Texas standoff gave Baptists numerous ministries to lawmen
FORT DAVIS, Texas (BP)–Texas Baptists provided physical and spiritual food for participants on both sides of the tense, week-long Davis Mountain Resort standoff in far West Texas. Ed Jennings, director of missions of the Big Bend Baptist Association, which covers Marfa, Alpine and Fort Davis, was on-site with the estimated 200 to 300 lawmen during […]
New Age, Heaven’s Gate reflect ‘pampered’ society, expert says
DALLAS (BP)--New Age religion is "intellectual Velcro dragged across the great religions traditions of the world picking up odd bits of theological lint as it goes," Mark Thames, a Dallas interfaith witness speaker, said.
Evangelist’s ‘jailhouse religion’ to last ‘all the way to heaven’
HOUSTON (BP)--"People say chain-gang religion is no good, that jailhouse religion doesn't work. Well, it worked for me, and I'm gonna ride that horse all the way to heaven," said Frank Constantino, president and founder of C.O.P.E., Coalition of Prison Evangelists, encompassing 300 prison ministries across the nation.
