by Bob Allen | Mar 20, 2008 | News
Meeting under protest in Panama City, Fla., leaders of Florida’s largest black Baptist organization pledged to use the 2006 death of a 14-year-old African-American youth at a boot-camp style detention center to inspire new programs aimed at keeping young men out...
by Bob Allen | Mar 19, 2008 | News
In a speech widely touted as one of the most important of his presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday denounced incendiary comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright but refused to disown his pastor of 20 years. “I can no more disown him than I can disown...
by Bob Allen | Mar 18, 2008 | News
The number of U.S. military killed in Iraq is closing in on 4,000 as this week marks the war’s fifth anniversary. On Saturday the Department of Defense announced the death of six soldiers supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, bringing the casualty total to...
by Bob Allen | Mar 17, 2008 | News
Southern Baptist Convention leader Richard Land apparently thought he had good reason for refusing to sign a recent statement by fellow Southern Baptists calling for action on global warming. He believes the Earth is getting colder. On the March 1 broadcast of the...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2008 | News
A prominent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church in Alabama has dismissed a popular minister of music under arrest on charges of child abuse and third-degree sex offense stemming from events alleged to have occurred several years ago in Maryland. Police in Hoover,...
