Church arsons continue to decrease
March 2, 2000
WASHINGTON — Church arsons have decreased for the third straight year after a jump in the arson rate in 1996, a task force studying the
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Study reveals ‘born again’ has new meaning
March 2, 2000
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — “Born again” doesn’t mean what it used to, according to researcher Wade Clark Roof of the University of California-Santa Barbara. Roof’s
Jail deputy suspended for praying with inmates
March 2, 2000
TAMPA, Fla. — The Associated Press reported in early January that a jail deputy in the Tampa Bay area was suspended for refusing to stop
Seminaries offer Bibles to prospective students
March 2, 2000
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Seminaries have begun sending a CD-ROM Bible to prospective students after finding a growing number of incoming freshmen at Christian colleges do not
Ministry to Armed Forces gets new chair
March 2, 2000
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Robert C. Vickers, director of the chaplaincy evangelism team at the North American Mission Board (NAMB), has been elected chairman of the
Golden Gate ‘rededicates’ chapel
March 2, 2000
MILL VALLEY, Calif. — In what was meant to be a multipurpose room when it was built more than 40 years ago, Golden Gate Seminary
First Hispanic leads Texas executive board
March 2, 2000
DALLAS — Rudy Sanchez made history Feb. 22 when he became the first Hispanic to preside over the 231-member Texas Baptist executive board. Sanchez, 63,
Motivated by anger, arsonist destroys a church
March 2, 2000
HIXSON, Tenn. — A man who was angry with his father burned down the church where his father was pastor in 1998, according to arson
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