by Bob Allen | Feb 21, 2006 | News
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., site of a racially motivated bombing that killed four African-American girls in 1963, was declared a National Historic Landmark on Monday. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the church,...
by Bob Allen | Feb 21, 2006 | News
Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch on Monday termed recent fires at Baptist churches in Alabama “theological terrorism” and said he is surprised and doesn’t understand why the media isn’t making more of the story. “These...
by Bob Allen | Feb 20, 2006 | News
The former head of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship says in a forthcoming book he wishes the group had long ago formed a new denomination, because the Southern Baptist Convention he once identified with no longer exists. Cecil Sherman, the first paid coordinator of...
by Bob Allen | Feb 17, 2006 | News
Speaking engagements of North American Mission Board President Bob Reccord appear aimed at selling his own books and personal ministry instead of promoting home missions, an article in a Baptist newspaper suggests this week. That’s just one of a series of tough...
by Bob Allen | Feb 16, 2006 | News
A global Baptist leader said Muslim reaction to newspaper cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad should prompt discussion about how the media and arts treat all religions–including Christianity. Baptist World Alliance President David Coffey told The Baptist...
