by Bob Allen | Oct 18, 2006 | News
There’s an immediate satisfaction in knowing you’ve helped a poor person in a crisis, said a Baptist ethicist, but nobody can do that every day. “That’s why I think development is even more exciting than relief,” said Joe Haag of the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 17, 2006 | News
Speakers including Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said Monday that scandals in Washington should not suppress “values voters” from going to the polls Nov. 7. “Yes, what Mark Foley did was wrong, but it is still important to go to the polls...
by Bob Allen | Oct 16, 2006 | News
In 1995 Dee Ann Miller wrote a column for “Baptists Today” offering 16 concrete suggestions about how Baptists could better cope with problems of sexual abuse and misconduct by ministers. Eleven years later, she says, except for minor editorial changes,...
by Bob Allen | Oct 13, 2006 | News
The use of “wedge issues” by the Christian right to create a politics of polarization may win elections but does nothing to solve the nation’s problems, says former U.S. Senator John Danforth. Danforth, an ordained Episcopal priest, also...
by Bob Allen | Oct 13, 2006 | News
The former deputy director of President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives says in a new book the office was essentially a tax-payer funded political campaign for Republicans, and the White House used evangelical Christians for their votes,...
