by Bob Allen | Oct 12, 2006 | News
A Houston school district recently honored a Baptist pastor in large part for his support of a pastoral letter supporting public education issued this spring by the Baptist Center for Ethics. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District presented Ed Hogan, senior...
by Bob Allen | Oct 11, 2006 | News
Two weeks have passed since Christa Brown and two other survivors of clergy sex abuse hand-delivered a letter to Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., asking leaders to set up an independent panel to address the problem of sexual abuse by...
by Bob Allen | Oct 10, 2006 | News
The Mark Foley affair threatens an unholy alliance between the Religious Right and gay Republicans that helped re-elect President Bush in 2004. Religious conservatives blamed the former Republican congressman’s long-rumored but just-confirmed homosexuality for...
by Bob Allen | Oct 9, 2006 | News
Bad theology concerning the roles of men and women may contribute to domestic abuse, says a new study by the Church of England. “Domestic abuse is not simply an isolated series of events between a perpetrator and a victim but reflects the wider factors...
by Bob Allen | Oct 6, 2006 | News
Homeschool activists are raising alarm about a controversy in Germany involving church, state and school they fear could have long-term repercussions affecting parents’ rights to educate their children in the United States. In September the European Court of...