by Bob Allen | Jan 30, 2006 | News
A majority of International Mission Board trustees–who succeeded last fall in passing controversial personnel policy changes against use of private “prayer language” and tightening baptism requirements for missionaries–may have been aided by an...
by Bob Allen | Jan 27, 2006 | News
Building on a Southern Baptist Convention resolution urging parents to remove their children from public schools that promote homosexuality, the denomination’s publishing house is seeking to make inroads into a growing homeschool market. “I can say...
by Bob Allen | Jan 25, 2006 | News
Lots of churches are involved in fighting AIDS in Africa, while a more rampant and deadly disease–malaria–goes largely unnoticed, says Charles “T” Thomas, coordinator of the Cooperating Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma. Malaria is something that...
by Bob Allen | Jan 25, 2006 | News
In what could prove to be a textbook case of the adage “hard cases make bad law,” at least nine states are brushing aside First Amendment concerns to consider bills outlawing protests at funerals of American soldiers. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2006 | News
The unofficial publisher of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is discontinuing Sunday school curriculum for children and preschoolers, saying not enough churches use the material to justify what it costs to produce it. David Cassady, executive vice president and...
