by Bob Allen | Sep 3, 2004 | News
A group monitoring abuses of religious freedom criticized the Baptist World Alliance for an article celebrating the growth of Christian churches in China. “The church in China has gone through persecution, suffering and imprisonment since 1949,” BWA...
by Bob Allen | Sep 2, 2004 | News
A Baptist congressman and co-sponsor of a proposed constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage has withdrawn from his re-election campaign after allegations that he used a telephone dating service to arrange liaisons with gay men. U.S. Rep. Ed Schrock, a...
by Bob Allen | Sep 1, 2004 | News
Former President Bill Clinton’s politically laden message Aug. 29 at a New York church “misused the pulpit to advance a personal agenda,” says a church-state watchdog group that recently blew the whistle on conservative churches for treading on IRS...
by Bob Allen | Aug 31, 2004 | News
Often the target of criticism from Southern Baptist Convention leaders during his two terms in the White House, former President Bill Clinton returned the favor Sunday, denouncing the denomination’s iVoteValues.com voter-registration initiative. Speaking from...
by Bob Allen | Aug 30, 2004 | News
A lesbian pastor recently married under Massachusetts law allowing gay couples to wed will keep her seat on an American Baptist minister’s council, at least for now. Cynthia Maybeck, pastor of Trinity Church of Northborough, Mass., a congregation dually aligned...
