by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2005 | News
A popular Web site that argues America has forsaken its Christian roots contains historical inaccuracies and distortions of quotations from the Founding Fathers, two First Amendment scholars contend in an editorial in the most recent Journal of Church and State....
by Bob Allen | Nov 15, 2005 | News
Three-time Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, whose 1979 election sparked a revolutionary leadership change in America’s largest Protestant denomination, died early Tuesday of complications from cancer. Rogers, 74, was hospitalized Nov. 3....
by Bob Allen | Nov 14, 2005 | News
To live together, various faith communities must learn to celebrate what they share in common instead of just focusing on differences, a moderate Baptist leader told an interfaith gathering last month in Atlanta. Daniel Vestal, coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist...
by Bob Allen | Nov 14, 2005 | News
The strongest opposition in the United States to President Bush’s “roadmap for peace” in Israel comes, ironically, from some of his strongest supporters–the religious right. Charles Kimball, author of When Religion Becomes Evil, said he first...
by Bob Allen | Nov 11, 2005 | News
The war in Iraq turned into personal tragedy on Nov. 7 for College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C., when it buried a 21-year-old Marine killed in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Andrew David Russoli was one of three Marines, all assigned to Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd...
