by Bob Allen | Jun 10, 2008 | News
A Texas Baptist church and its pastor have reportedly settled a lawsuit with a woman who claimed the minister molested, raped and got her pregnant when she was a minor. The Denton Record-Chronicle reported Sunday that Debbie Vasquez, 47, dropped a lawsuit she filed in...
by Bob Allen | Jun 10, 2008 | News
A former Southern Baptist Convention president warned of denominational decline in a national gathering of pastors. “We have reached a place that our spiritual forefathers feared,” Jimmy Draper, former head of LifeWay Christian Resources, said Monday at...
by Bob Allen | Jun 9, 2008 | News
Senators on Friday blocked a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions linked to global warming. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, sponsored by Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Joseph Lieberman, ID-Conn, fell short of a required three-fifths majority to...
by Bob Allen | Jun 6, 2008 | News
The newest textbook controversy isn’t about Harry Potter or “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” but a volume that has divided public schools for 150 years–the Bible. The Tennessee Legislature recently passed a bill authorizing the state board...
by Bob Allen | Jun 5, 2008 | News
Anti-immigration policies like an Oklahoma bill cracking down on illegal aliens are costly, two economists said in an interview aired recently on a Baptist radio program. Passed in 2007, the “Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act,” HB 1804, is the...
