by Bob Allen | Feb 2, 2005 | News
Officials of the now defunct Baptist Foundation of Arizona, accused of bilking investors out of $570 million, won’t stand trial in February. A judge in late December postponed until Aug. 3 the trial for four ex-officials charged with fraud, racketeering and...
by Bob Allen | Feb 1, 2005 | News
Long known for promoting its image as a family friendly business, Wal-Mart has broadened its own definition of “immediate family” to include some same-sex couples. According to news reports, Wal-Mart disclosed its statement of ethics last week in a...
by Bob Allen | Jan 31, 2005 | News
Motivated by love for the Bible and a sense of personal calling, Judy Baker earned a master-of-divinity degree from Southern Seminary in 1986, hoping to continue in a pastoral or teaching ministry. But recognizing her Southern Baptist Convention was moving in the...
by Bob Allen | Jan 28, 2005 | News
An estimated 10,000 African-American Baptist leaders gathered this week in Nashville, Tenn., for a historic joint board meeting of four major denominations. “You cannot microwave ox tails,” Suzan Johnson Cook of Bronx Christian Fellowship in Bronx, N.Y.,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 28, 2005 | News
The presidents of America’s four major black Baptist denominations on Friday issued a joint statement opposing the war in Iraq, the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General and efforts to divert public funds to private schools. The leaders said they...
