by Bob Allen | Mar 17, 2005 | News
Sales of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life catapulted after the book was credited with helping lead to the surrender of the suspect in an Atlanta shooting rampage. On Sunday evening, the day former hostage Ashley Smith told a press conference that reading an...
by Bob Allen | Mar 17, 2005 | News
Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, was diagnosed last week with acute leukemia. He is undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Gary Burton, vice chairman of BCE’s board of directors, asked fellow board...
by Bob Allen | Mar 17, 2005 | News
Longtime Baptist peace activist Carman Sharp died Monday at a nursing home in Louisville, Ky. He was 87. As pastor of Louisville’s Deer Park Baptist Church from 1961 to 1984, Sharp was active in social causes in the community. He marched for open housing...
by Bob Allen | Mar 16, 2005 | News
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is changing the way it will train ministers to deal with the needs of hurting parishioners. After decades of integrating secular psychology and biblical training in a course of study known as “pastoral care,” the...
by Bob Allen | Mar 16, 2005 | News
A man who went on a rampage last Saturday, killing seven members of a suburban Milwaukee congregation meeting in a hotel before committing suicide, belonged to an unusual, cult-like denomination that fosters a sense of “apocalyptic paranoia” with a...
