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Mandate could force some core Democrats to bail on president
Published: Sun, May 27, 2012
WEDGE politics typically involves using an issue to divide your opponent from potential supporters. President Obama has flipped the practice on its head. He's using wedge politics on his own supporters. Nowhere is that more apparent than the controversy over the administration's mandate for all employers to... Read More
Romney faces the Moral Majority
Published: Mon, May 21, 2012
When the Rev. Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979, many fundamentalist pastors were appalled by his decision to wade into the muck of politics.
Even more shocking, Falwell said this would be an interfaith project from the get-go, one open to conservatives in many flocks -- including the Church of... Read More
Baptists believe in gospel, Thunder
Published: Sat, May 12, 2012
Oklahoma Southern Baptist groups have created an outreach aimed at sharing the gospel and providing hospitality to fans and visitors as the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team gears up for another round of playoffs. Read More
Religion Census charts nation's congregations
Published: Sat, May 5, 2012
The 2010 U.S. Religion Census unveiled Tuesday shows that independent evangelical congregations make up one of the largest religious groups in the country. This is the first time the census has included independent evangelical bodies. Read More
Oklahoma Baptist University student wins video contest recognition
Published: Sat, May 5, 2012
An Oklahoma Baptist University student recently earned recognition for his video entered in the Creation Care Video Contest. Read More
God, Allah and Rick Warren
Published: Mon, Mar 12, 2012
At the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, centuries of Islamic doctrine have literally been carved into the shrine's walls.
Two quotations on the northwest wall will be of special interest to anyone interested in the latest whirlwind of controversy linked to evangelical superstar Rick Warren and his... Read More
Superstar T.D. Jakes makes a confession
Published: Mon, Feb 6, 2012
For more than a decade, Pentecostal Bishop T.D. Jakes has lived in the shadow of a Time magazine cover that asked, "Is this man the next Billy Graham?"
That was a loaded question, because of tensions behind the scenes between the multimedia Dallas superstar and many mainstream Christian leaders.
Now, this... Read More
Evangelical vs. 'secular' America
Published: Mon, Jan 9, 2012
EDITOR'S NOTE: Terry Mattingly is on vacation. This column originally ran July 1, 2011.
When evangelical leaders look at the United States of America, they do not see a country defined by the familiar Gallup Poll statistic stating that 92 percent of its citizens profess some kind of belief in God.
Nor do... Read More
Southern Baptists or not?
Published: Tue, Dec 20, 2011
Journalists have been known to jump to premature conclusions if a denomination has the word "Southern" in its name.
Consider this paragraph in an MSNBC.com report about efforts by Southern Baptist researchers to shed light on the pros and cons of changing the name of America's largest non-Catholic flock. Southern... Read More
A growing, changing God lobby in D.C.
Published: Tue, Nov 29, 2011
Believe it or not, politicians used to be able to assume that when the U.S. Catholic bishops spoke on an issue, that meant that the nation's Catholics had spoken.
That was so mid-20th century.
Before long, Catholic liberals -- backed by Playboy's Hugh Hefner and others -- would dare to create a pro-abortion-rights... Read More
After 911: Evangelicals (heart) New York
Published: Tue, Sep 20, 2011
Pastors have their own brand of insider humor, just like doctors, lawyers, accountants and other skilled professionals.
The same is true for the missionaries, researchers and pastors who plant churches. Thus, Ed Stetzer once heard a veteran missions professor tell the following bittersweet joke at Southwestern... Read More
Bill Keller vs. the religious aliens
Published: Tue, Sep 13, 2011
Less than a year after 9/11, a New York Times columnist stunned the newspaper's remaining conservative readers by suggesting that both the Vatican and al-Qaida were on the wrong side in the global war against oppression.
"The struggle within the church" in recent decades, he argued, is "interesting as part of a... Read More
An Orthodox speech on an elevator
Published: Wed, Aug 24, 2011
There is nothing unusual about a priest who is dressed in clerical garb having a stranger ask him a religious question during a long airline flight.
"You ask a guy where he's from and what he does and then he asks you the same thing. Many people just want to talk," explained Father John David Finley, a missionary... Read More
Evangelical vs. 'secular' America
Published: Wed, Jul 6, 2011
When evangelical leaders look at the United States of America, they do not see a country defined by the familiar Gallup Poll statistic stating that 92 percent of its citizens profess some kind of belief in God.
Nor do they see a land that is only 1.6 percent atheist and 2.4 percent agnostic, according to the U.S.... Read More
Orthodox bridge to the evangelical world
Published: Thu, Jun 16, 2011
As point man for Russian Orthodox relations with other faith groups, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev is used to talking shop with Catholics, Anglicans, leaders in older brands of Protestantism and other world religions.
These duties have long been part of his job description. Meeting with leaders from the world's... Read More
Group to present story of Billy Graham Library
Published: Fri, Apr 29, 2011
Representatives of the Billy Graham Foundation will give details about the Billy Graham Library during a 7 p.m. May 10 program at Faith Bible Church, 600 N Coltrane in Edmond. Read More
Passion, not apathy, is what leads to knowledge
Published: Fri, Oct 8, 2010
One of the most important facts to grasp about the small but growing flock of Americans who call themselves unbelievers is that most of them are converts.
"When you meet people who identify themselves as 'atheists' or 'agnostics,' these are people who are taking a stand, they're committing themselves to a strong... Read More
Mike Thompson endorses James Lankford in 5th Dist. race
Updated: Fri, Jul 30, 2010
State Rep. Mike Thompson has endorsed his Republican primary opponent James Lankford in the Aug. 24 runoff election for the 5th District U.S. House seat. Thompson made the endorsement Friday on his Facebook page, saying he believes "James Lankford is the transformative leader we need." Thompson finished third in... Read More
Southern Baptists speak out on Gulf crisis
Published: Wed, Jun 23, 2010
Like most people born and raised in Biloxi, Miss., theologian Russell Moore grew up about 10 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.
It cost too much to live near the water, but that didn't really matter since the sights, smells and rhythms of the coast defined the whole community. Driving away from his hometown has... Read More
Obama meets with Billy Graham
Published: Wed, May 5, 2010
Both men faced rows of loved ones still wrapped in grief after shocking tragedies.
Both men quoted the Psalms. Both concluded with visions of eternal life and heavenly reunions. Both referred to familiar songs that offered comfort.
Facing those gathered in Beckley, W.Va., to mourn the loss of 29 miners,... Read More
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