by Bob Allen | Feb 28, 2007 | News
The U.S. Supreme Court today hears arguments in the first legal challenge to President Bush’s creation of White House and cabinet offices for faith-based initiatives. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit in 2004 claiming the...
by Bob Allen | Feb 27, 2007 | News
The March cover story of Jerry Falwell’s National Liberty Journal says the world may be on the brink of a major war foretold in the Bible as a precursor to the return of Christ. The story, headlined “Are We on the Precipice of War in Iran?” by...
by Bob Allen | Feb 26, 2007 | News
A former pastor and Southern Baptist Convention leader arrested a year ago in a gay-sex sting operation shouldn’t be punished, because the act he proposed to an undercover police officer in Oklahoma City isn’t against the law, his attorney said in a court...
by Bob Allen | Feb 26, 2007 | News
The day Southern Baptist Convention leaders discussed in Nashville, Tenn., how well the nation’s second-largest faith group is handling the problem of clergy sex abuse, a congregation in South Carolina was shocked to learn its pastor was arrested for allegedly...
by Bob Allen | Feb 23, 2007 | News
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Chicago office received two letters from a Southern Baptist Convention official in September but didn’t forward them to the intended recipients, the group said Thursday. That was after a SNAP representative...