by Bob Allen | Jun 27, 2006 | News
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. National Ministries has voted to divest its Common Investment Fund of corporations doing business in Sudan. Friday’s unanimous vote by the finance committee of the board overseeing American Baptist mission and ministry...
by Bob Allen | Jun 26, 2006 | News
After viewing a documentary film about Christian acquiescence to and support for Nazi Germany in the 1930s, an audience member noted a startling parallel. “I haven’t heard us say anything about the war we’re currently involved with from our...
by Bob Allen | Jun 26, 2006 | News
“Rolling Stone” magazine has published a 5,000-word investigative story accusing the Bush administration of carrying out a “secret campaign” to deny global warming aimed at misleading the public and to forestall any mandatory limits on...
by Bob Allen | Jun 23, 2006 | News
The head of America’s leading ecumenical group said Christians can learn to live together around values that Jesus taught: peace, poverty, respect for Planet Earth, people’s rights and commitment to pluralism. “We are the leaders we have been waiting...
by Bob Allen | Jun 22, 2006 | News
More women are serving as Baptist pastors and co-pastors than at any time in history, but statistically the vast majority of even progressive churches have not yet opened their pulpits to females, according to an inaugural “State of Women in Baptist Life”...
