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Faith sustains Smokies’ center fielder Szczur
January 9, 2014
Matt Szczur, a 2013 Southern League All-Star baseball player and the center fielder for the Tennessee Smokies (the Chicago Cubs’ AA affiliate in the Southern
Baptist universities, nuns defeat contraception mandate
January 9, 2014
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Supreme Court justice granted an order of Roman Catholic nuns a last-minute reprieve from the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. The order
Respect for clergy drops; pollsters attribute to sex abuse
January 9, 2014
WASHINGTON — Clergy used to rank near the top in polls asking Americans to rate the honesty and ethics of people in various professions. In
Methodist pastor defrocked for officiating gay wedding
January 9, 2014
LEBANON, Pa. — Frank Schaefer was defrocked by United Methodist officials in Pennsylvania on Dec. 19, 2013, after he refused to conform to denominational rules
ESPN hires Tebow as analyst for new SEC Network
January 9, 2014
Bristol, Conn. — Tim Tebow is returning to football — not as a player, but as an analyst for ESPN. The former University of Florida
Baptist leaders examine ministry in ‘new marriage culture’
January 9, 2014
Baptist leaders focused on the legal, political, biblical and practical issues related to the country’s changing definition of marriage during the recent “Ministering in the
Alabama minister Shahan arrested, charged with wife’s murder
January 9, 2014
After more than five months of near silence, investigators in the Karen Shahan murder case made a bold move Jan. 1 when they arrested her
Open Doors releases 2014 World Watch List
January 8, 2014
Open Doors released its annual list of the worst countries for Christian persecution globally Jan. 8. At the top of the list, for the 12th
