Category Archives: Sanctity of life

The Debate Is about Conscience, not Contraceptives

Richard Land is President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Note to our readers: Many Christians – both Catholics and evangelicals – have expressed profound concern about the Obama administration’s decision to force employers to include … Continue reading

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A Day of Mourning for Our Nation

Yesterday should be known as a day that our country took a huge step down.  In fact, it should be known as a day that our nation fell down into a deep pit.  That deep pit’s name is socialism.  Today … Continue reading

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Podcast Episode 16

The Thanksgiving week edition of the SBC Today podcast includes discussions about the Manhattan Declaration, the Georgia Baptist Convention’s removal of a member church, and our Thanksgiving travel plans. We enjoyed the discussion, and hope you will, as well. Listen … Continue reading

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Podcast Episode 5

We’re back with episode five of the SBC Today podcast. This time, I’m joined by Robin Foster, Scott Gordon, and Joe Stewart, and with a smaller crew comes a shorter podcast, this time coming in under thirty minutes. We were … Continue reading

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Barack Obama, Pay Grades, and the Right to Life of the Unborn

My last post on From The Hill, I celebrated that the United States of America had elected her first African American President. I wanted to follow up with another post soon after that one, but because of other obligations, I … Continue reading

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Thomas White: A Written Clarification on Birth Control

SBC Today is honored to have Dr. Thomas White’s clarification concerning his sermon at Southwestern on October 7th.   Below is his response. Since I had the privilege of preaching in the chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on October 7, … Continue reading

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Sanctity

The Baptist Faith and Message contains, in Article XV: The Christian and the Social Order, the following admonition: We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. … Continue reading

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