Budget reflects major shift in poverty policy
President Obama’s first proposed budget signals a dramatic shift in prioritizing domestic poverty, centrist and liberal Christian leaders said.
Pastor finds success in depression battle hrough medical, psychological treatment
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.
Well Community offers lessons learned from ministry to mentally ill people
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Ministers often need help caring for their own mental health
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Through a Glass Darkly: Churches respond to mental illness
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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
Music Review: U2’s latest offers ‘grace inside a sound’
Baptist divinity school professor Stephen Harmon characterizes U2's new album, No Line on the Horizon, as "the most thoroughly Christian thing they’ve done yet.”
Dobson resigns as Focus on the Family chairman
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Right or Wrong? Can micro-enterprises help alieviate poverty?
Helping the poor is not an option for Christians. It is a biblical mandate. The Hebrew Scriptures and Jesus make clear God’s people are to care for the poor. There are many fine Christian organizations that seek to do that. Habitat for Humanity and Bread
Hospitality to the stranger gives everyone a place at Third Baptist Church
ST. LOUIS — With 12,000 theatre seats, 12 galleries and museums and more than 1,500 cultural events each year, St. Louis’ Grand Center is an art-lover’s dream. In the heart of the historic downtown neighborhood stands Third Baptist Church, a church dedicated to be
President Lincoln and God
An unbelievable number of books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. In a veritable historical laboratory, his life has been studied and dissected by scholars and the less scholarly, by admirers, detractors and the merely curious.