by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2007 | News
Former North American Mission Board head Bob Reccord says he hasn’t read a new insider book alleging mishandling of donor money at the Southern Baptist Convention agency, but what he has heard about it leaves him “saddened and grieved.”...
by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2007 | News
Facing waning public and political support, President George W. Bush pleaded with a Democratic Congress to give his plan to escalate the war in Iraq a chance in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. “This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the...
by Bob Allen | Jan 23, 2007 | News
Bellevue Baptist Church has terminated a minister whose admission of sexual misconduct put the suburban Memphis mega-church in the center of a scandal that has received national attention. Bellevue’s personnel committee voted Sunday to dismiss Paul Williams,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 23, 2007 | News
Vision America founder Rick Scarborough turned a “New Baptist Covenant” proposed by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton into a fund-raising pitch, calling it an effort to deceive Christians into believing the Bible is compatible with abortion,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 22, 2007 | News
A former Southern Baptist music minister convicted of sexual abuse of children in two states managed to move from church to church, despite background checks and a history of addiction to pornography. Shawn D. Davies, 33, pleaded guilty Nov. 20 in Missouri to 27...