by Bob Allen | Sep 1, 2005 | News
Southern Baptist Convention president Bobby Welch denounced a Baptist congregation picketing funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, pointing out it is not an SBC church and accusing it of “hate-filled activities.” Southern Baptist leaders have in the past...
by Bob Allen | Aug 31, 2005 | News
The senate of the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., Ministers Council has rejected a bylaw amendment designed to refuse seating to homosexuals. Cynthia Maybeck, pastor of Trinity Church of Northborough, Mass., a congregation dually aligned with the American Baptist...
by Bob Allen | Aug 31, 2005 | News
Americans increasingly view the Democratic Party as unfriendly toward religion, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press and Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Public impressions of the Democratic Party’s...
by Bob Allen | Aug 29, 2005 | News
A Baptist church famous for protesting events including Matthew Shepard’s funeral and various religious gatherings over the last decade with its distinctive message of “God Hates Fags” has a new target–the funerals of fallen soldiers. After...
by Bob Allen | Aug 26, 2005 | News
More Baptists identify themselves as Democrats than Republicans in a new poll, suggesting that various claims from Southern Baptist pulpits last year that a real Christian could not vote for Sen. John Kerry may have turned off as many voters as they turned out for...
