by Bob Allen | Nov 3, 2006 | News
The Missouri Baptist Convention passed a resolution Wednesday protesting “pro-homosexual” policies by Wal-Mart and urging the state’s Baptists to “exercise moral stewardship” in where they shop, a phrase leaders characterized as...
by Bob Allen | Nov 2, 2006 | News
Evangelical support for the war in Iraq has slipped sharply in the last month, according to a recent survey. A study released last Thursday by the Pew Research Center for The People & the Press found roughly six in 10 white evangelical Republicans (58 percent) now...
by Bob Allen | Nov 1, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist leader in Missouri believes Muslims are plotting to take over the United States, according to a newspaper report of the opening session of the Missouri Baptist Convention. “The real threat we are facing today is that Islam has a strategic plan...
by Bob Allen | Nov 1, 2006 | News
Three church planters received $1.3 million between 1999 and 2005 from the Baptist General Convention of Texas to start 258 churches in the Rio Grande Valley, only five of which appear to remain active, according to a five-month investigation into use of church funds...
by Bob Allen | Oct 31, 2006 | News
Jerry Falwell called high-profile allegations that a former pastor of a prominent independent Baptist church molested and raped numerous children over the course of decades a “bump in the road.” “When you hit a bump in the road–the pastor has...