by Bob Allen | Nov 16, 2006 | News
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina adopted one of the strongest anti-gay policies of an American church body, authorizing leaders to investigate credible reports that individual churches act to endorse or affirm homosexuals. The 1.2 million-member,...
by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2006 | News
Support for Israel and reports that Iran is pushing for nuclear weapons have galvanized conservative Christians into a political force that will be hard to ignore. That’s according to a Tuesday New York Times story about white evangelicals, making up about a...
by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2006 | News
Southern Baptists in North and South Dakota passed a resolution decrying teaching contrary to “traditional Judeo-Christian values” in public schools and encouraged churches to aid parents in choosing educational alternatives that ensure their...
by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2006 | News
Though he is an avowed agnostic, author Robert Lanham was having second thoughts in an e-mail interview following last week’s mid-term elections. “Maybe God is in control after all!” Lanham author of The Sinner’s Guide to the Evangelical Right,...
by Bob Allen | Nov 14, 2006 | News
Jesus’ command to his followers to be salt and light requires presence, perseverance and paying heed to “prophetic pioneers,” the president of the Baptist World Alliance said at a September Micah Challenge Conference in Chang Mai, Thailand. The Micah...
