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...
by Bob Allen | Sep 30, 2005 | News
Former Reagan administration education secretary Bill Bennett refused to back down from comments widely criticized as racist. Bennett, a popular social commentator with the religious right, questioned accuracy of a study that suggested legal abortion had reduced the...
by Bob Allen | Sep 29, 2005 | News
Atlanta hostage hero Ashley Smith, who won the trust of fugitive and murder suspect Brian Nichols by reading to him from Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life,” reveals in a new book that she also offered and gave her captor drugs during a...
by Bob Allen | Sep 28, 2005 | News
A Southern Baptist official who claimed theological justification to invade Iraq six months before the war now says he views it as a continuation of the First Gulf War. “For me, the Iraq war was a continuation of 1991, when we resisted the invasion of...
by Bob Allen | Sep 27, 2005 | News
Two Baptists were among 16 Jewish and Christian leaders returning Friday from a week-long “mission of peace” to Israel and Palestine. John Roberts, a past president of the Alliance of Baptists, was among a delegation of eight Christian denominations and...