by Bob Allen | Nov 22, 2005 | News
The House sponsor of Georgia’s controversial voter ID bill has fired back at a newspaper report implying race was part of her rationale. State Rep. Sue Burmeister, R-Augusta, sponsored the House version of a state law requiring voters at polling places to...
by Bob Allen | Nov 21, 2005 | News
A Baptist congressman is among Democrats pressuring the Bush administration to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. On Thursday Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a decorated Vietnam veteran and military hawk, stunned colleagues when he called for removing...
by Bob Allen | Nov 18, 2005 | News
A vaccine against cervical cancer, with potential to save the lives of 3,700 women in the United States and 250,000 worldwide each year, could become available as early as next year. It worries conservative Christian groups, however, who fear it might send an...
by Bob Allen | Nov 17, 2005 | News
National leaders of 21 Christian churches and church-related agencies on Monday signed a letter encouraging Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her active engagement in peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians. On Tuesday Rice, on her fourth visit to Israel...
by Bob Allen | Nov 16, 2005 | News
Not surprisingly, former President Jimmy Carter is finding few fans of his latest book among leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention. In Our Endangered Values, his 20th book, the 39th president of the United States bemoans changes in the nation’s largest...
