by Bob Allen | Apr 11, 2006 | News
A British Baptist newspaper and a community weekly scooped major media in securing interviews with freed hostage Norman Kember. Kember, 74, has shunned film producers, playwrights and the national press vying for rights to tell the story. But he granted an exclusive...
by Bob Allen | Apr 10, 2006 | News
With at least 27 states considering laws to ban or restrict picketing at soldiers’ funerals, Fred Phelps’ notorious Westboro Baptist Church has found a new target, protesting at military hospitals treating troops seriously wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan....
by Bob Allen | Apr 7, 2006 | News
With searing pain and blood draining from a rotten tooth, a teenager in Owensboro, Ky., was taken home by his school nurse. The tooth had to come out, but the youth had no insurance. The local dentist would not take his state medical card for an extraction, because...
by Bob Allen | Apr 7, 2006 | News
With a growing movement in the Southern Baptist Convention encouraging parents to homeschool their children or put them in Christian schools, the time has come for Baptists who are friends of public education to also be heard, a Baptist ethicist told teachers Thursday...
by Bob Allen | Apr 6, 2006 | News
A year after coming to lead a highly touted center for science and theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, intelligent design advocate William Dembski is reportedly leaving to accept a teaching post at another Southern Baptist Convention seminary. Baptist...
