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When the EF-5 tornado struck Joplin, Mo., last May 22, 161 people were killed and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged. The tornado also stirred the heart of Jackie Jacobs, a math teacher in Science Hill, Ky., who has since moved to Joplin with his wife and three children to coordinate Baptist volunteers' recovery efforts.
Arkansas pastor Richard D. Piles has become chairman of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission after the resignation of a retired Indiana minister who was leading the Southern Baptist entity?s trustee board.
The Nigerian military's raid of a Muslim terrorist base stocked with explosives and ammunition in Jos refutes Islamist claims that Christians have been bombing their own churches, a local pastor says.
When an EF-5 tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., one year ago, Harmony Heights Baptist Church and Empire Baptist Church were completely destroyed. That is, their buildings were demolished. "One of the things we have to recognize is that the church is not a building, it's the people in the building," said Charlie Burnett, pastor at Harmony Heights.
First Baptist Church in Webb City, Mo., just a few minutes north of Joplin, has opened its doors to thousands of volunteers over the last 12 months, as one of several Joplin-area churches that have housed workers since and EF-5 tornado killed 161 and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes and businesses on May 22 of last year.
Separation of church and state should not prohibit the public expression of religious beliefs, says International Mission Board global correspondent Erich Bridges. In his WorldView column, Bridges encourages the "vigorous exercise and defense" of the First Amendment right to free religious expression.
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The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial will begin a third day of deliberations Tuesday after asking to take another look at a batch of exhibits from the four-week case.
The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to tighten sanctions on Iran on Monday, three days after a dispute over including the threat of American force stalled the legislation.
The European financial crisis is poorly understood in the United States.
Julian Zelizer says that even impartial observers see that congressional Republicans have taken the partisan wars to extremes
Shortly after President Barack Obama was inaugurated, he said that his re-election effort will be judged largely on the economy.
Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.
Two very different candidates joined by similar, yet hollow, attacks on their faith illustrate the intense mix of identity politics simmering just beneath the surface of the presidential race.
Donald Trump talks exclusively to CNN's Piers Morgan about Jermeiah Wright and the nasty campaign cycle ahead.
President Obama says Mitt Romney's record in business is "not a distraction" but central in the presidential election.
President Obama talks to the press after a NATO meeting in Chicago about ending the war in Afghanistan.
The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial will begin a third day of deliberations Tuesday after asking to take another look at a batch of exhibits from the four-week case.
When presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners Wednesday, he'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.
Vice President Biden gives Romney credit for creating wealth for Bain Capital but says that's not the president's job.
One of the three Drug Enforcement Administration agents under investigation for allegedly soliciting sex in Cartagena, Colombia, had a long-term relationship with a prostitute, potentially exposing himself to blackmail by drug cartels or other criminals, according to two government sources familiar with the investigation.
LZ Granderson says the storyline that the black and gay communities are separate is nonsense. Gays have always been a big part of black culture.