by Bob Allen | Dec 28, 2004 | News
A Baptist minister and father of Canada’s socialized medicine was named “the Greatest Canadian” in a contest run by Canadian public television. Tommy Douglas, who died in 1986, served five terms as premier of Saskatchewan, forming North...
by Bob Allen | Dec 28, 2004 | News
The Missouri Baptist Convention will reportedly be asked to amend a $2.75 million contract of sale for its office building to ensure that county taxpayers will not have to pay for any removal of asbestos or to get out of a 20-year lease with a convention agency that...
by Bob Allen | Dec 21, 2004 | News
This year will go down as the fourth-hottest year on record, and the last 10 years are among the warmest since record-keeping began in 1861, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization reported last week. The global mean surface temperature dropped...
by Bob Allen | Dec 20, 2004 | News
A lawsuit alleging religious discrimination deep in the Bible Belt proves Southern Baptist leaders were wrong to oppose a resolution this summer calling for an exodus from public schools, says the statement’s co-author. Lawyers in Plano, Texas, filed a...
by Bob Allen | Dec 16, 2004 | News
Buoyed by success in bringing traditional moral values to bear in the last election, some conservative evangelicals are now turning to rescuing Christmas from “political correctness.” The California-based Committee to Save Merry Christmas is calling for a...
