Tuesday Roundup
Lots of interesting tidbits out there today--
Associated Baptist Press details the important Walter Shurden speech given to BJC supporters at a luncheon during the recent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship meeting in Atlanta.
And at the Seventh-Day Adventists meeting, "Liberty" magazine editor Lincoln Steed spoke of the dangers of failing to be vigilant about religious liberty.
In the Lexington Herald-Leader, a substantial article about the controversy surrounding the state's funding of a pharmacy school in a Baptist college.
The Washington Post reports that city officials have re-thought their objection to a Ten Commandments display across from the Supreme Court building and are no longer requesting its removal.
In international news, a report on Itay's "Aid to the Church in Need" conference begins this way: "Guaranteeing religious freedom is a condition for the growth of democracy and economic development." And in the Boston Globe, a Reuters story outlines the trials of a Malaysian woman who dared convert from Islam to Christianity.