by Bob Allen | Sep 15, 2005 | News
After arguing about homosexuality for more than a decade, American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. now appears headed toward schism. Directors of the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest voted Sept. 8 to begin steps to sever ties with the national body...
by Bob Allen | Sep 15, 2005 | News
The Tennessee Baptist Convention Executive Board on Tuesday rejected a proposal by Belmont University trustees to include non-Baptist Christians on their board. Trustees of the Nashville-based school in August submitted a proposed covenant to allow up to 40 percent of...
by Bob Allen | Sep 14, 2005 | News
Christianity’s role in the Holocaust should be a cautionary tale for the church today, panelists and audience members said Tuesday at a screening of a new documentary titled “Theologians Under Hitler.” “Being on the morally right side of...
by Bob Allen | Sep 13, 2005 | News
Texas Gov. Rick Perry remained mum after sharing the podium at two get-out-the-vote rallies with a black Southern Baptist preacher who wondered if God sent Hurricane Katrina “to purify our nation.” “I’m raising the question,” Dwight...
by Bob Allen | Sep 12, 2005 | News
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the southeastern United States cut two ways. It rallied Americans in showings of compassion and national unity rivaling, if not surpassing, those following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet it also exposed the...
