by Bob Allen | Oct 25, 2005 | News
A Baptist association in South Carolina averted a public battle over gay marriage when its executive committee reversed an earlier recommendation to remove a church whose pastor created controversy by testifying before legislators opposing a constitutional amendment...
by Bob Allen | Oct 24, 2005 | News
The “Christian Exodus” has begun, albeit slowly, with a handful of families moving to South Carolina in hopes of leading thousands of other evangelicals to relocate and establish what founders envision as a “constitutionally limited government...
by Bob Allen | Oct 21, 2005 | News
An African-American pastor who brought aid to a Red Cross shelter in Atlanta says he was rejected because, unlike the Southern Baptist Convention, his church didn’t have exclusive rights to serve food. According to the Los Angeles Times, Pastor Timothy McDonald...
by Bob Allen | Oct 21, 2005 | News
A third Baptist World Aid volunteer team left Wednesday to assist earthquake victims in Pakistan, the relief agency reported Friday. The team took $30,000 to establish a camp in Bagh, one of the hardest hit towns in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, where relief...
by Bob Allen | Oct 20, 2005 | News
A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking Georgia’s controversial voter-ID law, saying it amounts to a poll tax and is ineffective in combating voter fraud. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy of Rome, Ga., is a first-round...
