by Bob Allen | Jan 7, 2006 | News
Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral-concerns agency for a tumultuous 27 years spanning from the civil-rights movement of the 1960s to the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination in the 1980s, died Saturday after an apparent heart...
by Bob Allen | Jan 6, 2006 | News
Televangelist Pat Robertson said Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon–fighting for his life following a stroke–is being punished by God. Sharon, 77, suffered brain damage from a stroke and ensuing cerebral hemorrhage, Ha’aretz reported...
by Bob Allen | Jan 6, 2006 | News
A politically active Southern Baptist pastor from Oklahoma was arrested Tuesday night and charged with offering to engage in a lewd act with a police officer posing as a male prostitute. Lonnie Latham, 59, senior pastor of <South Tulsa Baptist Church, was one of...
by Bob Allen | Jan 5, 2006 | News
A series of commercials touting Southern Baptists’ ministries to “the least of these” blanketed much of the Bible belt during prime-time college football bowl games this week. An ad developed by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee...
by Bob Allen | Jan 2, 2006 | News
A judge’s decision banning the teaching of intelligent design in a Dover, Pa., school district should convince Christian parents to remove their children from public schools, conservative columnist Cal Thomas wrote last week. The Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District...
