Resources from 2000

BETHLEHEM, Israel (BP)--Christmas 2000 was supposed to have been a landmark celebration in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, but because of ongoing violence, the holiday is all but cancelled this year in the town where it all began.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (BP)--Residents of this east Georgia city are showing their holiday spirit this week as they rally to aid victims of a tornado that leveled 15 homes south of the city and damaged about 70 others on Dec. 17.

ROME (BP)--A delegation from the Baptist World Alliance met with representatives from the Roman Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Dec. 2-3 in the Vatican.

ROME (BP)--It was a striking image to one observer: evangelical Protestant powerhouses James Dobson and Chuck Colson visiting the headquarters of the Catholic church, the very institution Protestants rebelled against centuries ago.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–When ABC’s Peter Jennings hosted a television documentary on the life of Jesus, the network heard from conservative Christians who complained that the Biblical view of Christ was not accurate. D. James Kennedy, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and president of Evangelism Explosion International, was one of those conservatives. On Tuesday, Dec. […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The Baptist Communicators Association will award three scholarships to students training for careers in religious communication next spring, according to BCA Administrative Coordinator Keith Beene. Applications must be received by Jan. 12, 2001. Each year the organization awards a scholarship for $1,000 to an undergraduate student and one $500 scholarship to a graduate […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–An updated view of God is finding its way into evangelical churches, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Bruce Ware hopes to expose this new teaching for what it is: an unbiblical redefinition of God. This movement, known as “open theism,” proposes a view of God that is altogether different from what has […]

COVINGTON, Ky. (BP)–At an age when most people are thinking of retirement, Harold Pike still rides a motorcycle to work, plays basketball and tennis, and works out twice a week. But it’s not just the 65-year-old pastor’s energy that keeps him going. He has vision. The kind that persuaded him his church would acquire the […]

COVINGTON, Ky. (BP)–When Amy Cummins was six years old, she sat in her mother’s chair at a Girls In Action meeting and said, “Mom, I’m day I’m going to go to seminary and be an inner-city missionary like you.” However, while a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex., Amy reasoned she […]

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (BP)–The Gospel and the Great White Way are no strangers. From Godspell to Les Miserables, Broadway musicals have often borrowed the church’s message of grace and redemption. At the same time, the Broadway musical is incredibly adept at glorifying the seamier side of life, so the church has been reluctant to borrow anything […]