More than 1,000 delegates of the 8.2 million-member United Methodist Church (UMC) gathered in Pittsburgh April 27–May 7 for the denomination’s quadrennial General Conference to
By Steve DeVane President Bush promised the nearly 8,600 messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting in Indianapolis he would defend the sanctity
NASHVILLE — Programs like “True Love Waits,” which challenge young people to abstain from sexual activity until marriage, dramatically reduce the rate of out-of-wedlock births,
Louisiana College trustees, whose December decision to screen all classroom materials was criticized as a violation of academic freedom, will consider an even stricter textbook
EVANSTON, Ill. — Men and women married to United Methodist clergy say their families are subject to unrealistic notions of perfection and often suffer from
WASHINGTON — Conservative activists in five mainline Protestant denominations have endorsed a federal amendment that would prohibit gay marriage. Coordinated by the Washington-based Association for
Alabama legislators are united against same-sex “marriages,” but they are divided on when to let the people vote on a constitutional amendment outlawing these unions.
In our July 31, 2003, edition, The Alabama Baptist editorially called for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States defining marriage as between
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