Friday, May 10, 2013 Theology
Obsessed with the End

Obsessed with the End

Just because Jesus told his disciples God alone knows when he will return, that hasn’t prevented 2,000 years of Christian speculation.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Theology
Author proposes end to interfaith hostility

Author proposes end to interfaith hostility

Would the founders of the world’s major religions have treated one another differently than how their followers treat one another?

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Theology

Baptists, Muslims meet for dialogue

Central Baptist Theological Seminary co-sponsored the last of three Baptist-Muslim dialogue events held by schools with ties to American Baptist Churches USA. The goal of the meetings was to create an atmosphere where the two faith communities can live in peace and promote common good in American society and the broader world.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Theology

Muslim students meet Baptist hospitality

 A Virginia Baptist pastor describes his church's opportunity to host Muslim students for a spring break service project a "Kingdom moment."

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Monday, April 22, 2013 Theology

Ky. Baptists probe professor’s dismissal

Reports that professors at Campbellsville University teach evolution and reject biblical inerrancy have drawn scrutiny from Kentucky Baptist leaders.

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Friday, April 19, 2013 History

Branch Davidian impact felt after 20 years

While neighbors in nearby West, Texas, reeled from a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, scholars gathered in Waco to discuss the lasting impact of the siege and raid on the Branch Davidian compound 20 years ago.

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Monday, April 8, 2013 Missions
A Texas Baptist Men member shows a man how to set up a water filter system during a mission trip to the Amazon. (TBM photo)
A Texas Baptist Men member shows a man how to set up a water filter system during a mission trip to the Amazon. (TBM photo)

Mission needs benefit public health

Missions-driven advances in water filtration and other technologies are having an impact beyond church planting.

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Friday, March 22, 2013 Theology
Christ's humanity often shortchanged

Christ's humanity often shortchanged

Even though the humanity of Christ is a core tenet of the Christian faith, many believers tend to view Jesus as wholly divine.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 Theology

SBC leader denounces papacy

Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler says papal authority is “anathema” to evangelical beliefs.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013 Theology
Jeph Holloway, a professor at East Texas Baptist University, spoke on the practice of Christian moral discernment at the Currie-Strickland Distinguished Lectures in Christian Ethics at Howard Payne University.
Jeph Holloway, a professor at East Texas Baptist University, spoke on the practice of Christian moral discernment at the Currie-Strickland Distinguished Lectures in Christian Ethics at Howard Payne University.

Prof says ethics more than moral choice

Christians err when they treat decision-making — rather than spiritual formation and character — as central to ethics, theologian and ethicist Jeph Holloway said in a recent lecture series.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Theology

Critic says SBC leaders enabling sin

Instead of promoting an embattled Calvinist leader, a former supporter says evangelical leaders should be confronting him about his sin.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013 Theology

Passport offers online Lenten series

Established in 1993, Passport is a national, nonprofit student ministry that also offers a year-round devotion site.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Missions

ABC appoints Burmese missionaries

The home-missions arm of American Baptist Churches USA has named its first two national missionaries to minister to thousands of refugees who have fled civil war in Myanmar to settle in the United States.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Theology

Study says faith, science not at odds

A new study attributes the so-called “belief” gap between evolution and young-earth creationism to a small fundamentalist minority of faith groups who are openly opposed to science.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 History

University recalls Baptist roots

George Washington University, a private institution of higher learning in Washington, D.C., got its start as Columbian College, founded by Baptist leaders including missionary Luther Rice.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Missions

Latvian Baptists plant churches

Baptists in Latvia are turning to missional church-planting strategies to reach unchurched people in a highly secular culture formerly occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.

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Monday, February 4, 2013 Missions

'Fresh expressions’ of church in NC

An increasingly secular culture demands more than one way of “doing” church, leaders of a missional church movement told a sell-out crowd in Greensboro, N.C.

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Friday, January 11, 2013 Theology
David Lamb is a professor of Old Testament and author.
David Lamb is a professor of Old Testament and author.

Exploring 'God Behaving Badly'

 An Old Testament scholar and author of an evocative book kicks off a sermon series at a CBF church in Missouri.

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Friday, January 11, 2013 Theology

Campolo sees future ‘red letter’ church

A veteran college professor says younger Christians are less concerned about the hereafter and more with the here and now.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 Theology
Charity Roberson prepares to baptize her then 5-year-old nephew Caleb in 2011.
Charity Roberson prepares to baptize her then 5-year-old nephew Caleb in 2011.

Baptism: How young is too young?

Experts say that baptism ages are dropping in churches that practice believer's baptism, but caution against setting arbitrary age limits on conversion.

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