The Northern Baptist Convention? As the Southern Baptist Convention faces declining membership and baptism numbers, a task force has drafted a resurgence plan.
Northern exposure for Southern Baptists
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An evolving story or not?
Bruce Waltke’s resignation from Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando set off a mini debate in the blogging world after he made remarks in a BioLogos Foundation video related to a paper endorsing the acceptance of evolution. ABC (video on the right) has picked up the news and run with an embarrassingly simplistic story.
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Covering religious rights on campus
Back in 2004, a Christian student group was denied recognition at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law because it required its officers and voting members to uphold certain Christian teachings. The school said that the group couldn’t discriminate on the basis of religious belief.
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Ghost? In hospital visitation rights story?
As is often the case, the mainstream press was handed a fascinating church-state separation case today and didn’t seem to realize it. Here’s the top of the A1 report in the Washington Post:
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God in the gaps
I was reading this CBS/Associated Press story about a missing 11-year-old girl from central Florida being found alive, four days after she disappeared in swamplands near her home. And there was religion all over the place. People were talking about miracles. The guy who found her went to the same church as her parents. But we never learn what church it is. It’s just weird.
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Westboro vs. Southern Baptists lefties
Back in my Colorado journalism days, I attended a national conference that drew a wide variety of people who backed the ordination of women. As I walked around the campground scribbling notes (often with a sharp journalist named Douglas LeBlanc), I became aware of just how much diversity was present in that body of believers.
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Trashing 19 centuries of doctrine?
Whenever I get on my high horse about the ways in which mainstream journalists abuse the term “fundamentalist,” I always urge journalists to simply allow religious believers to describe their beliefs. It is also fair game, of course, to describe the people’s actions in the public square, then ask them to explain how their beliefs shape those actions.
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Rites and wrongs
Yesterday I looked at a couple of stories covering President Barack Obama’s visit to a Southeast Washington church for Easter services. Reader Peggy noted in the comments:
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What's Easter about, anyway?
My family returned to Baltimore last night after celebrating a joyful Pascha (that’s Easter in the ancient churches of the East) at a church in Salem, Mass., with family and soon-to-be family.
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