by Bob Allen | Aug 25, 2006 | News
A number of celebrations from various theological perspectives are planned this fall around the 200th anniversary of a student-led prayer meeting that marked the beginning of America’s foreign missionary movement. Southern Baptists are seeking to capitalize on...
by Bob Allen | Aug 24, 2006 | News
If you’re reading this you can breathe a sigh of relief. It means the world didn’t end Aug. 22, as a number of conservative Web sites have speculated the last couple of weeks it might. It started not with some doomsday wacko, but with respected Princeton...
by Bob Allen | Aug 23, 2006 | News
Baptists today have largely abandoned a noble tradition of the separation of church and state in part because they have forgotten what it is like to be a religious minority, says the author of a new book critical of America’s Religious Right. Randall...
by Bob Allen | Aug 23, 2006 | News
A small-town Baptist church fight snowballed into an international news story after deacons fired an 81-year-old woman as a Sunday school teacher, purportedly because of her gender. After receiving a letter from First Baptist Church in Watertown, N.Y., that cited a...
by Bob Allen | Aug 22, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary president says a new study about women in ministry raises questions about the credibility of moderates who claim women’s ordination is a wedge issue separating them from fundamentalists in charge of the Southern Baptist Convention....
