by Bob Allen | Jul 21, 2004 | News
Baylor University’s president could face a third vote on his leadership in less than a year this week, and this time his opponents say they have enough votes to fire him, Texas media are reporting. Will Davis, chairman of Baylor’s board of regents, said he...
by Bob Allen | Jul 20, 2004 | News
Jerry Falwell told a fellow minister on a national radio program that he isn’t really an evangelical because he isn’t voting for George W. Bush. Falwell, pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., appeared July 13 on National Public Radio to...
by Bob Allen | Jul 19, 2004 | News
A church-state watchdog group reported Jerry Falwell to the Internal Revenue Service, saying the influential Southern Baptist pastor broke the law by using his tax-exempt organization to endorse President Bush for re-election. Barry Lynn, executive director of...
by Bob Allen | Jul 16, 2004 | News
A call to unify Baptists by reciting the Apostles’ Creed at a global gathering next year is proving divisive for some. “Fundamentalists are not the only creedalists within the Baptist camp,” Bruce Prescott of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists wrote in a...
by Bob Allen | Jul 16, 2004 | News
A year and a day after his unanimous election to head American Baptists’ international mission enterprise, Hector M. Cortez found himself out of a job. American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., Board of International Ministries voted June 25 in executive session to...
