by Bob Allen | Mar 7, 2008 | News
“I’m here today because nobody calls me ‘chicken,'” guest preacher Michelle McClendon said in a sermon Feb. 3 at Second Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. One of 70 women filling Baptist pulpits for the second annual Martha Stearns Marshall Day...
by Bob Allen | Mar 7, 2008 | News
Unless a 21st century Moses comes down from Stone Mountain with a new commandment about global warming, don’t expect the majority of Southern Baptist clergy to tackle the issue of human-induced climate change. Scientific consensus simply isn’t enough to...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2008 | News
Southern Baptist Convention leader Richard Land claims he didn’t know he was using a word that some consider crude or obscene when he called Sen. Charles Schumer a “schmuck.” “I apologize for my ignorance of that fact,” the head of the...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2008 | News
A judge ruled Tuesday that the Missouri Baptist Convention didn’t include enough protections when it incorporated Windermere Baptist Conference Center as a separate non-profit entity in 2000 to prevent Windermere from amending its articles of incorporation to...
by Bob Allen | Mar 5, 2008 | News
For the first time, more than one in every 100 Americans is behind bars, disproportionally affecting people of color and the young and competing for tax dollars with needed government programs like education. Those are findings of a study on incarceration rates...
