by Bob Allen | Oct 5, 2006 | News
Criticism of disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley has been muted from the Religious Right, amid concern the scandal might hinder recent efforts to get out the Christian vote for Republican candidates in midterm elections Nov. 7. Gary Bauer of American Values said...
by Bob Allen | Oct 4, 2006 | News
For many Baptists, the front line of attacking global poverty is rapid response to natural and manmade disasters. “All of us are drawn to the relief aid,” Paul Montacute, director of Baptist World Aid, says in a new global-poverty resource produced by the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 4, 2006 | News
The Tennessee Baptist Convention has sued Belmont University under a 1951 agreement that the school would return gifts from the TBC–an estimated $58 million to date–should the state’s Baptists ever lose the right to elect Belmont’s board of...
by Bob Allen | Oct 3, 2006 | News
American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.’s General Board will vote in November on a recommendation to sell the denomination’s headquarters building in Valley Forge, Pa. American Baptist News Service reported last week that the General Board’s Executive...
by Bob Allen | Oct 3, 2006 | News
A Web-based campaign started last month to organize Christian Democratic voters on Monday issued an open letter of moral outrage over reports that GOP leaders knew former Rep. Mark Foley (F-Fla.) sent sexually explicit e-mails to underage House pages but did nothing...
