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By Bob Allen
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (ABP) -- The organizers of a five-day Christian music festival that kicks off July 7 in Wisconsin are being criticized by some conservatives for inviting progressive evangelical activist Jim Wallis to speak. |
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By Robert Dilday
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Friday, July 02, 2010 |
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RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) -- Responding to disasters with immediate and long-term assistance has become a well-established practice of American religious groups -- including Baptists, who frequently are almost as visible following devastating earthquakes and hurricanes as the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross. But government dependence on these disaster-relief ministries mean church-state lines can become blurred when disaster strikes. |
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Friday, July 02, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Since colonial days, each new generation of
Americans has had to face new challenges to religious freedom.
From dissenters like Roger Williams fighting established state
churches to perceived threats to the Protestant establishment posed by
Catholic immigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the culture
wars over religion that ensued from Supreme Court decisions on school
prayer and evolution to the post-9/11 fear of Islam, new issues and
controversies arise that touch on that most distinctive of American --
and Baptist -- principles.
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Friday, July 02, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- One characteristic of the robust religious freedom
Americans enjoy is that the government doesn’t control the church nor
the church the government. But that doesn’t mean churches are lawless
zones.
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Friday, July 02, 2010 |
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DALLAS (ABP) -- Religious liberty is a Baptist birthright, and one of
the tradition’s most distinctive principles. But challenges to
maintaining religious liberty come from all directions -- including the
dilemma of whether Baptist social-service agencies should accept
government funds to perform their ministries.
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