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...First Baptist Church, ironically located at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Jefferson Davis (former Confederate president) Street, Hillary Clinton addressed specific issues such as health care, veteran benefits, global warming and the plight of Katrina victims still living in trailers. She also criticized the state of current voting rights and the position of the nation on the world's stage. A crowd of about 750 crowded into the church, with overflow watching a video screen in the basement. "It's time to take it back," said Clinton referring to our national standing...
...secular humanist” who unequivocally acknowledges the “seismic divide” between Christian doctrines and natural biology, seeks to enlist the support of science’s most unlikely ally: the Wilberforces of the modern world. Composed as a series of letters to a Southern Baptist pastor, Wilson’s work paints a dismal picture of the dramatic and widespread deterioration of the Earth’s various ecosystems. Wilson includes a compelling array of facts, but the true significance of these facts—and, indeed, the true worth of his book?...
Growing up in the Baptist-dominated wilds of western North Carolina, I usually watched book burnings with a mixture of perplexity and dismay. Now I understand them. Sometimes, books are so offensive they necessitate bonfires. Case in point: Mitch Albom’s new bestseller. “For One More Day” tells of what happens when the middle-aged Charley has the chance to have “the ‘one more day’ that so many wish they had with a lost loved one—a day to ask questions, seek forgiveness...
After roughly 200 years of decline, Calvinism, the faith of the Puritans, has made a modest comeback among younger Evangelical Christians. One of the movement's potent mentors is Albert Mohler, the influential, telegenic head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who made waves last June when he critiqued the religious claims of presidential contender Barack Obama in an essay called Secularism With A Smile...
...gravely watched Thursday as a succession of speakers, representing the city's various neighborhoods, railed against the violence and called on not only city leaders but citizens to do more to stop it. "We have come to lodge our complaint," growled Reverend John Raphael, Jr., pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Central City, one of the city's most crime-plagued neighborhoods. "We have come to declare that a city that could not be drowned in the floods of a storm will not be drowned in the blood of its citizens...