News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

That’s the title of Terry Mattingly’s latest post over at GetReligion. Mattingly writes: The media have written extensively, if poorly, about Bush’s faith. There was that New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story about Bush’s faith. And countless others which we’ve all read over the past decade.And yet when President Bush celebrates other religions or [...]

After spending two hours last Friday with President Bush in the Roosevelt Room, David Brooks comes back with a slight case of Hero Worship and this New York Times op-ed…. Far from being beleaguered, Bush was assertive and good-humored. While some in his administration may be looking for exit strategies, he is unshakablycommitted to stabilizing [...]

One Baptist pastor in the District of Columbia has declared that ENOUGH is ENOUGH. On her blog and in an article at EthicsDaily.com, Amy Butler of Calvary Baptist Church has posted a letter to President Bush concerning his recent decision to commute Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. Butler writes… Dear Mr. Bush:  Happy birthday to us, [...]

The Associated Press caption reads: U.S. President George Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, enjoy a cold drink in historic Heiligendamm, Germany, Thursday, June 7, 2007. The leaders of the G8 nations are holding their annual summit in the sea resort on June 6-8, 2007. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Read more here. UPDATED* – According [...]

Georgie Ann Geyer: A Spreading Terror – via Dallas Morning News. The White House sees terrorists as born, not created by history, bearing the mark of Cain, not the mark of circumstance. There is a scarlet “T” written on their foreheads at birth and the only answer is to destroy them. This kind of thinking, [...]