Baptist Peace Fellowship Director Resigns

Gary Percesepe is leaving after two years as coordinating director of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America to become dean of the McMaster School for Advancing Humanity at Defiance College. BPFNA President Leslie Withers announced Percesepe’s...

Sexual Politics Mar Meeting of Teacher Union

The American Family Association is reporting that the National Education Association has voted to endorse gay marriage, while officials with the teacher union maintain the group has no position on the subject and accuse the religious right of trying to create unrest...

HealthSouth CEO Turned Evangelist Convicted of Bribery

More than a year after he was acquitted on charges of accounting fraud, former HealthSouth CEO turned religious broadcaster Richard Scrushy was convicted last week of a bribery scheme along with a former governor of Alabama. A federal jury in Montgomery, Ala.,...

Georgia Voter ID Bill Passed in Time for Primary

Georgia’s Republican-controlled state election board has decided to require voters to present government-issued ID cards in order to cast ballots in primary elections only weeks away. The U.S. Justice Department cleared a Republican-backed voter ID law June 28...