by Bob Allen | Feb 6, 2004 | News
Growing up in a New York City barrio and Miami, Cuban-born Miguel De La Torre spent many of his formative years living on the margins of society. But it was only after becoming a successful businessman turned seminarian that he learned to read the Bible “from...
by Bob Allen | Feb 3, 2004 | News
North American Mission Board officials defended inviting a Catholic speaker to a conference aimed at helping college students and young professionals merge faith with daily life. Howard Roszak of Paisley, Fla., wrote a letter to the editor published Jan. 8 in the...
by Bob Allen | Jan 30, 2004 | News
Southern Baptist leaders don’t need to look for heresy in the Baptist World Alliance. It’s right under their noses in the form of fundamentalism, suggests a former seminary professor and longtime BWA leader, now a pastor in Australia. Thorwald Lorenzen,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 29, 2004 | News
Clergy are coming to the aid of striking grocery workers in Southern California, preaching that affordable health insurance is a moral issue. Religious groups have joined 70,000 striking grocers with “walking prayer” to picket lines in the Los Angeles...
by Bob Allen | Jan 28, 2004 | News
The “conservative resurgence” continues to gain ground in Baptist state conventions, according to a fundamentalist editor analyzing developments in 41 state and regional bodies affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. “With the passing of...
