Corporate prayer needed to reach nation’s inner cities, Galvan says
AUSTIN, Texas (BP)–Corporate prayer is one of the most important keys to reaching the inner city for Christ, said David Galvan at the annual conference of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “We have not seen America’s cities experience a mighty sovereign-led move of God because prayer has not been a priority,” […]
Hemphill: Sanctity of life extends from conception to evangelism
AUSTIN, Texas (BP)–Christians have an ethical mandate from Scripture to move beyond simply the “right to truth” to a more comprehensive issue of “right to life,” the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary said March 2 at the annual conference of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “We must provide the radical […]
ERLC’s Land urges Senate to restore religious liberties
WASHINGTON (BP)–Southern Baptist agency head Richard Land encouraged Congress to restore the religious liberties of Americans in a Capitol Hill hearing before the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Referring to last year’s decision of the U. S. Supreme Court to overturn the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Land said, […]
Land urges moral leadership in comments to congressmen
WASHINGTON (BP) — Southern Baptist ethics agency head Richard Land challenged congressional leaders to provide “moral leadership” during a recent Capitol Hill summit attended by other conservative religious leaders. “Our constituents want moral leadership,” said Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “We want you [Congress] to care as much about moral issues […]
Proliferation of pornography poisoning America, Land warns
CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP)–A ravenous cancer is destroying modern society from the inside out, declared Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, at the commission’s annual seminar on the theme, “The Family & Human Sexuality: Reaffirming God’s Design.” “Pornography is Satan’s counterfeit and Satan’s corruption of God’s design for us as […]
SBC leaders should speak out for sexually abused, House says
EDITORS’ NOTE: The following story was omitted from Baptist Press 3/4/98. The story that inadvertently appeared, “SBC missionaries brace for El Nino effect,” appeared in (BP) last September. CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP)–With a stern word of warning, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Paul House challenged Southern Baptist Convention leadership to speak out for and act on […]
