Issues beginning February 1, 2008. Click on the Issue you wish to read:
July 24, 2008: Baylor pres. removed for failure to 'unite Baylor family'; BWA meeting in Prague begins; Pastors' biggest challenges vary by region; 4th Circuit upholds 'non-sectarian' prayers; ABC-affiliated univ.names banker new pres.; CBF ministry to internationals takes place at home, abroad
July 15, 2008: ABC-USA to focus on mission, churches; Prosecutor asks genocide charge against al-Bashir; China increasing persecution of Christians; Where have all the good men gone? Opinion: what the church can learn from inmates
July 10, 2008: Carson-Newman names president; Declaration responds to torture policy shift; Daniel Vestal counters BP column that CBF not 'truly Christian'; John Templeton dies; Baptist student missionary dies in Peru accident; Economy affects churches in ways other than giving;
July 8, 2008: Helms steeped in moderate Baptist life; Third-World faith: Christianity shifts to 'Global South'; Third-World faith: Church tells story of Jesus to Sudanese; 'Dear Jane' letters a problem for military spouses; Tips for supporting military families through divorce
July 3, 2008: Jesus in MySpace: Churches use social-networking sites; Felice Gaer to serve as chair of religious-freedom panel; Opinion: God, country, and the 4th of July
July 1, 2008: Re: faith-based programs, Obama says save best, dith rest; CBF worker furthers education for children in Ethiopian town; Michael Clyburn assumes helm at Alderson-Broaddus College; Opinion: Hearing the full story
June 27, 2008: Dobson confused about Obama speech; Name connects East Texas church with Middle Eastern Christians; Opinion: America's moral center says 'no' to torture
June 25, 2008: Survey suggests most evangelicals tolerant; Young CBFers want end to anti-SBC rhetoric; Love & Marriage (3 stories); Defending minorities very Baptist; BTSR names dean; OBU trustees name social science school
June 20, 2008: CBF General Assembly begins; Civil rights struggle continues; Mission projects precede CBF Gen. Assem. in Memphis; Civil rights leader garners Whitsitt Courage Award; Women's wrestling at Mo. Bapt. Univ.
June 18, 2008: Alma Hunt, missions advocate, dies at 98; Troubled Texas WMU seeks healing; Opinion: Lawley's Chapel and the communion of saints
June 13, 2008: IMB Supporters release statement opposing missionary guidelines; Polygamist sect's children sign, write poems to thank Baptists; Ouachita U. falls in College World Series; Opinion: Obama's historic breakthrough
June 11, 2008: Establishment candidate Hunt wins SBC presidenty; SBC officials reject idea of sex-offender database; SBC business items; Baptists to have place to worhip , baptize near Jordan River; Volunteers in missions
June 6, 2008: IMB Supporters release statement opposing missionary guidelines; Polygamist sect's children sign, write poems to thank Baptists; Ouachita U. falls in College World Series; Opinion: Obama's historic breakthrough
June 3, 2008: Obama departure from Trinity garners concern, criticism; Sect's children begin leaving Baptist caregiver's custody; CBF Gen. Assembly devotes prayer time to discerning way; Opinion: Politics and the power of the Cross
May 22, 2008: IRS Clears Church of Christ; McCaion rejects Hagee's endorsement; Tex. court rules for LDS group; Appeals court again rules against Va partial birth ban; Samaritan's Purse assists survivors; IMB director resigns
May 20, 2008: Baylor pres's future in doubt; Drake cleared in IRS probe; Baptists respond in China, Myanmar; Minister caught in sex sting; American Baptists to battle global food crisis; Brit. Baptists to go to Jamaica
May 16, 2008: Baptists and others in China; SBC candidates; Gay marriage approved by state court ruling; Evangelical Manifesto praised and criticized; CBF partnership with Ghana; Universities rank high in survey; Southern gospel legend Dottioe Rambo dies; Opinion; Christians' attention to foreign policy long overdue
May 13, 2008: Baptists help with tornado damage; 3 articles on blogging; CBF to commission 18 missionaries; Longtime Baptist musician and seminary professor dies
May 12, 2008: Baptists mobilizing to aid Burmese; Two Rivers Baptist reverses vote, ousts dissidents; FLDS children praise Baptist agency; Mix of politics, religion; Faith-in-schools debate; Iowa church, CBF commit to S.D. Indian reservation
May 8, 2008: In Indiana & NC, Obama cut into Clinton's Catholic lead; Iraq divides panel on religious freedom; Speakers tell British Baptists: fight global warming, poverty; Opinion; How are Christians accountable to each other?
May 6, 2008: Crowded SBC pres. field grows by 2; 'Manifesto' rebukes evangelicals for becoming pawns; Half of SBC churches could die in 22 years; Nashville church fails to oust dissidents; Vestal says Christ identifies with poor; Opinion: Howe real is the Resurrection?
May 1, 2008: Congressional Black Caucus honors Georgetown College; CBF partnering with churches in Caribbean; Tiny N.Y. church does outsized ministry; Opinion: On homosexuality, whose narrative do we believe?
April 29, 2008: Jeremiah Wright gives feisty defense; Three articles on Calvinism
April 25, 2008: Obama's pastor in first TV interview; Christian credit union pledges funds to support ABC workers, Thai villages; Baptis communicators big winners in ecumenical awards; 'God is still in control' despite tornado, pastor says
April 23, 2008: Catholics and other religious voters propelled Clinton in Pa.; Olive wood in microenterprise; Opinion: Our theology of ecology should place us within creation
April 22, 2008: Rival Mo. conservative groups agree to 'peace committee'; N.C. college receives donation of 1686 Luther Bible translation; Sudanese Baptists reunite after years-long division; Opinion: Discipleship and the 'outside world'
April 18, 2008: Pope visits U.S.; Texas church loses pastor; ABP honors Texas convention, announces $100,000 challenge; S. Ct. decision means executions can proceed; Opinon: Democrats and abortion
April 15, 2008: Texas board recommends budget cuts; Churches often borrow from business world; Best church and business leaders have some similar qualities; Mo. convention to appeal ruling
April 10, 2008: BTSR budget shortfall leads to layoffs; Organization to minister to Caribbean 'diaspora'; Samford scholarship program for ministers-in-training; Detroit pastor to deliver 2008 Shurden lectures; Opinion: is Jesus really our Lord?
April 8, 2008: McCain's Faith; Alliance leaders approve consultant; Historic Wis. church destroyed in gas explosion
April 1, 2008: Sup. Ct. to hear case on 10 Commandments; Fundamentalism & violence; Fundamentalism & militancy; Mo. Baptist Convetion faces countersuit; Chaplain uses cookies to reach out
March 28, 2008: Celebrity cast turns focus on church-state issues; No cancer found in Mohler surgery; Opinion: On homosexuality, can we at least talk about it?
March 26, 2008: New Covenant leaders OK repeat but no structure; Baptist pastor in Azerjaiban released; ABC donates $100 to CBF Katrina relief; Churches and gas buy-downs; Church plant models peace in Brooklyn; Opinion: Are we there yet?
March 19, 2008: Pastor's role in Obama campaign spotlights race, pulpit freedom; Jim Smith head of CBF global missions field teams; British Baptist leader to head U.S. seminary; Opinion: The utilitarian temptation
March 17, 2008: IRS investigates Obama's church; Minister faces molestation charges; Nabors resigns as BGCT financial officer; IABCU taps educator for top post
March 13, 2008: Is religious right dead or part of new center? Will Baptists be among the evangelical center? Bangladesh church leader wins BWA award; Musings on a new SBC declaration on climate change
March 11, 2008: Southern Baptists divide on climate change; Evangelicals diverse in Ohio vote; Broadway Baptists votes to keep pastor; Ethicist describes global warming skepticism; Caracas crusade; Opinion: Unity in the church at the expense of truth
March 6, 2008: Kidnap victims dead in Afghanistan; Catholice and others denounce McCain for courting Hagee
March 3, 2008: Obama speech spurs IRS investigation of UCC; How should churches structure leader groups? Abstinence compromise means Aids relif bill back on track; Opinion: The deeper wellsprings of centrist evangelicalism