Study tracks more vulgarity on TV
___By Tom Strode
___SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
___WASHINGTON (BP)--Prime-time television has produced a dramatic increase in sexual references and foul language in the last decade, according to a new study.
___The report, which compared the first four weeks of prime-time programming in the 1989-1990 season with the first four weeks of 1999-2000, found, among other things, foul language increased more than 550 percent in its frequency on a per-hour basis, and the curse words used were far more vulgar in 1999 than in 1989.
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Faith & farm crisis march hand-in-hand
___By Kevin Eckstrom
___Religion News Service
___WASHINGTON (RNS)--Faced with the worst farm crisis in 20 years, more than 2,000 farmers gathered in Washington to rally against the financial and spiritual crises facing rural America. Unlike the natural disasters of the past, farmers say the current crisis is entirely man-made.
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NAMB partners with Falwell
to start 'flagship' church
___CHICAGO--The Southern Baptist Convention will give Jerry Falwell's Virginia church $250,000 over the next two years to help start a new "flagship" Baptist congregation in suburban Chicago.
___Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church will match the $125,000 per year allocation from the SBC's North American Mission Board, creating an instant pool of half a million dollars for the church start.
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Navy chaplains allege discrimination
___By Adelle Banks
___Religion News Service
___WASHINGTON (RNS)--The U.S. Navy is under fire from members of an evangelical segment of its chaplains corps who claim they have been discriminated against in favor of liturgical chaplains such as Roman Catholics and Lutherans and been treated as "second class" citizens.
___Eleven "non-liturgical Christian" Navy chaplains filed a class-action suit March 17 against the Navy alleging a range of discrimination, including "illegal religious quotas" for promotions and career opportunities for chaplains and a "pervasive climate of bias, animosity and deceit toward non-liturgical Christian Navy chaplains."
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 Odessa Pastor Earnest Easley's battle with cancer taught him the extent of God's protecting hand, and the danger of assuming that you will always have a "tomorrow."
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