Why Baptists stand with Catholics on birth control mandate
Authors: Bryant Wright, President of the Southern Baptist Convention and Senior Pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church; Richard Land, President, The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; O. S. Hawkins, President/CEO, GuideStone Financial Resources, Southern Baptist Convention We acknowledge that Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists have differing views on how we understand and... Continue Reading
Two year old Supreme Court decision on religion may be as bad as expected; upends campus religious groups
Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, sees the Martinez decision “lurking in the background” of other cases. He filed suit in February on behalf of the Christian anti-abortion group Make Up Your Own Mind at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. The school, which does not have an all-comers policy like Hastings, was... Continue Reading
Responses to President Obama’s Statement on Same-sex Marriage
The temptation is for Christians go silent and give up the marriage fight: “It’s no use staying in this battle,” we think to ourselves. “We don’t have to change our personal position. We’ll keep speaking the truth and upholding the Bible in our churches, but getting worked up over gay marriage in the public square... Continue Reading
North Carolina becomes 30th state with marriage amendment
J.D. Greear, lead pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., a Southern Baptist congregation, urged the church’s members to support the amendment. “Government did not define or establish marriage. God did. Government merely recognized that which has been established by the Creator.” North Carolina voters have made the state the 30th in the U.S.... Continue Reading
Federal Court: Tennessee Tech policy violated First Amendment rights of evangelist
[Court] said McGlone’s desire to share his beliefs is protected First Amendment activity and the open areas of Tennessee Tech’s campus are public forums. When deciding to allow people on campus, the policies must not grant overly broad licensing discretion to government officials…[and] the two-week notice period is unreasonable, far longer than other timeframes upheld... Continue Reading
When Paul Sent the Celebrity Pastor
There have always been men–like this fellow and like Chrysostom or Knox or Whitefield or Spurgeon or Lloyd-Jones or ten thousand others–who have been “famous among all the churches for [their] preaching of the gospel.” It is not a capitulation to culture to admit this fact. And it’s not bad to acknowledge these men and... Continue Reading
David Barton’s Jefferson Portrayal Less Than Honest
“It’s easy to believe in the separation of church and state when one has nothing but scorn for all organized religion. That was the position of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s hatred of the clergy and established churches knew no bounds. He thought that members of the ‘priestcraft’ were always in alliance with despots against liberty.” –Gordon... Continue Reading
Law-and-order Gov. Bob McDonnell sets record pace for restoring civil rights of former felons
What Kaine and his successor, McDonnell, have in common is they are Virginia’s first two Roman Catholic governors, and both are mindful of the church’s opposition to capital punishment. Kaine allowed executions to proceed, as has McDonnell, despite faith-based teachings to the contrary. “I think they’re both right. Justice is a fundamental tenet of our... Continue Reading
The Torah and Politics
Thankfully in time the Reformed tradition came to see the mistake in insisting that civil magistrates are to enforce the true religion, and both the Westminster Confession of Faith (the Presbyterian confession) and the Belgic Confession of Faith (the Dutch Reformed confession) were modified to eliminate that requirement. Nevertheless, I can’t help but think that... Continue Reading
Tennessee Governor Haslam, The Presbyterian Elder, Knows His Calvin In Vetoing Vanderbilt Bill
The following aphorism speaks to Christians living under tyranny. “When tyrants reign, let us first remember our faults, which are chastised by such sourges; and, therefore, humility will restrain our impatience. Besides, it is not in our power to remedy these evils, and all that remains for us is to implore the assistance of the... Continue Reading
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