by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
President Bush’s faith-based initiative, launched as a centerpiece of his administration’s domestic agenda, recently passed its five-year anniversary without notice. A few weeks after he took office in January 2001, the president established the White...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
A trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board has started a Web log to counter criticism that the board acted improperly in calling for removal of a fellow trustee. Jerry Corbaley, an IMB trustee from McKinleyville, Calif., launched his blog...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
Best known for drawing multiple thousands of people to high-profile worship services, one secret to the success of the megachurch, the dominant model for church growth in the 1990s, experts agree, is the less-noticed gathering of smaller “cell groups” for...
by Bob Allen | Mar 3, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist seminary professor who challenged a World Council of Churches leader for saying the Holy Spirit “reaches in mysterious ways to people of all faiths” is guilty of placing limits on God, a U.S. ecumenical leader says. Russell Moore, senior...
by Bob Allen | Mar 2, 2006 | News
A Southern Baptist professor quoted in Baptist Press denounced an ecumenical body that includes nearly all the world’s Orthodox and numerous Protestant denominations as a “boutique of paganism in Christian garb” with “the spirit of...