by Bob Allen | Sep 12, 2006 | News
A week after refusing post a sermon on its Web site containing remarks about speaking in tongues the administration viewed as theologically suspect, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary gave its blessing to a Sept. 6 speaker who described Islam as a religion of...
by Bob Allen | Sep 12, 2006 | News
“Is this the beginning of World War III?” queries the cover story in the September issue of Jerry Falwell’s “National Liberty Journal.” “The crisis in the Middle East is escalating beyond imagination,” writes Edward Hindson,...
by Bob Allen | Sep 8, 2006 | News
The president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary took exception to a newspaper’s reference to his decision to censor a chapel sermon that included a reference to speaking on tongues as a “rebuke” of a seminary trustee. At the same time, the...
by Bob Allen | Sep 6, 2006 | News
An Associated Press story last week profiled a movement among evangelical Christians to convince parents to withdraw their children from public schools. “The courts say no creationism, no prayer in public schools,” the story quoted Roger Moran, co-sponsor...
by Bob Allen | Sep 6, 2006 | News
A sixth defendant in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona criminal trial pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony charges of fraudulent schemes and artifices. According to terms of a plea bargain proposed by prosecutors, former BFA board member Lawrence Dwain Hoover could be...
