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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--It's a drill that has been repeated time and time again at the offices of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and this time, as every time before, the agency's president, Richard Land, is right in the thick of it.
HOLLYWOOD (BP)--One strain of contemporary music has been virulently anti-Christian for several years, with Marilyn Manson standing up attacking Christians and ripping out pages of the Bible. Experts trace this rebellion to Aleister Crowley, one of the fathers of modern Satanism, whose "do what thou wilt" and "sex is a…
HOLLYWOOD (BP)--"Bubble Boy" has touched a nerve. The movie from The Walt Disney Company's Touchstone Productions is being called "a travesty" by the mother of the true-to-life "boy in the bubble" who died in 1984 at the age of 12.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A mother's story about her "bubble girl" is among the resources about Severe Combined Immune Deficiency posted on the Internet by various parents whose children are battling, or have died from, SCID or other immune deficiency diseases. Sara Hagemeyer writes of her…
PHILADELPHIA (BP)--Hours after the killing of 15 Israelis in a Jerusalem restaurant on Aug. 9, the brother of the 23-year-old suicide bomber delightedly announced that "This is a unique operation for its quality and success. ... Palestinians everywhere can now hold up their heads."
PLAINVIEW, Texas (BP)--It wasn't a matter of breaking new ground or setting a precedent. It wasn't about who was right or wrong.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (BP)--The Motion Picture Code was established in the 1930s by the Legion of Decency, a group consisting of, among others, church leaders. Not only was the amount of sexuality regulated, but profane and obscene language was forbidden in films. A respect had to be shown for any…
KENNER, La. (BP)--It was the Fourth of July, a holiday for most people, but as pastor of a Baptist church in my Mississippi town, I was in the car headed for the local hospitals to make my rounds, when I turned the car radio to a political rally being held…
"Diversity in artists, worship and people last through 18 years of the Cornerstone Festival."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Several Southern Baptist songwriters and musicians found themselves in the warm spotlight of the Dove Awards, winning accolades for their ministry performances during the 2001 season.
