Planet Dixie
Land of happy slaves and gracious masters.
Preston Jones

Original Sin
Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham.
Laura L. Mitchell

Weblog: 'Ten Commandments Judge' Loses Appeal
"Bush promotes school vouchers, judge blocks Virginia's partial-birth abortion ban, aborted embryos may become mothers, and other articles from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Ultra Mega Weblog: Five Churches Attacked in Netherlands
Plus: Links to more than 422 (really!) other news articles and opinion pieces, including some not about how stupid evangelicals are.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Do the Wages of Sin Apply After Conversion?
Plus: Religious conservatives love Gonzalez as AG, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Ravi Zacharias, Rich Mouw Speak in Mormon Tabernacle
Plus: Couple attempts to sacrifice children at church altar, the new head of the Catholic bishops' conference, a focus on Dobson, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Living with Fundamentalists
Spirit and Flesh documents life in a Baptist church.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Fundamentally Personal
At The Shawmut River Baptist Church, worship and preaching are saturated with the familiar, the at-home.
An excerpt from Spirit and Flesh by James M. Ault, Jr.

Inventing Evangelicalism
No one was more pivotal to the emerging movement than Carl F.H. Henry
Timothy George

Corporate Thought Police
Growing pro-gay business agenda jeopardizes religious employees.
By John W. Kennedy

"Religious Freedom Can Be Ethnically Limited, Utah Judge Rules"
"Forgiving McVeigh, England's murdered vicar, and other stories from media around the world."
Ted Olsen

The End of Church Zoning Disputes?
By Religion News Service

Weblog: What Else Pat Robertson Said
Plus: World Vision teams with Ricky Martin, Halloween hit from both sides, TBN update, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: French Schools Ban Islamic Headscarves; U.S. Schools Practice Islam
"Court upholds Ohio's partial-birth abortion ban, library allows paintings of Jesus, and stories from online sources around the world"
Rob Moll

Quotation Marks
"Recent comments about politics, bias against Christians, and Pat Robertson's support of Charles Taylor"
Ted Olsen

A Poet Reads Darwin
Mark Walhout

The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: Recommended Resources
The Rise of Fundamentalism
Mark Galli

The Monkey Trial
The first trial of the century revealed a great divide separating American Christians.
David Goetz

Q & A: Bobby Welch
President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), on his five-week national bus tour, which ended October 7, to jump-start evangelism in the 16.3-million-member denomination. The SBC has experienced a four-year decline in baptisms.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Southern Baptist Surprise!
Why are so many African Americans attracted to a church that was once identified with white racism?
By Amy Green

Staying on Course
Southern Baptists reaffirm their conservative positions.
By Adelle M. Banks, RNS, in Indianapolis