Resources from 1998

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP)–Southern Baptists have always been theologically and politically conservative — and they will remain so unless they fail to evangelize a culture this is increasingly running counter to traditional Christian beliefs, according to a New York University Press book, “The Rise of Baptist Republicanism.” The 1998 book, by Oran P. Smith, a Presbyterian […]

DETROIT (BP)–Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein referred to Americans Sunday as “agents of Satan,” but an Egyptian-American Southern Baptist minister who conducts Bible studies for Detroit-area Iraqis disagrees, saying it is Saddam who is like Adolf Hitler. “Saddam is building nuclear weapons, trying to make himself a source of horror in the area,” says Wajih Girgis, […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–As Christmas fast approaches, many in the United States will celebrate with a flurry of secular carols and shopping for expensive gifts for friends and family. But in the island nation of Cuba, where the Christmas holiday is being reinstated by the Communist government after an absence of three decades, two Southwestern […]

NEW ORLEANS (BP)–Christmas carols — even to people who at other times of the year would say they don’t care much about music — are both appealing and compelling because of the emotions they stir and the wide range of sensory awareness present during Christmastime, said two New Orleans professors and church musicians. “Christmas is […]

WASHINGTON (BP)–President Clinton “richly deserves and has thoroughly earned” his impeachment approved by the United States House of Representatives, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics agency said Dec. 21. Clinton became only the second United States president to be impeached when the House approved two articles of impeachment, one for perjury and another […]

NEW ORLEANS (BP)–Ministers must reach, believe and endure “if you are going to have an impact on the kingdom of God, if you are going to see God do great and mighty things in your life,” Chuck Kelley charged graduates of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary during the mid-session commencement service Dec. 18. “Those three […]

WASHINGTON (BP)–President Clinton was guilty of “shameless hypocrisy” when he called in his post-impeachment speech for an end to the “politics of personal destruction,” said the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics agency. Richard Land, president of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, was joined by USA Today and a former White House […]

NEW YORK (BP)–Four people accepted Christ as Lord and Savior at an open house hosted by the North American Mission Board at the United Nations Dec. 17, according to Phil Roberts, director of interfaith witness evangelism for the Southern Baptist Convention agency. “Even though the U.N. is in turmoil because of the events in Iraq, […]