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By Benjamin Cole
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Monday, April 27, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- Can anything good come out of Mexico?
That’s the central question in the minds of millions of Americans who have favored protectionism over of free trade, gun-toting Minutemen at the border instead of substantive immigration reform and a largely ineffective and draconian system of laws that criminalize cannabis instead of having a serious conversation about the terrible legacy of America’s so-called War on Drugs. |
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By Benjamin Cole and Marty Duren
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- Hardball Religion is the personal story of Oklahoma pastor Wade Burleson and the two tumultuous years he served as a trustee of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Subtitled Feeling the Fury of Fundamentalism, Burleson’s story recounts the response of trustee leadership to his efforts in opposition to two new personnel guidelines regarding valid forms of baptism for missionary candidates and the habits of their private prayer lives.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- One of the unfortunate realities about being Baptist is that you seldom understand or observe the Christian festival calendar. In fact, many who are reading this column will not know what a "festival calendar" is. For most Baptists, a festival is one of those anti-Halloween parties that churches throw to get the little gremlins and goblins to the Family Life Center for apple-bobbing and beanbag-tossing.
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By Jonathan Lindsey
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Monday, April 06, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- In this 400th-anniversary year of Baptist history it’s time for Baptists to take the lead -- and invite other ecclesiastical bodies to join them -- in removing one of the final vestiges of theocracy in the United States. From the earliest days of the settlement of this country by Europeans, the theocratic practice of clergy functioning as civil officials has been practiced notably in the performance of marriage ceremonies.
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By Benjamin Cole
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
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(ABP) -- In late February, David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch co-authored a provocative op-ed in the New York Times, titled “A Reconciliation on Gay Marriage.” In the piece, Blankenhorn, the conservative president of the Institute for American Values, and Rauch, an openly gay scholar at The Brookings Institution and a staunch advocate of same-sex marriage, sought to forge a political compromise to move the contentious debate “onto a healthier, calmer track.”
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