by Bob Allen | Dec 5, 2005 | News
Nearly four in 10 Americans hold a negative view of Wal-Mart, and its public image is worse now than it was a year ago, according to poll released Thursday, encouraging groups seeking to organize workers and improve labor conditions inside the nation’s largest...
by Bob Allen | Dec 2, 2005 | News
Will Campbell–author, civil-rights activist and iconoclastic Baptist minister–denounced leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention as “soul molesters,” who have turned their back on Baptist principles like the separation of church and state, in...
by Bob Allen | Dec 1, 2005 | News
A Washington-based group on Monday filed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Focus on the Family should lose its tax-exempt status, because its founder, James Dobson, endorsed candidates for office. Citizens for Responsibility and...
by Bob Allen | Dec 1, 2005 | News
Christians need to recover an “authentic biblical patriarchy” to save families from encroaching feminism, a Southern Baptist theologian argued before the Evangelical Theological Society in mid-November. Russell Moore, theology dean and academic vice...
by Bob Allen | Nov 30, 2005 | News
End-times theology and support for Israel have undermined the Christian right’s founding vision of bringing about social change through political involvement, says a veteran leader of a controversial movement known as Christian Reconstructionism. Popularized in...