WASHINGTON — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty is among several religious and civil-liberties groups objecting to proposed rules giving federal prisons more leeway to ban religious books that officials believe could incite violence or criminal behavior.
Though traditionally viewed as a Catholic rite, increasing numbers of Baptists are discovering the discipline of Lent.
The killing of senior pastor Fred Winters while he preached during the early service Sunday at First Baptist Church of Maryville, Ill., 20 miles northeast of St. Louis, was a terrible tragedy.
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President Obama’s first proposed budget signals a dramatic shift in prioritizing domestic poverty, centrist and liberal Christian leaders said.
Kirby Smith has his life back. After years of struggling with clinical depression – what he calls “a hell on earth” -- the Virginia Baptist pastor has discovered in both medical and psychological treatment a way to deal with his disease.
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Because of a fear, mistrust of behavioral sciences, a fuzzy understanding of brain function and a poor theology of sin many Christians, chuches and ministers