Wednesday, January 04, 2006

• CULTURE DIGEST: NBC’s ‘Book of Daniel’ mocks Christian families; Catholics consider abolishing ‘limbo’; ads add to teen drinking

  by Erin Curry Roach, posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--NBC is set to debut what it calls an “edgy” new drama starring a drug-addicted Episcopal priest who has a wife who downs mid-day martinis, a 23-year-old son who is a homosexual Republican, a 16-year-old daughter who sells marijuana and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sexual relations with the bishop’s daughter. Read More

• Ind. House Speaker refuses to defy judge's prayer ruling

  by Michael Foust, posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Rejecting requests to defy a judge's order banning the use of Christ's name in legislative prayers, Indiana's speaker of the house said Jan. 4 that instead of opening the 2006 session with a "government-approved" prayer, the house of representatives would have no formal prayer at all. Read More

• Baptist Spanish Publishing House celebrates centennial

  by Kay Madaris, posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  Family ties Mary Wheat, granddaughter of J. Edgar Davis, founder of the Baptist Spanish Publishing House, looks at pictures in the ministry’s new Joe T. Poe Historic Center, opened as part of the publishing house’s centennial celebration in El Paso, Texas. Photo by IMB

  EL PASO, Texas (BP)--On Nov. 17, 1905, J. Edgar Davis published his first book in Spanish on a foot-powered press in his kitchen in Toluca, Mexico. From that humble beginning, the Baptist Spanish Publishing House has become a modern, fully equipped enterprise now printing and shipping Bibles, books and other literature throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

        Around 1910, Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa took note of the ministry at a time when he was in desperate need of paper and learned the only supply in Toluca was in Davis’ possession. Arriving at Davis’ home, Villa demanded use of the paper, even offering to pay for it. Read More

• C.S. Lewis scholar hopes ‘Narnia’ helps postmoderns find God

  by Kyle Smith, posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  Michael Travers

  WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--When Michael Travers first read C.S. Lewis’ writings as a teenager, he “didn’t think much” of Lewis’ legendary “Mere Christianity” and felt his “Screwtape Letters” were “not as impressive to me” as they were to others.

        Admittedly, his disinterest had more to do with his spiritual condition at that time than the quality of Lewis’ work, said Travers, an English professor and C.S. Lewis scholar at Southeastern College at Wake Forest, the undergraduate school of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Read More

• Once a challenger to Tiger Woods, now a co-laborer with Christ

  by Michael McCormack, posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--If a SportsCenter trivia question asked, "Which golfer finished high school ranked No. 2 behind Tiger Woods?" most people would scan the PGA Tour roster for possible answers. But they would be looking in the wrong place. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Whose miracle will the new New Orleans be?

  by Joe McKeever, posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Last summer, my son Neil told his three children that he planned to take them to the park the next day. "Pray it won't rain," he said. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Darwin’s dangerous idea -- no middle ground

  by R. Albert Mohler Jr., posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 (18 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Daniel C. Dennett is one of the world's most influential evolutionary scientists, and unlike many of his colleagues, Dennett doesn't run away from Darwinism's logical conclusions. Instead, he describes Darwin's theory of evolution as a "universal acid" that completely reshapes reality, destroying those truths previously held to be enduring and unchanging.

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