by Bob Allen | Feb 12, 2006 | News
Phil Strickland, who worked with Texas Baptists’ ethics, public policy and religious-liberty agency for nearly 40 years, died Feb. 11. Strickland, 64, battled cancer for many years. In recent months it developed into pneumonia. He refused to consider retirement,...
by Bob Allen | Feb 10, 2006 | News
A new report says Senate Majority Leader and likely presidential contender Bill Frist slipped into a defense-appropriation bill–without knowledge of a bi-partisan committee that had already allotted all crucial military spending–a provision protecting drug...
by Bob Allen | Feb 9, 2006 | News
Eighty-six evangelicals broke ranks with religious-right kingpins including James Dobson and Charles Colson and urged the Bush administration to limit carbon-dioxide emissions to battle global warming. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.,...
by Bob Allen | Feb 8, 2006 | News
A new policy requiring that Southern Baptist missionaries be baptized in a church that “practices believer’s baptism by immersion alone” is being defended by a seminary professor and pastor associated with a largely discredited view identifying...
by Bob Allen | Feb 7, 2006 | News
An International Mission Board trustee under fire for blogging about internal politicking among Southern Baptist leaders has rewritten a December blog that attacked “crusading conservatives,” using softer and less-militant terms. Wade Burleson, a trustee...
