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| 8/7/2009 |
FIRST-PERSON: Participatory democracy, on display
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Three important aspects of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution are that Congress shall make no law abridging ... Read More |
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| 8/6/2009 |
FIRST PERSON: New fuel needed
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Ever run out of gas? Frustrating. Some people become so frustrated that they beat on the steering wheel ... Read More |
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| 8/5/2009 |
'Proactive' ministry goal of Naval Academy chaplain
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BP)--As Lt. Cmdr. Scott Callaham reflects on the opportunities God has given him as a North American Mission Board-endorsed chaplain, one that stands out is when he baptized men by immersion for the first time in the 101-year history of the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel.
Callaham, a member of Weems Creek Baptist Church in Annapolis, Md., is serving a three-year tour of duty at the Naval Academy. On Easter this year, he helped baptize nine midshipmen in a converted physical therapy tub.
The occasion was important to Callaham, he said, because young believers serving in the nation's military testified to their faith in a public manner.
"Immersion has a very evangelistic impact, especially when it's performed with people who are not Christians in attendance," Callaham told BaptistLIFE, newsjournal of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.
"Going through the act tells the whole story, sometimes better than with words. That believer gets buried with Christ and rises. He or she identifies with Christ right now in faith, testifying to Christ's resurrection in the past and to the believer's own resurrection in the future. It's pretty powerful," he said.
Callaham graduated from the academy in 1993, but he remembers well arriving in Annapolis just out of high school in Houston. With his head shaved, he swore his oath of service and soon began his days with rigorous physical activity at 5:45 a.m. Read More |
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| 8/5/2009 |
Med school planned for Louisiana College
PINEVILLE, La. (BP)--Louisiana College has announced plans to open a medical school in 2012. The new program, which is expected to have an initial class of 60 students and grow to 110 incoming students per year, has a proposed $30 million annual operational budget. Read More |
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| 8/5/2009 |
'Christmas in August' offering welcome, but not a long-term solution, IMB's Rankin says
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--While additional gifts for missions are welcome, the "Christmas in August" special offering being promoted across the Southern Baptist Convention will not solve the long-term funding needs of the International Mission Board, that organization's leader says. Read More |
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| 8/5/2009 |
FIRST-PERSON: A house divided
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Less than a month after the Episcopal Church voted to end its commitment to a moratorium on the election of openly homosexual priests as bishops ... Read More |
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| 8/4/2009 |
Church gives building to another congregation
TULSA, Okla. (BP)--In the early 1970s, Valley View Baptist Church in Tulsa was running 400 in Sunday School. Then the neighborhood began to transition and membership spiraled downward. Read More |
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| 8/4/2009 |
Retia Dukes dies after 4 month battle
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| 8/3/2009 |
House panel nixes another pro-life effort on health care
WASHINGTON (BP)--A U.S. House of Representatives committee turned back another pro-life effort Friday to exclude abortion funding from health care reform legislation before approving the overall measure.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31-27 against an amendment to prohibit federal funds from paying for an abortion or covering any part of a health plan that includes coverage of abortion. Later, the panel endorsed the bill, America's Affordable Health Choices Act, H.R. 3200, in a 31-28 vote.
The committee's July 31 actions on health care reform came on the House's final day before beginning a five-week recess. The Energy and Commerce Committee became the third House panel to approve health care reform legislation, as well as the third one to reject amendments to prevent mandated abortion coverage and to exclude federal subsidies for abortions.
The Energy and Commerce Committee had defeated in a 30-29 roll call the previous day an amendment by Reps. Bart Stupak, D.-Mich., and Joe Pitts, R.-Pa., to bar abortion from being required as part of a basic health benefits package in government and private plans. Stupak and Pitts also offered the amendment to prevent federal money for abortions.
While the committee rejected pro-life efforts at amending the bill, it adopted in a 30-28 vote July 30 an amendment by Rep. Lois Capps, D.-Calif., that was portrayed as maintaining the current bans on federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers described it as a "phony compromise," however.
The amendment by Capps, a pro-choice advocate, would allow the "public health insurance option" -- which would be paid for by the federal government -- to fund elective abortions. It also would permit federal subsidies for private insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage, according to the National Right to Life Committee.
"The adoption of the pro-abortion Capps Amendment, and the rejection of the pro-life Stupak-Pitts amendment, underscores that H.R. 3200 would drastically change federal policy, channeling massive new federal subsidies to health plans that pay for abortion on demand, including a national plan that will be offered by the federal government," NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson wrote on the organization's website. "This is Condition Red for the pro-life movement." Read More |
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| 8/3/2009 |
New Iberia to Brazil, church reaches the world
NEW IBERIA, La. (BP)--It's the people, not the location, that are important to Highland Baptist Church in New Iberia, La.
Within the past year church members have taken the Gospel to the streets of Brazil, shared the love of Christ in a Louisiana prison ..., Read More |
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| 8/3/2009 |
TRUSTEES: GuideStone trustees receive positive report
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| 8/3/2009 |
FIRST-PERSON: Drive-through weddings?
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Fox News recently reported a quicker way of getting things done ... at least for the sacred union of marriage. Read More |
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| 8/29/2008 |
Seminary evacuation prepares for Gustav
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| 8/29/2008 |
Baptists expand post-Gustav meal capacity
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| 8/29/2008 |
Baptist schools listed in 2 rankings
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