by Bob Allen | Mar 15, 2005 | News
First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., voted Sunday to join the Baptist General Association of Virginia and leave the Georgia Baptist Convention. The 321-16 vote followed a study by the church’s denominational relations committee and several weeks of “town...
by Bob Allen | Mar 15, 2005 | News
A Southern Baptist opponent of ecumenical dialogue has criticized a denominational leader for contradictory statements against joining one ecumenical group while telling a national magazine that he has more in common with the Catholic pope than with fellow Baptists...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2005 | News
A group of Catholic and evangelical scholars that has been in dialogue for more than a decade has issued a new statement condemning spiritual sloth. The statement, published in the Catholic journal First Things and the evangelical magazine Christianity Today, affirms...
by Bob Allen | Mar 11, 2005 | News
Children and teenagers are “multi-tasking,” using new media like computers, the Internet and video games without cutting back on old media like television, to pack in an equivalent of eight and a half hours a day of exposure to media. That’s...
by Bob Allen | Mar 10, 2005 | News
Opponents of capital punishment hailed last week’s Supreme Court decision that the execution of juveniles convicted of murder violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The 5-4 decision tossed out the...
