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Sunday morning at St. Louis' Kingshighway Baptist Church could pass for a slow day at a retirement-home chapel. The dwindling flock is a sea of white hair and bald heads. And the service, which kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway...
...Louis, church planting is that most blessed of arrangements: a win-win proposition. New churches like the French-Speaking Baptist Church of St. Louis, now ensconced inside the ornate walls of the century-old Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, get to worship in some of the most beautiful religious structures in the city instead of the storefronts in which poor congregations often start out. At the same time, church planting has advantages for struggling host congregations like Our Redeemer, whose membership has fallen from 1,200 to 88 as its German-American neighborhood has changed to a black, Haitian...
DALLAS: America?s family entertainer defines family a tad too broadly, according to the 15-million member Southern Baptist Convention, which has decided to boycott Disney for its "gay friendly policies." Disney's worst offense? The decision to bring Ellen Degeneres' character out of the closet on the sitcom "Ellen," produced by Walt Disney Television and shown on Disney subsidiary ABC. Mouse Central is keeping mum. Last year, the Convention issued a warning to Disney about the evils of "Gay Days" at company theme parks and same-sex partner health benefits. Disney survived. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern...
Labeling Goldwater "John the Baptist of the Republican Party," Kleindienst says that the notorious right-winger is at the foundation of the modern Republican Party's ideology...
...conviction that it is wrong. The Bible teaches that wrong is wrong, but it also teaches that some things will result in greater public outcry than others. Sexuality is one of them. The extreme fringes of sexuality will always carry the most severe consequences. (THE REV.) WENDELL RAY First Baptist Church Gulf Breeze, Florida...