential season of Lent, but they are not the only Christians to do so. In fact, a growing number of Christian denominations are incorporating Lenten observances into their Christian experience. "In some denominations we are reclaiming a sense of history," Dr. Jane Harris, professor of American religion at Hendrix College in Conway, said. "We can still be Protestant yet claim...
  • The River Bible Study 2009 (Youtube)Second Baptist Church Houston, Tx(Funny Stuff)

    02/25/2009 7:45:59 AM PST · by texmexis best · 7 replies · 761+ views
    Second Baptist Church, Katy, TX ^ | 02/15/09 | The River Communications Team
    A Bible Study Youtube for those with a funny bone. Lavishly produced with a cast of thousands...okay, about 20 people were involved...we had a tight budget....'kay, we didn't really have a budget. Enjoy and come to our Bible Study at Second Baptist - Katy, Room 331 at 9:30 AM every Sunday. You'll love it. Lots of creative types and we have all types and ages. Married, single, aged 9 to 100.
  • Church fire an act of arson, officials say

    02/24/2009 10:51:20 AM PST · by chuck_the_tv_out · 9 replies · 627+ views
    Boston Gliar ^ | February 24, 2009 | Maria Cramer
    Early Saturday morning, someone crept into the New Fellowship Baptist Church, walked past thousands of dollars worth of audio equipment and computers and set fire to the balcony and altar, then fled as the Dorchester building went up in flames, fire officials and the church's pastor said yesterday.
  • Undercover missions can't justify breaking laws

    01/31/2009 10:30:22 AM PST · by Between the Lines · 18 replies · 862+ views
    Baylor University Lariat ^ | Jan. 28, 2009 | Liz Foreman
    Undercover missions are an irresponsible means to spread Christianity. This type of mission work has created an ethical quandary that evangelicals are at a loss to justify. While the mission of seeking out unsaved souls is an admirable one, it is dangerous to do so in a country where Christian evangelism is illegal. When a missionary goes to work in one of these places, they not only endanger themselves, but converts as well. In the summer of 2007, China expelled more than 100 missionaries in a secret operation that was the largest expulsion campaign of foreign missionaries in over half...
  • New survey shows Protestants’ loyalty flagging

    01/15/2009 9:50:50 AM PST · by NYer · 269 replies · 2,067+ views
    CNA ^ | January 15, 2009
    Phoenix, Jan 14, 2009 / 11:42 pm (CNA).- A new survey of denominational loyalty reports that churchgoing Catholics are significantly less likely than churchgoing Protestants to change denominations.Six out of ten active Catholics would only consider attending a Catholic church, while about 30 percent would prefer attending a Catholic church but would consider others, the survey says. Eleven percent of churchgoing Catholics reportedly do not show a specific preference for attending a Catholic church.By contrast, only 16 percent of Protestant churchgoers will only consider attending a church of their present denomination. About 51 percent express a preference for one...
  • Billy Graham moves membership from First Baptist Dallas to South Carolina church

    01/02/2009 9:06:32 PM PST · by PAR35 · 14 replies · 920+ views
    Dallas Morning News ^ | December 29, 2008 | SAM HODGES
    For more than half a century, the First Baptist Church of Dallas could claim among its members one of the most famous of Christians – the Rev. Billy Graham. But that distinction has ended with the 90-year-old evangelist's decision to join the First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, S.C., which is much nearer his home in Montreat, N.C. -snip- Members of First Baptist Spartanburg voted him in on Sunday. -snip-
  • Ada preacher charged with molesting young boys

    12/25/2008 8:00:13 AM PST · by CE2949BB · 57 replies · 2,823+ views
    NewsOK ^ | December 24, 2008 | Johnny Johnson
    Ada — A Baptist preacher told the Pontotoc County undersheriff he did not know why he had been molesting two young boys for several months, but it might have something to do with his numerous blood pressure medications.
  • Are You Sure You Like Spurgeon?

    12/24/2008 10:47:15 AM PST · by Gamecock · 6 replies · 649+ views
    CampOnThis ^ | Alan Maben
    "The doctrine of justification itself, as preached by an Arminian, is nothing but the doctrine of salvation by works..." -C.H. Spurgeon Praised by many evangelicals as a great preacher, Charles H. Spurgeon is considered a successful and "safe" example of a "non-theological" ministry. His works are recommended as a means to lead many aspiring pastors into developing their own successful ministries. His Lectures to My Students are often used for this purpose, emphasizing the "practical" aspects of evangelism. But while the form of Spurgeon's successful preaching is often studied by would-be pastors, the content of this Christian giant's preaching and...
  • We Have a Warren for Your Address! Is Rick Barack's Correct Invo Pick? [Catholic Caucus]

    12/19/2008 11:10:02 AM PST · by mlizzy · 5 replies · 580+ views
    Fighting Irish Thomas ^ | 12-19-08 | Tom O'Toole
    On the surface, something about Barack Obama picking Rick Warren to give his inauguration invocation seemed fishy. I mean, Warren was the man responsible for one of Obama's few (and perhaps biggest) campaign faux pas, when he made Barack look silly last summer trying to answer the question "When does life begin?" But then I realized that Barack, brilliant politician that he is, was using his special reverse "If I can't beat him, join ME!" psychology, already duping Warren and many of his on-the-surface Christians into his camp for the next election. However, while I predict this pick for Obama...