by Bob Allen | Oct 5, 2005 | News
Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will consider a preamble to the CBF constitution restoring references to Jesus Christ and the Great Commission dropped from a purpose statement this summer. At its June 30-July 1 General Assembly in Grapevine, Texas, the...
by Bob Allen | Oct 5, 2005 | News
Whether or not Bill Bennett’s offhand comment that aborting black babies would reduce the crime rate was racist, it was wrong. “[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down,” Bennett said on his radio program...
by Bob Allen | Oct 4, 2005 | News
A British Baptist leader welcomed the UK government’s announcement of a new “Commission on Integration” as “a good start” in moving toward a multicultural society, while challenging Baptist churches to do more to take a lead on the issue....
by Bob Allen | Oct 3, 2005 | News
Reacting to fundamentalism in Southern Baptist-influenced state conventions in Brazil, about 60 Brazilian Baptists have started an organization modeled after the Alliance of Baptists in the United States, paving the way for what one observer viewed as a “global...
by Bob Allen | Oct 3, 2005 | News
President Bush’s nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court is an evangelical Christian and longtime member of a Dallas church whose preaching pastor is arguably the most influential Church of Christ minister in the Southern...