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  • FIRST-PERSON: Seismic change
    by Douglas Falknor, posted Thursday, July 23, 2020 (8 months ago)

    Pastor Douglas Falknor reminds Christians how to maintain stability in a world of endless change. "God continues to be our dwelling place," he says. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: A climate of change
    by Kie Bowman, posted Wednesday, July 08, 2020 (9 months ago)

    Kie Bowman recounts how despite cultural upheaval, Southern Baptists came together to reach the world for Christ. "Southern Baptists have a history of choosing action," he says. Read More

  • U.N. climate change report countered by 'real data'
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, October 09, 2018 (2 years ago)

    Photo from NASA.
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- A United Nations report calling for "unprecedented" changes in energy use to limit climate change is unnecessarily alarmist and seems informed by a non-biblical view of human life, say a Southern Baptist climate scientist and a seminary president.

    "Look at the real data," said John Christy, a former lead author for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "Remember that human life is precious. And thus providing access to [energy sources] that enhance human life is really the moral track to take here. I just wouldn't be too excited about these reports from government entities like the United Nations." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: 'New' doesn't always mean 'bad'
    by Tony Wolfe, posted Thursday, May 31, 2018 (2 years ago)

    "Embrace the new things God is doing in your church," Tony Wolfe writes. "Step into them with simple faith that the God of yesterday is also the God of tomorrow. No, you've never done it this way before. But maybe that's a good thing." Read More

  • Climate change critics perceive threat from AGs
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, April 12, 2016 (4 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- An effort by 17 state and territorial attorneys general and former vice president Al Gore to find "creative ways to enforce" laws related to climate change has been characterized as contrary to the spirit of a 2007 Southern Baptist Convention resolution "on global warming."

    Evangelical climate change experts have added that the coalition of attorneys general from 15 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands seems to have made assertions in conflict with constitutional principles and sound scientific procedure. Read More

  • Climate change accord draws concern for poor
    by David Roach, posted Monday, December 14, 2015 (5 years ago)

    PARIS (BP) -- The climate change accord struck in Paris among 195 nations thankfully is nonbinding, evangelical commentators noted, because rigorous implementation of it could harm the world's poorest residents and stifle nations' economic growth based on disputed science. Read More

  • Scientists: investigate climate change skeptics
    by WORLD News Service & Baptist Press staff, posted Tuesday, October 13, 2015 (5 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Climate change is the focus of dueling calls for investigation in Washington.

    The controversy began Sept. 1, when a consortium of 20 climate scientists urged the Obama administration in a letter to investigate researchers who don't support man-made climate change theories. Read More

  • AT THE MOVIES: Change everywhere but at the feet of Jesus
    by Phil Boatwright, posted Friday, July 17, 2015 (5 years ago)

    Movie reviewer Phil Boatwright reflects on Hollywood's decades-long -– and ever-accelerating --- push for societal change. "[M]ovies often take us down a fantastical path that leads to nowhere," Boatwright writes, "because their makers all too often disavow the existence of or the need for a Creator." Read More