Baptist

Westboro Baptist Church defector struggles with her past

2013-05-20 07:00:00

TOPEKA, Kan. — The house was empty,�just as Libby Phelps had planned. Slipping inside that�afternoon four years ago,�she felt as if her heart would burst�through her chest. She peeked through the curtains, terrified that her aunt and uncle�...

Baseball: Tuesday's Southern Section playoff scores and updated pairings

2013-05-14 20:33:21

Softball: Tuesday's Southern Section playoff scores and updated pairings

2013-05-14 20:44:01

Softball: Southern Section playoff pairings

2013-05-13 11:23:46

Birmingham, Ala., embraces its complex history

2013-04-14 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When I told friends I was planning a trip to Birmingham, the reaction was universal. "Alabama?" one asked. "On purpose?" I shared their skepticism, viewing the travel literature with the jaundiced eye of a longtime Angeleno...

On Sunday, faith and freedom

2013-04-07 00:00:00

According to a survey conducted by the Bertelsmann Religion Foundation Monitor, the United States is the most religious nation in the industrialized world. The Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey found that 88% of the Americans it surveyed are...

Baseball/Softball: Monday scores

2013-03-19 08:52:29

Former Oklahoma QB Steve Davis, star in '70s, dies in plane crash

2013-03-18 11:35:00

When a plane crashed into a neighborhood in South Bend, Ind., on Sunday, it took the lives of two men, one of whom was former� University of Oklahoma star quarterback Steve Davis, officials said Monday morning. Davis, 60, and Wesley Caves, 58, were both...

PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge

2013-02-25 00:00:00

Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...

Daum: Vassar vs. Westboro

2013-02-21 00:00:00

The Westboro Baptist Church, best known for picketing military funerals because God hates a country that tolerates gay people (or something like that), is picketing my alma mater next week. Vassar College, a small liberal arts school in New York's...

Tim Tebow cancels appearance at controversial Dallas church

2013-02-21 10:29:00

New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow has decided to cancel his appearance at a Dallas church that is led by a pastor, Robert Jeffress, who has been criticized for his remarks about gays and other faiths. Tebow sent out a series of tweets Thursday...

Christ on the cross: a violent image as an act of commiseration

2013-02-15 12:00:00

No image I know in the history of Western painting is more brutal than the crucifixion scene in the Isenheim Altarpiece. Its violence would make Quentin Tarantino blush. When German Renaissance artist Matthias Gr�newald first set brush to limewood panel...

People gather before a Southern Christian Leadership Conference rally at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

2013-05-24 13:50:29

Pastor Mark Q. Anderson of the Second Baptist Church in El Centro speaks to his congregation during the 100th anniversary celebration held Sunday.

2012-10-07 00:00:00

Pastor Randy Battey talks about the recent remodeling of the sanctuary at Calvary Baptist Church.

2012-09-07 21:39:00