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...called Albert Mohler, president of the 16-million member Southern Baptist Convention's Southern Theological Seminary and thus one of Evangelicalism's most influential theologians. He told me "It's simple...
...last year, according to the Dallas Police Department, up from 113 to 282 so far this year. Five detectives working metal thefts are overwhelmed by the increase, according to police spokesperson Donna Hernandez. Dallas' Dalco Air Conditioning & Heating Co. has replaced units at a pizza parlor and a struggling Baptist church. The two crimes total $30,000 in damage...
Providence is for rebels. the capital of the U.S. state of Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a stubborn Baptist banished from Massachusetts for criticizing that colony's government. He saw his exile not as punishment, but as a sign of God's "many providences." Dissenters would always be welcome here - the city, he said, would be a "lively experiment." It worked. The motto on the city seal is no obscure Latin phrase, but the salutation used by the local Indians to greet Williams: "What cheer?" Visitors[an error occurred while processing this directive] to Providence...
...campaign's supporters range from clergy like the Rev. Damon Lynch Jr., former president of the Baptist Ministers Conference, to politicians like former North Carolina Senator and likely presidential contender John Edwards. "The perception exists that [a living wage] is not a politically popular subject, and that people in general aren't interested in it," Edwards says. "But my feelings now on the subject are stronger than they've ever been. You can't live on $6, $7 or $8 an hour and have anything to fall back on. Instead of getting ahead, which most families want to focus...
...teleconference, the researchers stressed that they were not reading too much into the conclusions of the study.“It’s not unusual to have unanticipated results in such studies,” said Charles F. Bethea, chief medical officer at the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and a member of the study’s research team, in the teleconference. “And when they occur, it’s really better to consider possible causes of the unexpected finding, redesign the inquiry, and perform it again rather than try to overgeneralize from...