by Bob Allen | Feb 23, 2007 | News
After sheltering about 800 people left homeless by last summer’s Israeli bombing raids of Lebanon, Baptists there are now working on plans to help Iraqi refugees who have fled to neighboring Syria. According to the British newspaper The Baptist Times, Nabil...
by Bob Allen | Feb 22, 2007 | News
The wife of a Southern Baptist seminary president says women who oppose abortion should think twice before using birth control pills. Dorothy Patterson, professor of theology in woman’s studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and wife of President...
by Bob Allen | Feb 21, 2007 | News
A lengthy discussion Tuesday about clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention was long on criticism of tactics used by a victims’ advocacy group to draw attention to their cause and short on specifics about how the nation’s largest Protestant...
by Bob Allen | Feb 20, 2007 | News
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee were scheduled to discuss the denomination’s response to sexual abuse by clergy in a work group session this morning. A proposed agenda item for a 9:30 a.m. meeting of the bylaws work group is...
by Bob Allen | Feb 19, 2007 | News
A national support group formed amid the Catholic Church’s cover-up of abusive priests planned today to canvass members of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee seeking action to protect children against sexual predators posing as Baptist...