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...Southern Baptist Convention went into last week's decisive annual meeting as one big unhappy family. Big for sure: 14.9 million souls in 37,800 congregations; 7,600 missionaries in the U.S. and 116 foreign lands; $4.6 billion a year in receipts. Unhappy too because of the divisions caused by a populist drive to enforce belief in the inerrancy of the Bible, from Adam and Eve to Paul's authorship of the New Testament epistles bearing his name...
...less than willing. Two years ago, a Karen brigade sneaked into a refugee camp in Thailand at night, rounded up all the males ages 14 to 40 and marched them back to camp. The remaining villagers grew hysterical, and leaders of a small group of Seventh Day Adventist and Baptist missionaries, who supply refugees with school books, Bibles and food, protested to General Bo Mya, president of the Karens. The next day the conscripts were returned, and the missionaries received a note of apology from the brigade commander...
...beliefs of students and allow them to form clubs for prayer and support," she said. Much of the country's religious establishment also welcomed the ruling. "The court recognized the critical distinction between school-sponsored and student-sponsored religion: the former is unconstitutional; the latter is not," declared the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the Christian Legal Society, the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Council of Churches in a joint statement. But some groups, including civil liberties organizations, were much less sanguine. Warned Robert Lifton, president of the American Jewish Congress: "The decision will open...
Cerullo is entering a dicey and competitive business. Although cable is ( ideal for specialized TV programming, experts figure that only two or three of the numerous religious networks can survive the next few years. Eternal Word (independent Roman Catholic, 14 million households) and ACTS (Southern Baptist-owned, 9.5 million) are pinning their salvation on locally based denominational loyalty. An interfaith and ecumenical entry known as VISN (7.4 million) just got Tele-Communications, Inc. and other cable owners to pledge as much as $12 million and give it two years to succeed. But VISN's programming is nonconfrontational, and hot gospel...
...Some of your brethren in the Southern Baptist Convention have expressed outrage at your meeting with prominent Roman Catholics...